Sunak is running out of time
This could be the biggest week of the Tory leadership campaign: postal ballots will start arriving on members’ doormats in…
Should Apple snoop on your iPhone?
Should Apple use software to scan the photo library of every individual iPhone in search of images of child abuse?…
The National’s Anglo-bashing hypocrisy
Given the Scottish political establishment’s misty-eyed myth-making about Scottish nationalism — it’s civic! Joyous! Inclusive! — Mr Steerpike admires the…
Liz Truss’s critics are making the same mistakes as Reagan’s enemies
Admirers of one of America’s great modern historians sat up and paid attention when Liz Truss told the Times in…
Why can’t we enjoy England’s football win without politicising it?
Not everything has to be politicised all the time. Some things are just news. Often bad news, such as an…
Does Britain lack the minerals for green fight?
Amid all her remarks about tax cuts, freedom and, er, Don Revie, some of Liz Truss’s comments were overlooked on…
What does England’s victory mean for women’s football?
Well, thank goodness for that. Just as it seemed the England’s women’s football team might be about to extend the…
The trouble with Sunak’s tax promise
Rishi Sunak should have started his campaign offering a 4p cut to income tax, instead of focusing on a Cameronesque…
The ‘conversion therapy’ canard
In 2016, the Obama-Biden administration concluded that “the quality and strength of evidence” for medicalized gender transition was “low” and insufficient…
The worldwide working-class counterrevolution
Something is happening across the world right now, something that deserves more attention than it’s getting. First, to the Netherlands,…
Albanese copies Ardern, seeking to enshrine race in politics
At first, I was a surprised that it took our new Prime Minister little more than two months since his…
Canberra: where electricity is a luxury the poor can’t afford
‘Where do you go?’ They are all older women, retirees from the federal and territory public services, the ASO 5…
The Guardian slumps to the Left
Oh no… Woke flagship publication The Guardian (that doubles as a slightly-deflated life-raft for perpetually offended social justice warriors) has reported a…
Race, sex, and rugby
Sport has been an unlikely ground for the games of race, sex, and power to play out, but last week…
Remembering Gore Vidal
Fourteen years ago, my then boss, Matt d’Ancona sent me off to interview Gore Vidal. I’ll always be grateful to…
The French buy-out that explains Macron’s strategy
It’s a platitude that France and Britain are rivals and have been for centuries. But, since the 1904 Entente Cordiale,…
Will China blockade Taiwan?
Xi Jinping has made it very clear over the years that he is determined for China to reunite with Taiwan.…
Iran and Russia: the new Axis of Evil?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tehran last week brought attention to a growing partnership between Russia and Iran. The…
Don’t blame the unvaccinated
Deborah Birx was the White House Covid response coordinator under President Donald Trump. Jeffrey Tucker recently wrote a brutal takedown of…
Andrews doesn’t know when to leave
Political aspirations can often be read by having a look at whose bust dominates a politician’s personal office space. Winston…
We will win China’s war
In his 1966 book Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley noted that the Chinese communist regime in the 1950s was insanely aggressive.…
The social mobility case against grammar schools
Plenty of Conservative party members won’t like this article. I apologise in advance for that: I know grammar schools are…
How Rebekah Vardy went from underdog to ‘Cry-Bully’
It was Depp vs Heard and Best Of Breed at Crufts rolled into one: yes, the Wagatha Christie gravy-train came…
The crisis of Generation Z
The youth aren’t doing well – not in America, at least. Even before Covid, experts were ringing the alarm bells…
Poll: Tory voters prefer Truss over Sunak
The Tory leadership races is a tale of two approaches: Liz Truss appears to be campaigning to win the party…
