A tribute to Prince Philip, 1921-2021
Prince Philip played a pivotal, yet often underestimated, role in ensuring the survival of the modern British monarchy. His self-confidence…
Starmer’s Labour is following the French Socialists into oblivion
Why does Keir Starmer seem set on following the example of the French Socialist party, and leading Labour into electoral…
Biden’s backhanded bid to kill Nord Stream 2
Washington, D.C. is universally known as a town divided, a place where compromise and dialogue are often sacrificed at the…
The Northern Independence Party’s Hartlepool woes
Oh dear, it all seemed to be going so well for the ‘Northern Independence Party’, a Corbynite breakaway outfit standing…
What China wants from Britain
What are we to do about China? To turn a phrase beloved by the Chinese Communist party (CCP) on its…
A handy guide to vaccine passports
Soon, we will have to show vaccine passports to pass through covid checkpoints placed outside workplaces, football grounds, theatres and…
What’s woke this week?
In the new woke order racism is everywhere. Systems of law hide ‘coded language’ and discrimination. Educational institutions deliver ‘unequal…
A windfall tax would only hurt our weakened economy
The calls for tax hikes is ramping up. Last December the Wealth Tax Commission recommended a ‘one-off’ 5 per cent…
Why do activists only want a certain type of woman in politics?
“Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Over the last century,…
Vaccine ‘passports’: a legal and ethical minefield
On Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined his ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. An important aspect of this plan is…
The relentless campaign to smear Ron DeSantis
Say what you want about the media in 2021, they never let a dream die. For over a year now,…
Could Holyrood ever be abolished?
Although Alex Salmond and his Alba party have understandably been getting most of the attention, the separatists aren’t the only…
Boris will need Labour support for vaccine passports
No prime minister wants to be dependent on the opposition to get the government’s business through the House of Commons.…
Is the writing on the wall for the AstraZeneca vaccine?
It was the great British scientific triumph: an example of how big pharma can work altruistically for the good of…
The real problem with Macron’s elite school
President Emmanuel Macron announced today the closure of the notorious École Nationale d’Administration, the elite finishing school for the senior…
Northern Ireland’s sink estates are fertile ground for fundamentalists
Northern Ireland is routinely voted one of the happiest places to live in the UK. A few weeks ago, a…
Berlin has been bounced into accepting Sputnik
Munich has had enough of the vaccine chaos in Berlin and Brussels. In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, Bavaria’s minister…
Russia’s Sputnik vaccine is causing political chaos in Central Europe
A joke is doing the rounds in the Czech Republic that the world’s highest Covid mortality rate can, in actual…
Imran Khan’s cowardly response to Pakistan’s rape crisis
Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan has once again blamed women for an appalling rise in rape cases. Khan used a televised question…
JobKeeper: dead, buried, cremated – and irrelevant
The corona-crisis has given birth to a mishmash of public policy programs with ‘Job’ in the title, but there is…
How should we honour the ‘angels’ of the Holocaust when they’re gone?
Yom HaShoa is Israel and the Jewish people’s day of remembrance for the Shoa, or Holocaust. It falls this year…
The Cuba of the Southern Hemisphere?
Ever since the radical privately-funded and owned Museum of Old and New Art, MONA, opened, Tasmania has gone through first…
The future of the Euro is uncertain
A decade ago, Europe clambered out of the 2008/09 financial crisis only to fall into the sovereign debt crisis of…
The Tax Office gives the gold finger to process and justice
How would you feel if you owed the Australian Taxation Office nothing—in fact the ATO owed you money—yet on the…
Asa Hutchinson commits cable news seppuku
Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson came under fire early this week for vetoing a bill that would prohibit doctors from providing…
