The problem with the UK’s Russian clamp down
I’m no apologist for oligarchs, whether they be from Russia or anywhere else. I have been writing for years about…
Putin’s invasion has collapsed the French right
At the time it probably felt like a good idea for Marine Le Pen’s campaign team. A photo of her…
Saboteurs and looters: life in Ukraine’s capital
Lviv, Ukraine Russian troops have yet to reach the centre of Kiev. Instead, locals have two more immediate concerns: saboteurs…
Macron appears unassailable
Emmanuel Macron, the President of France for whom few voters have expressed much affection, is suddenly the leader of a…
KitKat-loving MPs consume £250k in snacks
After surviving his Covid scare in spring 2020, Boris Johnson was positively evangelical about the importance of weight loss. Launching…
The invasion of Ukraine and the death of globalisation
Putin’s savage invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s collective response, is the moment that the slow death of financial and…
Xi Jinping seeks to control Australia’s future
The current tragedy unfolding in Ukraine is a lesson to the West; history does repeat itself and we should take the lessons…
In search of monsters
In the final scene of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy – an astronomer who had attempted for…
Crypto politico – digital liberty for the masses?
Cryptocurrency, a bona fide buzzword of the last few years, has taken off as a means of decentralising financial systems.…
What happens to Australia if Pax Americana fails?
The invasion of liberal Ukraine by a revanchist Russia is as good an occasion as any to muse upon Australia’s…
Are Poles really against immigrants?
Krakow The invasion of Ukraine is being felt across Europe. Already hundreds of thousands of displaced Ukrainians are spilling out…
Boris is back
Boris looks quite the statesman as he deals with the Ukraine crisis. MPs have spotted this and they want to…
Will the West boycott Russian oil?
The price of Brent crude exceeded $112 a barrel this morning. There is, as yet, no interruption in supply from…
The creeping authoritarianism of facial recognition
In an effort to lower crime rates, American law enforcement is pushing to combine facial recognition with expanded video surveillance.…
The crisis in Ukraine is strengthening the EU
The EU has a knack for turning a crisis into an opportunity. The Eurozone crisis led to the centralisation of…
No-fly zones won’t work, but what about aid to Ukraine?
Vladimir Putin’s forces are encircling the cities of Kharkiv, Kherson and Mariupol, and a 40 mile-long convoy of Russian armoured vehicles…
The Putin apologists of the European parliament
Never underestimate Vladimir Putin, and certainly never underestimate his advisers. Well before the first Russian rockets exploded in metropolitan Kiev,…
Ethical investors have weakened the West’s defences
It won’t be the first, or indeed the most serious, casualty of the war in Ukraine. It probably won’t be…
Putin is no Hitler
That English history lessons consist of World War II and the Tudors has come back to bite us again. The…
Joe Biden’s gung-ho State of the Union speech
It’s arguably not the right moment to focus on Joe Biden’s verbal slips, but it is a little unnerving when…
What’s behind the wave of French police suicides?
Since Russia invaded Ukraine last week the western media has focused on little else. In Britain this concentration is understandable:…
Ukraine couldn’t save Biden’s State of the Union
‘We oppose authoritarianism!’ our pundits all cry, before tuning in to watch the American president thunder like a god in…
Transgender activism in women’s sport remains unpopular
As Mr Morrison comes out in favour of protecting women’s right to the safety and dignity of playing sport in…
Putin sticks the bayonet into the West
Here in the United States, the average American is aghast at finding the United States on opposing sides to Russia…
Morrison: tough talk on Putin, feeble on freedom
When Scott Morrison was asked what he thought of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Mr Morrison responded: ‘I call him a…
