In defence of Sanna Marin, Finland’s partying PM
Party politics is done somewhat differently in Finland. While Boris was hounded out in Westminster for some miserable looking cake…
Jeremy Clarkson should be the next host of University Challenge
The bad news of the week is that Jeremy Paxman is retiring from University Challenge. The worse is that most…
The Chinese spy ship and the dangers of debt-trap diplomacy
A Chinese spy ship that docked in Sri Lanka on Tuesday in defiance of Indian and western protests is the…
Spare a thought for the A level class of 2022
If you have an 18-year-old in your life, as I do, or even if you vaguely know of one, please…
A mild case of split portfolio disorder
As a one-time senior public servant, I find the debate over Scott Morrison’s supposed power seizure of separate ministries to…
China Rising: taking politics out of national security
[ This is part 4 of a series. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3 ] Part three of…
Good riddance to Liz Cheney
The Left is running the West – economically, culturally, and politically. Even when we have a right-wing national leader in…
Rain rain, go away!
The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite showed that the greatest methane emissions are from the tundra in Canada and Russia, and the…
ScoMo’s secret dysfunction
Revelations that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly had himself sworn in as minister in five key portfolios, namely: Treasury,…
Can Israelis trust the UN?
You probably think you’ve heard every story there is to hear about people getting fired over their tweets. Well, here’s…
Are genital checks inevitable?
Eighty-year-old Julie Jaman has been banned from her local YMCA swimming pool in Port Townsend, Washington, where she’s been a…
Northern Ireland is descending back into sectarianism
Nearly 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, the embers of sectarianism in Northern Ireland are still glowing bright. This…
Team Truss turns on each other at eco-hustings
The Tory leadership teams rolled into Belfast this afternoon, clad in metaphorical red, white and blue and eager to display…
Tony Blair’s Covid grift
Have we yet seen the end of Covid restrictions? It is tempting to think so. For many people, Covid and…
Has Scott Morrison become Australia’s Richard Nixon?
In May 1940, Winston Churchill was not only appointed Prime Minister but Minister for Defence. In doing so, Churchill ensured…
Finally, some justice for the infected blood scandal’s victims
Why has the greatest patient scandal in the history of the NHS rumbled on for so long before its victims…
Is Liz Cheney a ‘martyr’ to Republican values?
In perhaps the least surprising electoral result we’ll see in America this year, the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney lost to…
Is Germany afraid of China?
The German air force has taken off for its first deployment in the Indo-Pacific region. It will take part in…
Can inflation be brought under control?
That today’s inflation figures would come as an immense shock to anyone who has returned from a year in the…
Inflation hits double digits. Is it out of control?
Long gone are the days when politicians and experts dared to claim inflation was simply ‘transitory’. Now it’s hang-on-to-your-hats as…
In defence of Graeme Souness’ ‘man’s game’ comments
‘Language please, there are ladies present’, that was the kind of thing you would occasionally hear when some possibly overly…
Why the City made a mistake in writing off coal
For anyone tempted to believe warnings from Mark Carney and other City figures about ‘stranded assets’ in the fossil fuel…
The Guardian’s Truss attack falls flat
The sound of moralising was in the air this morning, as Steerpike emerged bleary-eyed from his hangover. Is it Sunday…
Is Keir Starmer a populist?
No one thinks of the careful, polite Keir Starmer as a populist hero. But his intervention in the fuel crisis…
RAF: the virtue of racism
Western civilisation routinely boasts about being the most ‘progressive’ and ‘intellectually evolved’ society in existence. A society, it appears, that…
