The Supreme Court case that could end Roe v Wade
Nearly 50 years after Roe v Wade unleashed a constitutional right to abortion and redefined modern American politics, Dobbs v…
The Washingtonian’s dreary, woke ‘best of’ list
Cockburn was waiting to get his beard trimmed at the barber recently and found himself flicking through the latest issue…
Do these 20 Republicans regret confirming AG Merrick Garland?
Attorney General Merrick Garland was confirmed to the top post in the Department of Justice in March 2021 by a…
Reports of the demise of Italian populism are greatly exaggerated
Britain’s newspapers have called the results of the local elections in Italy the death of populism. The Times, for example,…
Poland’s top court has finally called the EU’s bluff
For many years, the EU has posed as a kind of overbearing imperial leviathan, which insists its law has to prevail over…
France’s political elite created Eric Zemmour
Love him or loathe him, Eric Zemmour is a breath of fresh air in French politics. Before he appeared as…
Crack open the Dom
It’s not often these days that somebody who is a conservative, a Christian and a contributor to this magazine ends…
Euro notes
Merkel’s woeful legacy How ironic but unsurprising that Angela Merkel, for sixteen years leader of her country’s once-conservative Christian Democrats,…
The empty moral posturing of attacks on vaccine hesitants
Covid has turned our civilised principles upside down
Disappointed in the Libs?
How might the centre-right do better? This is the question that the promising young writer Jake Thrupp has posed; and…
Clive Owen
A time of plague makes us brood on the culture we share in the absence of personal preference. One person…
Aussie Life
One of the most compelling things about Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, is the way we don’t…
Aussie Language
A new study by researchers at the University of Western Australia shows that the most trusted accent in Australia is…
Aux bien pensants
Premier, why didn’t you listen? After ICAC’s attempt to destroy that model of integrity, Crown Prosecutor, Margaret Cuneen was scuttled…
A binary choice
It’s a strange reflection of our times that with so much else at stake, the leaders of both main parties…
Portrait of the week
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said he did not think Britain was in a crisis; he wanted it to…
Bungalows
We keep hearing about the importance of levelling up. Architects tasked with the responsibility of building new homes, however, might…
