Sir Keir was defeated by his own strategy at PMQs
The great thing about being trashed in the polls is that the tiniest improvement looks like a triumphant comeback. At…
Pimlico Academy and the politicisation of the playground
The strange tale of Pimlico Academy, the central London school roiled by ‘anti-racist’ protests, shows us that the culture war…
Hamas, not Israel, is to blame for the latest bloodshed
I was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in Jerusalem and lived in a UN refugee camp from 1966 until…
Inflation is the biggest threat to Boris
The vaccines are rolling out. Lockdown is easing, the EU has been forgotten about, and the Labour party has returned…
London Labour youth wing calls for the abolition of Israel
Pro-Palestine rallies were held across the country at the weekend amid the deteriorating situation in the Middle East. Onetime Labour leader…
The Australian trade deal is about more than just trade
What happens with an Australia trade deal won’t just reveal how serious this country is about free trade but also…
Does getting Covid-19 protect you against reinfection?
How well does prior exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus protect you against reinfection? It has been a hotly-debated subject since…
Shame on the ‘free Palestine’ police officer
Picture the scene. A female police officer — hi-viz police jacket, regulation black hat, facemask slipping from her nose —…
The Red planet
The last thing Mars needs is Communism. When the Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021, it created a state…
What Greenpeace’s ‘Wasteminster’ stunt won’t tell you
Greenpeace has been responsible for many a fatuous stunt over the years, but its latest video has a point. It…
Neil Ferguson’s Indian variant optimism: ‘the curves are flattening’
Amid much gloom in Westminster over the threat posed by the new Covid Indian variant, Mr S was intrigued to…
Germany’s growing extremism problem
On 2 June 2019, a German politician was found lying in a pool of blood outside his home in Hesse.…
So does Clementine Ford also endorse the Mad Mullahs’ views on women?
Clementine Ford is certainly an expert on conflict — picking or provoking fights, anyway — but we didn’t know this…
Andy Burnham is Labour’s king over the water
There are few things so perilous for an under-performing opposition leader as the emergence of a ‘king over the water’.…
Jews pretending to support Israel
Israel is at war. I have many friends and relatives in Israel of all ages and they rush to assure me that…
Our cricket whingers are talking balls
The indefinite shutting of Australia’s international borders is bad policy, no matter how electorally appealing it is for our national…
Biden’s bogey
President Joe Biden hit the golf course for the second time since taking office on Sunday, continuing something of an…
Will we get mugged by the return of inflation?
The recent lift in the United States annual inflation rate to 4.2 per cent, the highest in ten years, has…
The fatal flaw in the Covid travel restrictions
Here are two Covid questions, thrown up by the rate at which the Indian variant is infecting parts of the…
Through the Keirhole: Starmer plots TV drama
Pitch: a struggling politician eager to make his mark. He’s 10 points behind in the polls, leading a fractitious party and struggling…
British MPs are finally engaging with the gender identity debate
I used to write a lot about sex and gender here. I don’t do so quite as much these days…
Boris must stand up to farmers – and back the Australia trade deal
Farms will be devastated. The countryside will be ruined. And we will all be forced to eat weird food that…
The decline and fall of the Associated Press
Once, long ago, in a land far away, the best journalists tried to stand aloof from the stories they reported.…
Bill Gates isn’t a creep. He’s a beta.
Won’t you spare a thought for poor William Henry Gates III? For most of America, the collapse of one’s marriage…
What’s woke this week?
The overarching theme of this week’s woke stories is diversity and inclusion from the tiniest insect to multi-billion dollar corporations. White privilege and bus-stop seating are joined by…
