Why Meghan Markle’s Netflix show was cancelled
In their post-royal careers, Harry and Meghan have learned two lessons in quick succession: firstly, that membership of the royal…
Starmer’s partygate hypocrisy
Awarding themselves the unearned prize for moral superiority and assuming that the electorate will do so too is a crippling…
The nanny state is making us poorer
As household budgets face their worst squeeze for decades, one wonders whether the public health establishment feels any remorse for their…
The Supreme Court’s abortion bombshell
Abortion is a nuclear bomb of an issue, planted at the core of American liberalism. And it just went off.…
Full text: leaked Roe v Wade draft ruling
The leak of a Supreme Court Justice’s draft opinion that would overturn the constitutional right to an abortion has reignited perhaps the…
Putin has corrupted Russia’s ‘Victory Day’
The Victory Day celebrations on 9 May have been, under Vladimir Putin, through a dramatic mutation. In my childhood, in the…
The essential ‘activism cheat sheet’
The Trans Journalists Association has produced a style guide to help media outlets provide ‘more accurate, sensitive coverage’ of trans issues. A…
The Taliban’s Afghanistan quagmire
Hibatullah Akhundzada is a secretive man who is only occasionally heard and seldom seen. But on May 1, the Taliban’s…
First, do no harm
As the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is because unintended consequences have…
Net Zero: the puritan Trojan horse
Recall in the movie Back to the Future when Doc warned Marty McFly not to allow his future self to…
The dangerous rise of academic diversity quotas
Who should be the custodians of science? For centuries, scientists themselves have been. Now, their custodianship is under threat. Science…
Why Channel crossings are starting again
For a week and a half no migrants at all crossed the Channel in dinghies. A theory began to take…
How Eurosceptics seized power over the French left
In Britain it was the Tories who tore themselves apart over Europe, but in France it is the left for…
Let’s turn on SafeSearch for the Houses of Parliament
It really is quite easy to click on internet pornography by accident. There’s a persuasive argument that the whole of…
New York has become the city that never eats
Is there anything more extraordinary than dining in New York City? Whetheryou’re sitting down for the Michelin star experience of…
Trickle-down ‘Woke’ dominates business
‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ has been a favourite cry of those that oppose companies that take on fashionable causes but…
The Left won’t leave Twitter
Unless you have been living under a rock, you will have heard the exciting news that Twitter has finally come…
Did we make things worse?
For almost two years, it has been an article of faith that the only way out of this Covid pandemic is…
Piers Morgan’s Uncensored has a huge mountain to climb
He sits alone at a huge glossy desk like a James Bond baddie inhis lair. The viewer expects Daniel Craig…
The absurd theatre of Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp, a Hollywood star whose career currently consists of a perfume advert, is suing his ex-wife Amber Heard, a…
Tony Blair was a victim of his own success
Napoleon is said to have placed a high value on lucky generals, though no one has succeeded in identifying the…
Why terror groups are targeting Chinese nationals in Pakistan
A female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers and a local driver at Karachi University in Pakistan this week. The…
Xi has made his choice: he is sticking with Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping has made his choice. He is sticking with his ‘best friend’ Vladimir Putin, and no end of Russian…
Elections: a trough of public money
When the major parties come together to tinker with electoral systems, there is one thing guaranteed; the citizens will get…
Fighting off Wuflu at seventy
I am narrowly and slowly recovering from a bout of Wuflu. It’s a bit like a really, really bad dose…
