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…
Letter from Taiwan
Normally, if the response to a speech of mine was that it had been a ‘despicable and insane performance’ from…
The dangerous pleasure of hating men
I have Netflix, and in particular the series Maid, to thank for the startling discovery of how easy it is…
The root of the problem
I was intrigued to learn that Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the US, is worried about racist trees. I…
Everybody expects the moral Inquisition
Last week, the former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan revealed that he’d been accused by another cricketer — Azeem Rafiq…
Bankers are more likely to save the planet than Obama or Greta
I have observed before how useful really big numbers can be in response to crises: when US treasury secretary Hank…
Trash
‘When they posted the closing-night notice for his first Broadway play, Comes a Day, he went into a drunken rage,…
