High life
New York Living a life of pleasure is fun, but it can also become tiresome. Living an ethical life of…
Chariot on fire
Eighty years ago, just after midnight on 28 March 1942, the British destroyer HMS Campbeltown crept up the estuary of…
Real life
‘You coming to help us poo pick?’ said my friend Terry, in a desperate sounding voice message. The builder boyfriend…
Low life
After two nights at Le Grau-du-Roi (the King’s Pond) and a night spent within the medieval walls of Aigues-Mortes (Stagnant…
Bridge
It was time to celebrate! The Schapiro Spring Foursomes was back again after the enforced Covid break, and the EBU’s…
The courage of Katharine Birbalsingh
Five years ago, I put my friend Nell Butler in touch with Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain’s most outspoken headmistress. I was…
Sanction Schröder
From the start of the war in Ukraine, the democratic world has shown striking unity in the economic boycott of…
The madness of ‘emotional support animals’
Sometimes an event or a phenomenon is so perplexing and so terrible that it’s best not to deal with it…
An international civil war
The barbarity of the Russian civil war almost defies description – but in that, too, the Reds triumphed, says Antony Beevor
Over easy Albanese fried on both sides
Anthony Albanese has claimed the Liberal advertising campaign slogan – ‘Life won’t be easy under Albanese’ – is racist bullying that…
Will anyone watch a Harry and Meghan Netflix docuseries?
Picture the convivial scene. You have been invited into the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s palatial £11 million mansion in…
Idrissa Gueye and the problem with Pride
Is waving the Pride flag compulsory now? The Idrissa Gueye scandal suggests it might be. Footballer Gueye did not play…
#Monkeypox: apocalypse 2.0
Alright, hands up – who had #Monkeypox on their 2022 apocalypse ‘bingo!’ card? In response to widespread hysteria sweeping social…
Is this the return of football hooliganism?
Everton secured their Premier League safety last night, coming back from two goals down to bag a 3-2 victory against…
We need passion in our politics
With only one sleep until polling day, I am firmly convinced that neither the Liberals nor Labor should be allowed…
Sovereignty to sizzle out on Saturday?
On Saturday we are compelled to vote – by law. In Australia, three things demonstrate that we are no longer…
The Senate gold mine
Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Well of course there is, and the fact that many university…
Howard’s masterclass: standing up to Woke
John Howard, a master in the art of persuasion, gave a masterclass yesterday. Campaigning with Warringah candidate Katherine Deves, who…
The age of American unexceptionalism
Our administration would have us believe that Joe Biden is the leader of the free world. But he isn’t —…
Is ‘woke’ real?
Woke is a strange phenomena, but what does it actually mean? Activists and columnists alike declare that being woke is…
What is Black Lives Matter?
It’s hard not to admire Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter foundation. Under fire over yet another…
Who is David Sherborne, libel lawyer to the stars?
If you’re a celeb with a burning grievance, the hottest place in town is an unassuming, Georgian terraced house in…
Nigeria’s Christians are under attack, but does the West care?
The scene is medieval in its horror: a woman stoned, beaten and set on fire by a mob shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.…
The madness of France’s burkini bust-up
To burkini, or not to burkini? This is the question that divides France in the run-up to the first round…
