China rising: the ADF have nothing
[ This is part 2 of a series. Read part 1 here. ] Amidst the foreboding context of a declining West…
Is Boris willing to make the Rwanda plan work?
Priti Patel’s first go at deporting migrants to Rwanda is turning before our eyes into one of those answers from…
In defence of meddlesome priests
The British constitution is best understood as a dinner party. Imagine the key institutions of national life personified and sat…
The police have bowed to the mob
On Saturday immigration enforcement officers went to Peckham to pick up a man suspected of overstaying his visa. When they…
Levelling up is failing
First the good news: the Office for National Statistics figures released today show that pay is rising at its fastest…
Is Britain getting back to work?
The economic lesson of the week is that headlines are often deceiving. Yesterday’s GDP update for the month of April…
The EU never understood Northern Ireland
At the heart of the crisis over the Protocol is its failure to deliver on its own stated aims. To…
Reflections of a Liberal Party minion
My wife dropped me off at my assigned polling booth in the northern reaches of the Adelaide federal electorate. With…
The Democrats’ ‘do something’ gun bill
There’s a new federal gun law in the works and it’s being heralded as a “bipartisan breakthrough agreement on gun…
Quick!!! Lock everyone down immediately
[ Calm down, it’s satire. Well, mostly. ] Reports of yet another highly contagious viral respiratory disease are beginning to…
Conservatism wins elections
In the recent election, I saw – as a member and branch officeholder of the Liberal Party – the effect…
‘Toxic fandom’ or backlash against Woke?
Hollywood and major streaming services have done nothing but complain about the so-called ‘toxic fandom’ killing new releases and tearing…
Boris’s Protocol shake-up faces two major challenges
The UK government has now published both the text of the Northern Ireland Protocol bill and a summary of its…
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome baffles doctors
A strange new medical anomaly has doctors baffled as it sweeps across the country. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is…
Among the green conservatives
The American Conservation Coalition (ACC) last week held its first official summit, hosting a vibrant crowd of over 250 people.…
Changing the Northern Ireland Protocol won’t break the law
The UK is about to publish a bill that will override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. We are doing…
The royal rabble vs the Queen
By and large, the Platinum Jubilee celebrations were a success. Barring the odd moment of inexplicable poor taste, it was…
Welsh Tories would be wise to split from the Conservatives
Conservatives in Wales are jumpy. Seeing Boris’s name as poisonous on the doorstep, a number of them have suggested disaffiliating…
France’s Socialists have been punished for their intolerance
One of the more significant results from the first round of the French parliamentary elections on Sunday was in the…
The Northern Ireland Protocol is a problem Boris created
If Boris Johnson was elected on a single slogan, it was ‘Get Brexit done’. He then claimed it was done…
Why is America bombing Somalia again?
You may not have caught it amidst other international developments, but the United States bombed Somalia last Friday. No, that…
The next Brexit battle is here
The government will today reveal its plans to unilaterally rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Depending on who you…
Are we ignoring AI’s ‘lived experience’?
Number Five, as the old film’s catchphrase went, is alive. A whistleblower at Google called Blake Lemoine has gone public…
Could Macron lose his majority?
Last night was a poor one for the President. His Ensemble coalition appear neck and neck with La Nouvelle Union Populaire Écologique…
Facebook: hate speech or idiom?
In the annals of political skulduggery, there have been fewer brutal acts than the assassination of Julius Caesar on the…
