Will Lindsay get his chariot back?
As Speaker, John Bercow could never be accused of underselling his position. During his tenure the diminutive parliamentarian attracted criticism…
Bangladesh could pay for failing to crack down on its Islamist threat
Bangladesh turned 50 last week and the country has much to celebrate. Having inherited a dismal GDP growth rate of…
Beijing’s cruel attempt to stop fleeing Hongkongers
The Chinese Communist party regime likes to portray itself as the new superpower, displaying its strength on the world stage.…
Is Macron the new Trump?
For the last three months journalists across the world have been missing the curious mix of bombast, arrogance, untruths and showmanship…
Gove hints at vaccine passport app
It wasn’t so long ago that ministers were lining up on broadcast to insists vaccine passports were out of the…
The dark heart of the cladding scandal has been exposed
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry has exposed the dark heart of the building safety crisis in recent weeks, as it examined…
Has the school co-educational ‘experiment’ failed?
Reading these reports of what has been happening in some co-educational public schools, it’s clear that the trend began way back…
The hills are alive with the sound of white supremacy
The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The…
Body politics
It’s my observation that most women come at politics from a fundamentally different perspective than men – as they do…
The women’s reshuffle
Do a word search of the transcript of the Prime Minister’s reshuffle press conference yesterday and you will find the…
Boris Johnson’s vaccine problem
On the day that people are finally allowed to gather in groups of six outside, tennis games get underway and wild…
When does the media cover a horrific crime?
What makes a tragic death a major news story? The races of the perpetrators and the victims, of course. As…
Trapped in the People’s Republic of Wikipedia
I’m starting to learn what it might be like to live in China but fortunately my experience is actually pretty benign. I’m in a sort…
In praise of David Lammy, a true Englishman
David Lammy, the shadow justice secretary, has been doing his LBC radio phone-in show. If you believe LBC, he has…
The Batley Grammar school row is the perfect jihadist recruitment tool
As controversy continues to rage after pupils were shown an image of the prophet Muhammad by a teacher at Batley Grammar School,…
The Sun sets on toxic masculinity
The Sun newspaper has been on an interesting journey in recent years, ditching its page three girls, drawing up a…
The next stage of the EU’s coronavirus meltdown
Debts would be shared. The strong would offer a helping hand to the weak. Money would be raised at incredibly…
European nations are reasserting themselves
All but the most hardened Remainer will admit that the EU’s vaccine rollout has been poor. Up against the UK’s…
Cambridge comes unstuck on Winnie the Pooh
Oh dear. Over the weekend, Cambridge University’s Twitter account celebrated the graduation of its most recent cohort with some pearls…
How to cancel someone
Cancel culture, I’m sure you’ve heard, is everywhere. Not a day goes by without some sorry sap being caught out…
Why the West should stop investing in China
The Prime Minister has called for an international coalition of free countries to oppose the growing influence of China’s authoritarian…
The school curriculum must focus on learning, not indoctrination
Calls to mandate what is described as ‘consent education’ in the national school curriculum represents the most recent example of…
Scott Morrison is being convicted of the crime of being a decent man
Compare the pair: Scott Morrison and Bill Clinton. Morrison, a prime minister undergoing a horror stretch of what seems a…
You reap what you sow: why Christian Porter may lose his defamation case
You may recall the Attorney-General’s appearance on Q&A in 2015. There Christian Porter metaphorically threw all male victims of domestic violence…
The EU’s decline is self-inflicted
In 1991, at the height of the first Gulf War, the EU demonstrated to the world its divisions and helplessness,…
