Perfect poise
The tide of survival bias has retreated and left the Anglepoise a design classic. Its contemporaries from the mid-1930s, a…
Portrait of the week
Home Sir David Amess, aged 69, the Conservative MP for Southend West, was stabbed to death while taking a constituency…
The latest celebrity must have? A trans child!
Hard luck, Madonna, your lovingly assembled rainbow family is no longer the most cutting-edge crew on the showbiz block. If…
Rishi’s Budget wriggle room
Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak looks to be heading into the Budget next week with the public finances in a…
Labour MPs pose with convicted harasser
Irony was officially pronounced dead this week after disgraced MP Claudia Webbe launched an attack on ‘wrong, bad and exploitative’…
Biden’s State Department is a laughingstock
Last week, the State Department learned that twice this summer China had tested a new hypersonic missile weapon with nuclear…
What do Mercedes’ moves mean for the future of motoring
Why would the giant German auto manufacturer Daimler Benz purposefully set out to trash its own brand? There must be something startling happening…
The void at the centre of Britain’s net zero strategy
Boris Johnson wants to turn your house green. This week, he published the plan for doing it. In fact, the…
Does ‘white privilege’ exist?
On Wednesday Radio 4 aired a programme called White Mischief,which promised to trace ‘where whiteness came from and how its…
The media has a climate change blind spot
Are you someone who is delighted by the government’s eye-wateringly expensive commitment to deliver ‘net zero’ by 2035, or are…
Hydrogen: hype or net-zero hero?
In the climate wars, hyperbole is weaponised and groupthink rewarded. We are standing witness as hydrogen becomes the latest trend…
Banning anonymity creates more problems than it solves
There are growing calls to end internet anonymity in the wake of Sir David Amess’s death. The Tory MP Mark…
COP26 hit by yet another strike
It’s just ten days to go before COP26, the green gathering described by Ed Miliband as ‘the most consequential summit that has ever…
What must Daniel Andrews’ Department of Fairness make of Daniel Andrews’ Victoria?
The Victorian Department of Fairness must be tut-tutting like a metronome in overdrive. Its job is to work ‘hard to…
A Statement of Public Interest should accompany all government bills. Here’s why
Research by both right and left think tanks the Insitute of Public Affairs and Per Capita show that for all…
The problem with the EU’s messianic treatment of Poland
Mateusz Morawiecki insists his government does not want to take Poland out of the EU. ‘Eighty-eight per cent of Poles…
Don’t worry: colleges are still insufferably woke post-COVID
Given the recent spate of “fuck Joe Biden” chants at college football games, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a…
Progressive scare tactics won’t work on Joe Manchin over Build Back Better
Are progressives serious about winning over Joe Manchin? If so, they’ve got a funny way of showing it. The Democratic senator…
Is Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe ‘losing it’?
Is Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe really “losing it”? Last week, McAuliffe snapped at a tracker who asked him…
Pru Goward and the road to Wigan Pier
Has there ever been a more pathetic display of bile-reeking, attention-seeking, virtue-signalling conspicuous compassion from the woke and the wonderful…
America has few good options in Haiti
Haiti has never been known as a beacon of stability and tranquility. Most of its politicians are feckless, in league…
Vaping: one policy the Kiwis have got right
The Asia Pacific region has been split in two as to how to best deal with vaping. No bigger is…
How concerning is the new Covid variant?
Should we worry about AY.4.2, the new Covid variant that has been in the news this week? The descendent of…
Trump’s never-ending ‘stolen election’ story damages America
Enough is enough. Yes, there were problems with last November’s election, but they have been litigated and audited for months.…
Why America’s social justice narratives always crash and burn
The wonderful thing about woke narratives is that you only have to wait a while until they collapse. The core…
