Boris has a trump card in denying Sturgeon an ‘illegal’ referendum
Amidst all the dry economic arguments, one of the more emotive fronts on which the 2016 referendum was fought was…
Britain’s Covid baby bust is bleak news
These are lean times for hospitality and retail. But at least pubs and shops have their champions, popping up on…
Biden’s bait-and-switch presidency
Joe Biden was elected as a moderate-left Democrat, but he is not governing as one. He pledged repeatedly to work…
Ben Smith gifts Harper’s best subs week ever
Say what you want about the sickness of cancel culture, it can be great for business. Nothing rallies paying readers…
Labor loses the Palestinian plot
The Australian Labor Party has now adopted former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘unconditional recognition’ of Palestine as well as…
Why is New Zealand afraid of criticising China?
It is becoming harder and harder to ignore China’s aggressive behaviour. As I say in the magazine this week, China…
Pfizer trial finds vaccine ‘100% effective’ against South African variant
Pfizer and BioNTech have released some extraordinary findings from a Phase 3 trial involving 46,307 participants, between seven days and…
The problem with our hate crime laws
We have a long experience of dealing with hate crime in Britain. In 1958 nine Teddy boys armed themselves with…
Not an April fools’ joke
Just another day at their ABC, with a typical ABC expert: Professor Danielle Celermajer leads the MultiSpecies Justice project at…
Why are we letting the Reserve Bank make housing less affordable?
It speaks volumes to the lack of ambition in the federal government that it took a first-term senator on the backbench to identify and…
Teena McQueen: in the eyes of the left, conservative women are no better than toxic males
First, it was the patriarchy’s fault. Then, it was the fault of “pale, stale, males”. Next, unsubstantiated historical allegations were…
Guys, your shirt is literally oppressing me
We have come a long way since white chalk exercised the privilege of writing on blackboards. I am pleased to…
Macron’s latest lockdown fiasco
On New Year’s Eve, Emmanuel Macron promised France an economic revival by the Spring. Cancel that. Instead, as the intensive…
Stacey Abrams tells London: yes we Khan
Sadiq Khan is all set to win by a landslide in London, so why not allow a failed election candidate…
Joe Biden and the ‘fourth wave’ mania
Hysteria, thy name is Biden. Or maybe it’s Walensky, named for Dr Rochelle Walensky, aspiring soap opera star and newly…
Why we must beware American senescence
Sometime in the next five years, the Chinese economy will overtake that the United States. China’s workforce may already have…
The curious case of Matt Gaetz
From the moment Matt Gaetz blitzed into Washington in 2016 as a 34-year-old Trump ally, it was clear that the…
Ministers are deciding it’s time to teach the Twits a lesson – and about time
Virtually everyone agrees (other than the psychopaths who populate its sewers) — Twitter has led to a coarsening of debate…
The left’s war against school transparency is a war against choice and quality
NAPLAN scare campaigns about the potential harm of ‘school league tables’ are little more than hot air — often whipped…
Over-egged corona claims overshadow Queensland’s Easter, make authorities look like silly bunnies
Less than a fortnight after Queensland Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young promised Queenslanders there would be no more citywide…
The real Dark Mofo scandal? Its search for shock over substance
Dark Mofo is one of a few — if not the only– arts festival in Australia that still could be…
Joe Biden unmasked
The dim reaper is at it again. We need, President Biden tells us, to wear masks forever, to avoid ‘more…
Whatever happened to responsibility?
In 2009, I became aware, via media reports, of the death of David Iredale, a perfectly fit and healthy 17…
Can we see the vaccine effect?
Britain’s Covid data is moving in the right direction. Today’s update from the Office for National Statistics confirms this on…
How the Sputnik vaccine brought down Slovakia’s Prime Minister
March was a dark month for Slovakia. Covid cases and deaths in the country were among the highest in Europe,…
