In praise of Deborah Lipstadt
The United States Senate is not a body commonly associated with alacrity but its sluggishness in considering the nomination of…
Teach kids to code? They’re better off learning languages
A leading artificial intelligence professor has said that children should learn to write software. According to professor Michael Bronstein of…
‘Harder than heroin’: America’s silent benzo epidemic
“Imagine taking a pill that makes you instantly feel relaxed, and then imagine that when you stop taking it, you…
A working-class liberty movement
We begin today in the Canadian Parliament, which has its own version of prime minister’s questions. And while it isn’t…
Never again: a manifesto on freedom
I can clearly remember walking around Sydney harbour on Australia Day in 2020. My partner and I meandered through The…
Perrottet fancies a bit of Bega
Dominic Perrottet obviously thinks Bega is in play at the by-election on Saturday judging by his presence last week in…
Mob hysteria
While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have…
Man bites dog
This is what happens when the self-appointed preachers of tolerance and respect don’t get their way. LGBTQ activists have covered…
Civility? It’s empathy we need
Following leaked text messages showing the way politicians can talk behind closed doors, Grace Tame’s rudeness towards the Prime Minister,…
PMQs: Boris looks chipper for a man on the brink
And still they try. MPs are desperate to get the Prime Minister to quit, live on TV, during PMQs. As…
Carry on Carrie: why I’ve changed my mind about our ‘first lady’
Who exactly is the Prime Minister’s wife? To some, she’s Carrie Antoinette, the extravagant demander of gold wallpaper who spent…
Why is the BBC saying Boris’s Savile claims are false?
Is Boris Johnson’s claim that Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile ‘false’? The BBC certainly thinks so. During the…
PMQs: Boris’s anger over new partygate picture
The takeaway moment from today’s PMQs came not in the main exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer but…
Can Macron really lecture Putin about democracy?
A penny for the thoughts of Vladimir Putin on Monday as he stared at Emmanuel Macron from the end of…
Adele is right to take a pop at gender neutral awards
Adele’s triumph at the Brits last night is splashed all over the internet. She won best song, best album, and best…
Lock them up? Not in Sturgeon’s Scotland
One of the great disappointments of devolution has been the failure of the Scottish parliament to pursue novel ways of…
Sacrificing the Uighurs to the Olympics
It’s hard to say what was most distressing about the opening days of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The lament of…
The basics (and evils) of Cultural Marxism
Readers might be aware of Cultural Marxism, contained within the academic field of Critical Theory as a collection of heavily…
Letter from New York – where empathy is exhausted
This week, in one carriage of the New York City subway, there were seven homeless people taking shelter on an…
History on the side of Barnaby Joyce
The ambush on Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison at his Canberra Press Club address last week was extraordinary. So too…
The greater good – or a grander evil?
Every time I hear some middling news reporter parrot ‘for the greater good’ in reference to whatever the next absurd…
Will Starmer apologise for his slur against Boris?
Well I don’t know about you, but I definitely heard a nasty slur flung from one leader to another during…
China breaks new records in the Surveillance Olympics
Never before have the participants in a major sporting event been so closely monitored as in this Winter Olympics in…
Boris’s reshuffle reveals his weakness
Boris Johnson’s attempted reset is underway, with a mini-reshuffle announced this afternoon. The Prime Minister has made a number of changes to…
The Starmer mob moral panic
In the long history of British democracy, politicians have from time to time been heckled and abused by rowdy loons…
