Meghan has been found out
‘Speaking her truth’ has been one of Meghan Markle’s USPs – and what an absolute disaster it’s been, leading inevitably…
The grim reality of gender reassignment
Lisa Littman, a doctor and researcher, recently surveyed ‘detransitioners’ — people who thought they were transgender then changed their minds.…
France is using migrants just like Belarus
It was hard not to laugh, coldly, at the statement from western members of the UN Security Council that condemned…
Does Rishi Sunak really understand red wall voters?
Rishi Sunak thinks Boris Johnson goofed badly when he conspiring to upend Commons standards procedures and agrees with his colleagues…
Why is Durham offering training for student sex workers?
As a first year university student from a disadvantaged background, I know all too well the constant struggle students can…
Mateship’s lifted the vax rate? Maybe – and the odd walloping, too
Australia’s high vaccination rate is due to Aussie mateship and a high level of trust in government. Oh, and I’ve…
Eighteen months of inflation is not ‘transitory’
The big central banks have been insisting for months now that the rise in inflation is temporary, and will fade…
A troubling tide of anti-Semitism is sweeping Britain and France
A day after the Israeli ambassador to Britain, Tzipi Hotovely, was harassed as she left the London School of Economics,…
Are we free yet?
There were some fine words from the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, this week when he spoke in Melbourne to a…
Australian notes
Zut alors! The French have not forgiven the English for Brexit. As Clément Beaune, France’s Minister for European Affairs, said…
Bert Newton
And so the world finally bestirs itself in the direction of going out because it’s now allowable. A young millennial…
Kiwi Life
A government in jackboots A recent headline echoes the current mood of this now fed-up country, with Sir Russell Coutts,…
Aussie Language
The short-priced favourite that ran second in this year’s Melbourne Cup was a horse called ‘incentivise’. But is that a…
Aux bien pensants
Restoring constitutional governance in emergencies Australia’s elites are now engaged in a travesty of public policy, so-called net zero emissions.…
Can Johnson weather this new storm?
The row over MPs’ outside interests has landed Boris Johnson in one of the most uncomfortable positions a prime minister…




