Joe Biden’s greatest hits tour
Joe Biden would never be in a hair band; a hair plugs band, maybe. Yet the president does seem to…
The moral monopoly of Net Zero
Two recent books are timely and relevant – Alex Epstein’s Fossil Futures and Douglas Murray’s The War on the West. They crystallise…
Yet more ‘vaccine success’
I recently received a communication from my GP’s surgery: ‘Influenza is spiking early. Our GPs report that those with 2022…
Australia’s perfect economic storm
Successive Australian governments are directing our economy into the eye of a perfect storm. It should be avoidable, but due…
How Russia’s press covered the death sentence of two British fighters
Two Brits and a Moroccan national captured while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by a court in…
New Yorker claims ‘racism’ dominated jubilee
Just what is it with New Yorkers and London? Normally Steerpike’s ire for the Big Apple is reserved for the…
Keir Starmer isn’t working
Silence. That is what we heard during Gloria de Piero’s recent focus group which she held for her GB News…
Mask-up for MonkeyPox
America’s Centre for Disease Control this week recommended travellers mask up to protect themselves from the MonkeyPox – a disease…
Hospitals: a medical and political crisis
Sensational headlines about ambulance ramping have become a regular event, with the usual finger-pointing of state versus federal responsibility made…
The lettuce apocalypse – will someone think of the Vegans!
It is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine a future of electric vehicles and high-tech homes when Australia is staggering into…
Where are the visionary politicians?
As I watch my Australia transition from a Liberal government that only managed around 36 per cent of the primary…
21st century vandals
The nihilism of the times is displayed by the fact that protesters increasingly see fit to attack artworks or statues…
Mr. McConaughey goes to Washington
Matthew McConaughey came to Cockburn’s hometown of Washington, DC on Tuesday. It was not to say hi, of course, but…
The ‘incredible’ International Fire & Climate Conference
Three consecutive extreme summers accompanied the Settlement Drought of 1790-93. Masses of flying foxes and lorikeets dropped dead in Parramatta…
Emily Bridges is right about transgender cyclists
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges doesn’t ‘want special treatment from anyone’. In an ITV interview, Bridges said: ‘I just want the…
PMQs: Boris let slip his re-election strategy
PMQs started with a bump. The Speaker called Dame Angela Eagle whose tone was acidic but quietly conversational. ‘This week’s…
Boris can’t wish the tax burden away
After an uncomfortably close confidence vote for the Prime Minister on Monday, Boris Johnson’s premiership still hobbles along. But for…
Starmer’s PMQs performance was oddly flat
It’s not unusual for a Labour leader to attack the government over the NHS at Prime Minister’s Questions. Neither is…
The utter shamelessness of Britain’s rail unions
In what other industry could demand collapse by a tenth and yet the staff still think that they have a…
Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism
Washington, DC Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me. Lost amid all…
Why Ukrainians like me still love Boris Johnson
When Boris Johnson and Ukraine’s president Zelensky walked through the streets of our capital in April, they came across a…
Nigeria’s Christians are relentlessly under attack
Dozens of Christian worshippers, including several children, were killed in a gun raid on a church in Nigeria’s Owo town…
The trouble with Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty, the French economist who shot to fame for writing a colossal work of economics that many people bought…
What Boris needs to do to survive
Most people date the beginning of Boris Johnson’s current woes to the start of the partygate scandal, and especially to…
Boris Johnson should quit now to save his career
The greased piglet will soon be sausages. That, at least, seems the obvious outcome of this week’s Tory party confidence…
