Those damned dams
While it was very pleasing to this old water conservation enthusiast to hear PM Morrison announce a 5.4 billion funding…
Five things we learnt from Johnson’s evidence to MPs
Boris Johnson rocked up at the Liaison Committee today, fresh from last night’s bonding dinner with 250 Tory MPs. And…
Ukraine is witnessing the future of drone warfare
Russian forces have reportedly been ordered to watch last year’s state-funded propaganda film Sky. The Kremlin-funded drama follows the lives of Russian airmen…
Do House Democrats want cities to die?
The Democratic Party is out of the office. Quite literally. Nancy Pelosi, who controls administrative policy in the House, this…
Jamie Wallis’s trans statement leaves more questions than answers
Westminster has its first openly transgender Member of Parliament. In the early hours of this morning, Jamie Wallis, Conservative MP…
The Prince Andrew conundrum
Prince Philip’s memorial service yesterday was an affecting occasion. The hymns, including Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer and Britten’s…
Are we falling out of love with the NHS?
Clap for carers now feels like ancient history. Public satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest since 1997, according…
Now the statue-topplers come for abolitionists
Susan Aitken, we meet again. The worst council leader in Britain is back in the news. What, pray, is it…
British judges are right to cut ties with Hong Kong
The resignations of Lords Reed and Hodge from Hong Kong’s highest court is not much of a surprise, except perhaps to…
Neither Ukraine nor Russia can win the war
While Russia has agreed to pull back its troops from Kyiv, the signs of a wider breakthrough in peace talks are…
Israel is facing a new wave of terror
Is Israel in the midst of another wave of terrorist violence? Five Israelis were killed in a terrorist incident on…
Has Putin finally handed over control to his generals?
Russia has signalled that, a month into a war that it expected to take a few days, it would begin…
The flawed idealism that united the right
Modern American conservatism is composed of three distinct traditions: libertarian economics, foreign-policy hawkism and social traditionalism. This “fusion” was born…
Don’t let Russia end the old world order
While most Americans believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is morally wrong, there is in some corners a pervasive…
Kate and Will’s fabulous Caribbean journey?
Well, Kate and Will’s ‘Horrible Caribbean Journey’ is at an end and I now have a chest full of newspaper…
Authoritarianism gets women hot…
To understand why the rise of authoritarianism in once-liberal Western democracies is greeted – not by resistance, but rapturous applause…
Can men have babies? Albo says ‘no’, Labor says ‘yes’
Anthony Albanese has incensed LGBTQ+ activists by saying men can’t have babies, but the public don’t believe him when he says he’s not Woke.…
Is this the end of borrow and spend?
Since the spring statement last week, Rishi Sunak has been dealing with complaints from all sides: the right have been…
Labour is falling into the Tim Farron trap on sex and gender
What do you remember about Tim Farron’s time as Lib Dem leader? Was it the position he created for his…
How Boris misled MPs over partygate
The significance of today’s announcement by the Met Police that 20 individuals who unlawfully attended parties in Downing Street and the…
Stop attacking billionaires
The $5.79 trillion budget plan Joe Biden submitted to Congress yesterday was more notable for what it didn’t include, rather…
Who poisoned Roman Abramovich?
Russia is now 33 days into a war it expected would last 72 hours. Given the relative failure of the…
How Sunak sunk himself
Whatever his myriad faults and foibles, Boris Johnson has the one essential quality that Napoleon demanded of his generals: luck.…
The rouble’s astonishing recovery
The tank columns are stalled; one or two towns captured from the Ukrainians have been retaken. Russia’s war effort has…
Is Putin’s playbook finally being used against him?
Goris, Armenia ‘Where we deploy our own troops within our own borders is nobody’s business but our own,’ Kremlin press…
