The triumph of Truss
This week has seen a dramatic development that has taken the Westminster Village by surprise: Britain suddenly has an identifiable…
Sunak and Truss have no answer to the big problem facing the West
You will never measure the depth of our troubles if you listen to the contenders for the Tory leadership. Rishi…
Is France capable of hosting next year’s Olympics?
Five years ago, Paris was named the host city for the 2024 Olympics. How the country celebrated. No one more…
Is the death penalty making a comeback?
It’s been a busy week for hangmen. In Japan, Tomohiro Kato, a 39-year-old man, was hanged at a Tokyo prison…
A tribute to my friend James Lovelock
The scientist James Lovelock died this week at the age of 103. He was best known for his Gaia theory,…
TikTok can’t escape its China problem
In 2020, then-president Donald Trump attempted to ban the wildly popular social media app TikTok. Its Gen Z influencers were…
The author is (not) dead
As long as individuals interact with one another, someone is going to wind up offended from time to time. The…
Making inflation great again
The Albanese government have made excellent use of the long winter break, taking advantage of the warmer weather in the…
Brown study
Unfortunately, we live in times of rampant corruption in civil society and a complete lack of integrity and morals in…
Neighbours no more
It’s cheering to hear such good reports of the performance of Mahler’s second symphony by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under…
Aussie life
New US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy had them at her first media conference interjection: when the white, stale male journalist (the…
Language
It was Will Self (writing in The Speccie) who drew my attention to the new word ‘uberise.’ He says he…
All that jazz
Simon Godwin’s Much Ado About Nothing is set in a steamy Italian holiday resort, the Hotel Messina, in the 1920s.…
National cycle routes
Many of us daydream about escaping into an imaginary parallel universe. The good news is that Britain has its own…
