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…
A turning point on cancel culture?
“There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no…
Forget the virus. We should be panicked by lost productivity
The very definition of harmful advice is found in the Treasury’s five yearly Intergenerational Report, the latest edition of which…
What did a poobah of public health just say?
Excuse me? Excuse me? What did Queensland’s poobah of public health (and governor to be) Jeannette Young say today? Really…
The strange religiosity of Covid compliance
Something has gone badly wrong with the Established Church when it appears more indignant at the breaking of social distance…
Is communism authoritarian capitalism?
On July 1, 1921, the founding congress of the Chinese Communist party was held in Shanghai, when 12 men gathered in…
What do Extinction Rebellion have against a free press?
One can only hope that the profound political thinkers of Extinction Rebellion took care not to dump cow manure on…
