OK groomer
If you happened to be walking through Southwark this week you might have been accosted by a big public sign.…
This other Eden
Whatever one thinks of the government’s plans to send refugees to Rwanda, it was amusing to see this country’s left…
The commercialisation of virtue creates division
Manly Sea Eagles coach Des Hasler said the club has taken ‘learnings’ from this week’s gay pride jersey debacle. But…
Did Rishi Sunak’s interview gamble pay off?
Rishi Sunak took a major risk tonight, agreeing to a one-on-one interview with Andrew Neil on Channel 4 News. As…
Andrew Neil’s interview with Rishi Sunak – as it happened
Rishi Sunak was interviewed by Andrew Neil on Channel 4 tonight. He was quizzed on inflation, the NHS backlog and more. Liz Truss,…
William Shatner: ‘Gene Roddenberry would hate Woke Star Trek’
The 91-years-young star of the original Star Trek series has criticised newer additions (see here, here, and here) to the Sci-Fi universe, declaring, Star Trek…
Is the eurozone in crisis?
Is the eurozone heading for another 2010-style sovereign debt crisis? Today comes the news that inflation in the eurozone hit…
Scots are being sacrificed to a failed drug policy
The Scottish government’s attempts to spin the latest drugs deaths statistics are a grim response to a total failure of…
Rebekah Vardy’s spectacular own goal
Jamie Vardy is one of English football’s most prolific strikers. But thanks to his wife, his surname will be forever…
Giorgia Meloni has beaten Silvio Berlusconi at his own game
Now it’s official: if the right-wing coalition wins Italy’s election, Giorgia Meloni will almost definitely be prime minister. Earlier this…
Prince Harry mocked by Supreme Court judge
‘Privacy’ was the reason given for Harry and Meghan upping sticks and leaving Britain in early 2020. The dilettante duke…
Struggling Brits need help, not free theatre tickets
Lurking in the background of the Tory leadership contest, the cost of living crisis rumbles on. With Autumn round the…
WHO are the ‘Reds under the bed’
Face-mask enthusiast and British communist Professor Susan Michie has been appointed to a worryingly influential role at the World Health…
On the frontline at Drag Queen Story Hour
Henleaze, a suburb in the north of Bristol, is an unlikely place for a protest. This is a well-to-do area…
Wokus Pocus and the Culture War
‘As we fight to tackle the climate crisis and the inequality crisis, we should be campaigning side by side with…
Walking Hanoi
I let the roosters wake me at 4:30 a.m., since it’s already 88 degrees out, will be 100 by noon…
Whatever happened to 1.5°C?
On the Kenny Report recently, fill-in host Chris Smith railed against the Greens’ demands that we ‘do much more to cut…
Energy policy: where parallel universes are set to collide
There are parallel universes in energy policy and they are about to collide. In one universe, the governments of Australia…
Biden’s humiliating Middle East excursion
Anyone anticipating significant progress or even directional clarity arising from the 13-16 July visit by US President Joe Biden and…
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is about politics not diplomacy
The Biden administration is increasingly concerned about a trip to Taiwan next month by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And they…
Is the US in recession?
There’s an almighty debate ongoing in the US about what exactly a ‘recession’ is. Regardless of semantics, the numbers are…
Asking a rabbi about abortion
When the Roe news broke, my thoughts — myopically — turned not to the millions of Americans who were rejoicing,…
Why the Tavistock clinic had to be shut down
There are many reasons why what is sometimes crudely called ‘the trans issue’ is important. One is the political failure…
Could Boris return?
Asked recently whether Boris Johnson, Britain’s soon-to-be-ex-Prime Minister, would ever return to the highest elected office in the land, super-loyalist…
