The tragic loss of Somaliland’s epic Waaheen market
On the eve of Ramadan at the start of this month, the epic Waaheen market at the centre of Hargeisa,…
Who would want to lead such an angry France?
It was a day of protest in Paris on Saturday and I made it to four of the five demonstrations.…
The New York subway shooter’s private hell
A common theme among America’s spree killers is a fondness for rambling online. Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodger griped about…
Race-baiters reveal huge weaknesses in left-wing orthodoxy
I may sound naïve for saying this, but the Left always astound me. After Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at…
Ukraine was conned
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was brought up in the grunt town of Kryvyi Rih, a Soviet-looking industrial city in the southeast of…
Why are elite Russian musicians backing Putin?
A world away from the stupendous horror perpetrated by Russian forces in Bucha and Kramatorsk, a parallel conflict is being…
Why the sinking of the Moskva matters
The sinking of the Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva is both a reminder of the past and a marker for the…
Why China has its eye on the Falklands
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has paradoxically heightened China’s global reputation, if only because it has not yet invaded a…
Why Russians celebrate monsters
Nobody knows how long people live in Dzerzhinsk – life expectancy statistics for the Russian city, 250 miles east of…
Female prisoners are being endangered by trans rights
This week it was reported that a male convicted murderer in Scotland has not only been allowed to self-identity on…
Could Australia’s answer to Corbyn become PM?
While the main electoral attraction of the moment is the French presidential showdown between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen,…
The Moskva sinking is significant
It’s early days yet, but the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, apparently by Ukrainian missiles,…
Elon Musk is the wrong kind of billionaire
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the C-suite at Twitter on Thursday afternoon. The social media…
Is Deves right about children being harmed?
I agree with Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves. We are sterilising and surgically mutilating children. I’ve watched countless videos…
Easter Bunny
It would be a brave passenger indeed who hopped onto a plane where the pilot hadn’t the faintest clue about…
Dis-con notes
How often recently have you heard that ‘Ukraine has changed everything’? It has certainly changed my previously intended vote in…
Vaccine mysteries need explaining
Is anybody checking up on the reports about adverse effects to vaccination?
Australian notes
Sorry to say this – but apologies by political figures seem to have become completely meaningless. In a visit to…
