The Morrison government is in a bind as base gets restless – and that’s before we get to climate
At the outset of the pandemic, there were those hoping it would be the spark for their versions of economic…
Caitlyn Jenner is trapped in the wrong Twitter account
Caitlyn Jenner’s Twitter account is having an identity crisis. It’s not particularly rare for a political campaign to create fake…
Google’s war on home workers was inevitable
Tapping out some code in the back garden. Working on a sales presentation while watching the school sports day. Or…
The strange allure of double agents
John le Carré, the master of British spy stories, may have died last December, aged 89. But the dastardly world…
The failed royal response to Prince Andrew’s Epstein scandal
The royals are dab hands at navigating crises. They’ve had no choice but to develop the necessary skills. Their armoury…
The dishonesty of the political class
Good public policy-making requires a wide swathe of opinions being stirred in the cauldron of competing ideas. The jurisdiction in…
Kate Clanchy and the new censorship in publishing
‘There’s more than one way to burn a book’, wrote Ray Bradbury, in a coda to the 1979 edition of…
The problems posed by booster shots
It is already known that there will be a campaign of booster shots in the UK this autumn to boost…
Poles apart: The EU will never understand Poland
Poland was the largest state in Europe for over two centuries. It was a multi-ethnic commonwealth, a refuge for Jews,…
The BBC’s woke guide to gender
Earlier this week, Mr S brought you the BBC’s internal guide to talking about climate change and how to win…
Most Covid patients at Israeli hospital fully vaccinated? What does this mean for Australia?
Israel has been held up as the “gold standard” of how to conduct the coronavirus vaccine rollout. It has seen approximately 70% of its…
Funny how climate activists don’t seem to know how the climate works
If you listen to this week’s IPCC’s report launched in Glasgow (and to the hysterical activists burning prams outside Australia’s…
The Greek wildfires and the failings of the state
The wildfires raging across Greece for what is by now more than a week, show no sign of abating. High…
Why wealth matters in the free speech debate
The divide between the rich and the poor is obvious in Britain today. Whether in terms of income, geography or political…
Sliding towards tyranny, one ‘Look at me, I’ve been vaxxed’ Facebook post at a time
I used to think Big Brother represented the failings of a centralised government, but as COVID accelerates our move towards…
Let’s have a global sports boycott of China
According to the latest score sheet, the People’s Republic of China won 38 gold medals at this year’s Olympic Games,…
Pakistan’s profane blasphemy laws
An eight-year-old Hindu boy is currently in custody in the southern Punjab. He is the youngest person in Pakistan to…
What’s the truth about the UN’s ‘code red’ climate warning?
Predictably enough, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report has been greeted with hyperbole about fire, flood and tempest. It is…
Why Andrew Cuomo had to go
The announcement that Andrew Cuomo will resign in two weeks follows the total collapse of his political support among Democrats…
The neo-feudalism of Obama’s maskless ball
I lost my invitation and, besides, the pilot of my private plane was on holiday, so I had to miss…
More diplomacy won’t stop the advance of the Taliban
On 11 August, at Russia’s initiative, an ‘extended troika’ will meet in Doha, Qatar to take stock of the Taliban’s…
Mandatory jabs and bans on the unvaccinated? Try getting that past the High Court
In a provocative article published last weekend, Joe Hildebrand argued that “We are fast approaching a point where anyone who…
Why conservatives shouldn’t support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Yesterday, Flat White ran a piece by Senator Andrew Bragg explaining why conservatives should support the proposed Indigenous Voice to…
Where’s Joe Biden?
Forget about Hunter, where’s Joe? Biden took a long weekend at his Delaware retreat but hasn’t been seen since Saturday…
Cuomo isn’t resigning. Why should he?
The Andrew Cuomo groping scandal has finally claimed some scalps. Just not Andrew Cuomo’s. Instead, it is MeToo’s enforcers who…
