Why are midwives being told that biological men can give birth?
Edinburgh Napier University claims to be one of the largest providers of nursing and midwifery education in Scotland. It now…
Is this the last gasp of the Covid state?
In the week ending 15 April, there were 644 deaths registered in England and Wales involving Covid-19 as the underlying…
The truth about Biden’s new disinformation tsar
The Biden team is following in Barack Obama’s footsteps by launching a Disinformation Governance Board. And the current administration is…
Why is Canada euthanising the poor?
There is an endlessly repeated witticism by the poet Anatole France that, ‘the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the…
Why the Vikings are winning the culture war
The young woman’s screams were drowned out by the sound of drums. No older than her teens, she had been…
China: the young cat vs the pestiferous varmint
From a Chinese perspective of recent history, the West does not look good. In 1919, the French President Georges Clemenceau…
Mandatory voting: a moral obligation
Australia is one of only 22 countries in the world that has compulsory voting for all citizens. Out of these…
Net Zero joins the choir invisible
Senator Matt Canavan, a regular and popular columnist in this magazine, is under attack for having told Australians the truth.…
The best time to break out of strategic encirclement
Great power realpolitik often trumps small state sovereignty
Presumption of guilt
The Pell case is a contemporary Australian version of the infamous Dreyfus case in 19th century France and may even…
Anatomy of a forgettable scandal
An evening of shorts, courtesy of Flickerfest, even at a lustrous cinema like the Kino in the Sofitel complex off…
Aussie life
The failure of Russian forces to achieve their Ukrainian objectives is said to have surprised nobody more than their commander-in-chief.…
Language
The current prominence of the word ‘gaffe’ is due to the Gaffe Meister himself – Joe Biden. But on investigation…
The lonely path to herohood
Instead of wasting money, like other museums, on extravagant architectural statements, the Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square has sensibly chosen…
Fringes
Fringes have in recent years been considered attractive – Bettie Page, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Birkin, Kate Moss – so it…
Bad education
The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams is a sociology essay written in 1938 about a prickly tyrant, Miss Moffat,…
