David Davis: Scotland – A deficit of power and accountability
For the past few months, Scotland has been transfixed by the Holyrood inquiry seeking the truth of what went wrong…
The media dies in lies
The Washington Post issued a mammoth correction this week on a story about Donald Trump’s search for election fraud. The…
MPs question Johnson’s plan for Global Britain
Boris Johnson still has a journalist’s ear for snappy phrases — levelling up, an oven-ready Brexit, Global Britain. The PM…
Blood in the water
Tibet is a glass of water balanced at the top of the world. It occupies the crumple zone leftover from…
Why isn’t Britain adopting the Danish roadmap?
Denmark’s greatest philosopher, Søren Kirkegaard, experienced only one epidemic in his lifetime, the cholera outbreak of 1853, which occurred after…
Don’t blame the EU for the latest Covid vaccine clash
Far from subsiding, as it seemed to be doing last week, the European war over the AstraZeneca vaccine has intensified.…
Boris’s China plan is a missed opportunity
From Brexit to China, ‘cakeism’ – the idea that it is possible to govern without making hard choices – appears…
Support for Merkel’s party is crumbling
On Sunday, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) suffered a historic election defeat in their former heartlands of…
Tucker Carlson is the new Trump — because there is nobody else
‘Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump.’ So said CNN’s Brian Stelter on his Sunday program, Reliable Sources. Stelter was…
We shouldn’t forget the horrific crimes of Isis returnees
Summer 2015. A five-year-old girl is chained up and left outside in the desert sun in Fallujah, Iraq – a…
In defence of Charlie Hebdo’s ‘racist royals’ cover
Amid the ongoing fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive Oprah interview, Charlie Hebdo seems to have done the…
Not all Americans are on Team Meghan
The press is awash with reports of the disgust and distaste of the American public towards the UK, in particular…
Labor won in the West for all the worst reasons
Sometime towards the end of 2008, former Prime Minister John Howard came to Perth to give a speech on human…
Is the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine safe? A doctor’s view
One of the few positives to have come out of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the remarkable speed at which…
No wonder ScoMo’s cautious
“We’ve been on narrow paths before, colleagues, and we’ve walked them together,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told the joint Coalition…
Victorian Liberal MPs: you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things
Earlier today, a motion to spill the Victorian opposition leadership of Michael O’Brien failed to get the numbers after challenger…
How singer Sam Smith cancelled himself
In a classic case of unintended consequences, non-binary singer Sam Smith will find himself neither here nor there when awards…
Scottish Tories must be more than the angry party of no
Among the many challenges facing Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has been the question of definition. It is difficult to…
Inside the £2.9 million Downing Street press room
This afternoon ITV got the scoop they were all after – pictures of the elusive Downing Street press conference room. The…
The twisted logic of Shamima Begum’s defenders
Shamima Begum is back in the news. Firstly because she’s had a makeover. She can be seen on the front…
Is Europe punishing Britain for its vaccine success?
Is it health and safety — or grubby EU vs Brexit politics? That’s the guessing game going on all the…
Cancel culture and the left’s long march
Last week Manchester University in Britain published a ‘Guide to Inclusive Language’ that proves, once again, how successful the cultural-left…
The war on ‘normal’
The long arm of cancel culture now threatens to reach over the shower screen to police any politically-incorrect thoughts we have as…
Will Boris Johnson take responsibility for the Union?
Even for a virtual party conference, Boris Johnson’s speech to the Scottish Tories was a muted affair. As might be…
March of anger is a political power play, nothing more
Today, thousands of people took part in 40 planned rallies across Australia, supposedly to demand action on “violence against women”. But, here’s the…
