Has Xi Jinping overplayed his hand?
The Chinese Communist party’s origin story, like so many of its official lines, appears to be an apocryphal tale. But…
How the BBC put Bill Clinton in prison
Yesterday the US comedian Bill Cosby left prison, after the Philadelphia Supreme Court overturned his conviction for sexual assault in…
The embarrassing and pathetic Vogue profile of Dr Jill Biden, EdD
It’s a good thing that Vogue’s nauseating profile of Jill Biden — sorry, I mean Dr Jill Biden, EdD — wasn’t…
How Boris Johnson plans to reopen the country
Next week, the government will set out what the reopening will look like. I understand that the current plan is…
Do we have a constitutional right to free speech?
“Freedom of speech may not be protected by Australia’s constitution, high court judge says,” screamed a recent headline in The…
How Germany’s law-breaking undermined the EU
Well over a year ago I wroteabout how Germany had broken both the EU treaty and so international law, when…
Find the CO2
Man-made carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is responsible for catastrophic climate change, according to climate alarmists. We must stop…
Donald Rumsfeld succeeded at everything — so why did he fail in the end?
What kind of man was Donald Rumsfeld? A successful one, by almost every measure. Ivy League scholar-athlete, captain of Princeton’s…
The growing cult of ‘Dada’ Xi Jinping
In a defiant speech to mark the Communist party’s centenary today, Xi Jinping warned foreign powers they would ‘have their…
They don’t have safe spaces in North Korea
If you still have a copy of the important 1976 volume by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A Warning to the West, it will be worth…
Don’t moralise about sex work
There are a lot of myths surrounding prostitution. Chief among them is the claim that sex workers are virtual slaves,…
What do the ABC and the Chinese Communist Party have in common?
With all the attention being paid to the Chinese Communist Party’s birthday, we thought it only fair that our beloved…
The UN’s American obsession
Under other circumstances I wouldn’t mind living in the American empire here in Britain. The tithes are reasonable and the…
Oxfam’s strange obsession with ‘whiteness’
Remember when it was considered wrong for workplaces to harangue their employees about their racial origins? Ah, those were the…
New York election officials keep it stupid
For decades, the American Idol and Eurovision TV talent shows have calculated millions of votes during commercial breaks with barely…
Poll: 2019 Tories still backing Boris
It’s by-election day in Batley and Spen tomorrow. The only constituency polling done in the West Yorkshire seat suggests that the Tories…
Who killed Ashli Babbitt?
Who shot Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump Air Force veteran who was killed by police during the January 6 riot at…
The infrastructure Trojan horse
The official Twitter account of VOX Madrid, the local chapter of a Spanish political party, noted a funny and familiar…
The Peter Ridd case is too important to be left to the courts
A lot rides on the case of Ridd v JCU, which was heard last Wednesday, June 23, 2021, in the High…
Tucker versus the Deep State
Tucker Carlson is at war with the National Security Agency, and it makes great TV. Two nights running, the Fox…
The sausage war ceasefire is a good sign for UK-EU relations
The sausage dispute between the UK and the EU may sound like something out of Yes Minister but it is…
The woke patriarchy
The hyperbole of progressive feminism has provided a lot of fodder for conservative commentators. Just the mention of the “patriarchy”…
The Covid battle Sajid Javid still has to face
Despite the humiliation of Matt Hancock’s exit, Sajid Javid, the new Secretary of State for Health, might in fact find…
Laurel Hubbard is just a symptom of new chilling attacks on free speech in New Zealand
Individuals seem born with a basic sense of fair play, and perceiving hard-working, well-deserving or brave individuals treated unjustly inevitably rankles. So condemnation of the New Zealand Olympic…
The EU is stoking the culture war between East and West
Other EU countries ‘should not interfere in the affairs of Hungary,’ Czech president Miloš Zeman said on Sunday in support of…
