Stop enabling the crisis junkies
Did you make good use of the neatly palindromic 2/22/22? To refresh your memory, it was a day that turned…
Care about the trans debate? Ask yourself this question
J.K. Rowling is talking about sex and gender again, which means a lot of people are getting angry. It’s striking…
Should we prepare for an oil price crash?
I almost felt a sense of perverse celebration as the meter clocked round to £100 – the first time I…
Spare a thought for the Russian squaddie
Britain’s greatest war poet Siegfried Sassoon was well aware of the idiocy of those who cheered the deaths of soldiers. ‘O German…
Will China come to Putin’s rescue?
Joe Biden appears to be trying to force China’s hand over Ukraine. This follows days during which Beijing has tied…
Russian cities are returning to their Cold War state
In Russia, the lights are going out one by one. Everything one expects from an up-to-date country – cashpoints that…
Britain’s shameful response to the Ukraine crisis
Perhaps you’re of the opinion that Ukrainian refugees aren’t our problem, that the world has always been full of foreigners…
Biden’s science advisor falls to the woke
Last month, President Biden tapped Dr. Eric Lander to be his science advisor and lead a new “war on cancer”…
Russia’s war is a global cancer
One thing I have always found fascinating about Russia is that when they tell us they are going to do…
Men can’t do anything right
Men can’t do anything right, and International Women’s Day proved it. The New Zealand All Blacks marked the day by…
The uncertain future of the Equality Act
Sir Keir Starmer’s interpretation of the Equality Act has caused something of a stir. The Labour leader cited the Brown-era…
The bride of tyranny
The Trojan Horse of globalism is the extension of the world’s constant regional battles into terrifying wars that encompass the…
The era of unprecedented ignorance
What else could go wrong? First, we had a global pandemic. Then we had to deal with the devastating impacts…
Iran and Russia are probing Biden’s weaknesses
The world seems to have got a lot more dangerous since Joe Biden took office last January. It wasn’t long…
Keir Starmer’s gender identity muddle
If you needed any sign that the Labour party is still deeply confused about gender identity and sex, look no…
The West needs to prepare for guerrilla war in Ukraine
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov warned this week that convoys of weapons being sent to Ukraine would be considered…
Who is Ihor Kolomoisky?
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, is hardly considered the most cosmopolitan or globalised city in the U.S. If anything, the…
Why did it take so long to sanction Roman Abramovich?
On 28 October 2016, I received an email from a well-connected former senior MI6 officer who asked me if I…
The fatal miscalculation that led to war in Ukraine
The war against Ukraine – or the ‘special military operation’ as it is compulsorily known in Moscow – has lasted…
The cancer care timebomb that desperately needs to be fixed
As many as 100,000 patients had a cancer that was missed, or had their diagnoses or treatments delayed during the…
Putin’s taste for terror is nothing new
There is tragically nothing new about the scenes of indiscriminate terror unfolding in Ukraine: bombing and shelling unleashed by Putin’s…
Could New Zealand’s property bubble bring down Jacinda Ardern?
The news this week that the price of an average UK home has hit £260,000 came as a bit of…
Kamala Harris laughs at a war
It’s nice to be prescient. On Thursday, in a column titled “Kamala Invades Poland,” I introduced the world to “cackle…
Speak loudly and wave around wet lettuce: Morrisonian national insecurity
The expression, ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’, is attributed to former American President Theodore Roosevelt. Imperfect as his…
Is anyone bothering to calculate the ‘carbon-cost’ of war?
Does anyone still buy the headline that our world leaders believe we’re on the verge of a climate apocalypse? The…
