Why Canada can’t put terrorists in jail for life
On 29 January 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette had breakfast, browsed the internet, had dinner with his parents, went to a mosque…
Why the Bible still matters
If you look to our schools and universities, you will not see a serious engagement with the Bible as part…
Is there a British version of America’s attachment to guns?
Now that the horror of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas has begun to ebb away, as it always does,…
Georgia’s unrequited love affair with Brussels is turning sour
The streets of Tbilisi were closed off just a few weeks ago for Independence Day, celebrating the day Georgia formally…
The uncomfortable truth about Oxford University
Oxford is a city that makes you proud to be British: its beautiful dreaming spires attract tourists and the cleverest…
Social Licences: destroying energy with virtue
‘Social Licences’ are the mechanism by which governments can pick and choose favourites in the business world. They represent a…
The election and its discontents
So, the election has come and gone. It was a disappointing, loud, and ultimately vacuous show about nothing. It saw…
Renewable or reliable? Energy cannot be both
Australia’s new ALP government has gigantic green energy plans to be funded by electricity consumers and taxpayers. They promise (with…
Could Giorgia Meloni become Italy’s next prime minister?
At the last Italian general election in 2018 the right-wing populist party, Fratelli d’Italia, got just 4 per cent of…
What’s behind the mysterious wave of bomb threats terrorising Serbia?
Is Serbia being terrorised into supporting Ukraine? The question may sound like it comes from the fevered imagination of a…
Cook cancelled: when will we call this out as racism?
Peaceful explorer, cartographer, and navigator Captain James Cook has been removed from the Australia versus England Test match crystal Cook…
We need to talk about Scotland
The Scottish government has published the first instalment of its new independence prospectus, a paper with the remarkably verbose title:…
How Russia’s cartoon heroine turned on Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin’s regime has a track record in building up public heroes whom it hopes to use, only to find…
Is the war slipping away from Ukraine?
After the decisive failure of Russia’s attempt to overthrow the government of Ukraine by seizing Kyiv, Kharkiv and other key cities…
Joe Biden’s tampon shortage
Move over baby formula: there’s a new shortage in town. Tampons are becoming increasingly hard to find in Joe Biden’s…
Covid encore performance for Justin Trudeau
Multi-jabbed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has Covid for the second time this year. Trudeau announced his latest helping of Covid on…
Teal zeal
A tweet doing the rounds this week is surely satire? Apparently not. Writing from Sydney’s oceanside suburb of Manly, the…
Ukraine’s war? There’s an app for that
Technology and innovation fighting brutal hardware and aggression
WHO wants a new pandemic treaty?
Coming soon: a vast health bureacracy with a vested interest in pandemics
When jihadists fool us twice, shame on us
The West still doesn’t understand the true nature of scorpions
