What’s the true cost of lockdown?
Mental health has always been the pauper when it came to medical provision and its sufferers long stigmatised. Some well-meaning…
Racial sensitivity training turned me into a confused racist
The Black Lives Matter movement has put racial sensitivity at the top of the agenda. A new atmosphere of moral…
There is no greater taboo than perceived insensitivity to Aboriginal Australia, so why the constant cries of racism?
“Burn the f…ing place down!” screams the angry young Aboriginal woman on the TV screen (in a red dress and…
Do we want to follow St Jacinda and price our industry out of existence?
Rio Tinto’s announced closure of its aluminium smelter in New Zealand due to uncompetitive power prices this week is a…
We are killing more people because of lockdown than we are saving
While it’s tempting, and even invigorating, to experience a shiver of schadenfreude at the resurgence of COVID-19 in Victoria on…
Harping on Harper’s
Earlier this week, a motley assortment of about 150 sententious bourgeois liberals, joined by a couple of Chamberlain conservatives, diminished…
Can Biden avoid the debates?
In an opinion column for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman proposes that Joe Biden debate Donald Trump only if…
Kanye for president? Ye, he can
Kanye West is a great artist. But would he make a great president? Kanye and Trump are certainly similar. They…
How rich is Trump?
The celebrations by Donald Trump’s opponents may be premature. Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that he is not above the…
How the Supreme Court became the ‘most dangerous branch’
From 1969 to today, presidents have appointed eighteen men and women to the U.S. Supreme Court. Of those eighteen justices,…
Karen jokes aren’t funny any more
What’s in a name? Answer: if it’s Karen, quite a lot. Over the past week my moniker has come to…
Is Boris brave enough to stand up to the Nimbys?
In the next few weeks, the government will publish planning reforms designed to simplify the system and free up land…
Target for half of kids to go to university dropped
In a sign of how worried the government is about youth unemployment, it will – quiet literally – pay firms…
Watch: Huawei execs grilled on Hong Kong
A handful of Huawei executives testified in front of the Commons’ Science and Technology Committee on Thursday morning, to discuss…
Gavin Williamson is right to call out educational snobbery
Politicians give speeches all the time, but with differing levels of significance. Can you think of a genuinely important political…
The woke: disregarding goodness in the absence of perfection
There was a time when our celebrities didn’t feel like they had to join the madding crowds and rush to…
‘Whitelisting’ banned in Whitehall
Brexit, coronavirus and an upcoming Whitehall shake-up is enough to keep the Cabinet Office busy – but it seems some civil…
Is Prince Harry really prepared to face up to the Commonwealth’s past?
When people such as Prince Harry say they want us to face up to the past, do they really mean it?…
Mr Andrews, tear down this wall
A few things immediately sprang to my mind this morning as I awoke to my city surrounded by rings of…
The latest in woke censorship: it’s only cancel culture when the cancellers say so
Meanjin online has published a piece by Eileen Chong, “Representations”, explaining why she demanded a short story written by Stuart…
When Ann Coulter met Jeffrey Epstein…
In an interview last week with Breitbart News Tonight, Ann Coulter revealed a curious episode from her past in which…
Halle Berry and the death of acting
Quick bit of movie trivia: what do actors Felicity Huffman, Eddie Redmayne, Hillary Swank, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Glenn Close, Jeffrey…
The death – and rebirth – of the newspaper?
Everybody, whatever side of politics they are on, generally agrees that the media is one of the reasons that politics…
Don’t panic about the UK’s high debt
Last week the Prime Minister focused on ‘build, build, build’. For the Chancellor, it was ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ on Wednesday…
Are whistleblowers being silenced at the NHS gender clinic?
The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust carries out some of the most…
