Sturgeon’s foreign policy power grab

17 April 2021 5:47 am

There is certainly a lot to catch the eye in the SNP’s manifesto published on Thursday. If you look you…

The Northern Ireland Protocol is untenable

16 April 2021 11:00 pm

The process that delivered us the Northern Ireland Protocol already seems to have been rewritten in official memory. It suits…

What happened when the trans mob came for Robert Webb?

16 April 2021 9:54 pm

Robert Webb is best known for making people laugh, but he conducted himself with poise and grace when he was…

Biden’s UN flambassador

16 April 2021 9:37 pm

The US federal government may very well be the most complex human undertaking in existence, an immortal leviathan with millions…

Sailors and half-clad women? No! Whoever would have thought of it?

16 April 2021 3:56 pm

To twerk or not to twerk? That is the question. I wonder what the Bard would think? Australia has its…

You won’t be missed tomorrow, Meghan

16 April 2021 1:30 pm

As members of the Royal family gather to mourn and celebrate the remarkable life of Prince Philip it is entirely…

Be careful who you’re calling racist

16 April 2021 12:11 pm

When Swinburne University academic Dr Stephane Shepherd co-authored a paper with fellow Swinburne scholar Dr Benjamin Spivak on the high…

Woke capitalism’s Texas showdown

16 April 2021 7:41 am

We live in the wackiest of times, when woke corporate leaders should propagandize for promoting ‘racial equity’. They tried it…

Big government is watching you

16 April 2021 4:00 am

Sexual issues have come to dominate the news cycle. This week’s headlines have been dominated by Christine Holgate. Last week…

Trudeau’s Canada hit by Covid third wave

16 April 2021 2:39 am

It was just two days ago that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau was claiming in his country’s parliament that Britain was ‘facing a…

Why do Ben & Jerry’s want to defund the police?

16 April 2021 12:27 am

The radicalisation of the Ben & Jerry’s PR department has been one of the stranger spectacles of recent years. After…

The royal redemption of Prince Andrew

16 April 2021 12:24 am

Seventeen months is clearly long enough, as far as Prince Andrew is concerned, to spend in the royal wilderness. While…

Labour’s union trouble

15 April 2021 11:40 pm

It’s arguably been a good week for Labour, as the Tory party becomes more and more implicated in the Greensill…

How much of a threat is the South African variant?

15 April 2021 10:28 pm

For residents of six London boroughs, as well as those in Smethwick in the West Midlands, the partial relaxation of…

The SNP cannot win a mandate for indyref2

15 April 2021 9:47 pm

This week’s Holyrood election debate should not be allowed to pass without noting how it highlighted the dismal state of…

Magda versus the Morrisons – and more

15 April 2021 7:35 pm

On A Current Affair Magda Szubanski said it was ok for her to criticize Jenny Morrison because of the growing…

Twerking towards Gomorrah

15 April 2021 7:32 pm

Against my better judgement, I watched on as a bunch of scantily clad performers in red and black tights, topped…

China is focused on import quotas, Australia is focused on gender quotas.

15 April 2021 3:52 pm

Hubris. A noun meaning overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance. From the Ancient Greek describing a personality quality of extreme or…

Big Tech bans people who discuss election fraud. That’s a bad idea

15 April 2021 2:26 pm

Big Tech really doesn’t want people to talk about alleged voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. I warned that…

Beware claims of a gender electoral apocalypse

15 April 2021 2:06 pm

“Women abandon Coalition in droves“, a headline says in The Australian today. The story covers data from the Australian Leadership…

I’m not going to play the victim

15 April 2021 4:00 am

As a young girl in the eighties, I had the freedom to be who I wanted to be. I wasn’t…

The strange death of the Democrats

15 April 2021 3:14 am

The Democratic party is dying. That may be hard to believe since Democrats control both houses of Congress and won…

Merkel’s radical lockdown plan could quickly backfire

15 April 2021 2:53 am

In its flailing response to the Covid crisis, the German government appears to have finally given up on federalism. Angela…

How Star Trek can help beat the SNP

15 April 2021 1:32 am

I’m a big fan of Star Trek. Something to do with being raised on a heavy diet of sci-fi, leading…

Sturgeon’s hard border with England comes into view

15 April 2021 12:26 am

When it comes to making the case for removing Scotland from its most important trading bloc, Nicola Sturgeon takes her…