Keir Starmer makes it onto the Labour leadership ballot: who else will join him?
Keir Starmer has made it through to the final round of the Labour leadership contest, having secured the backing of…
Economics: throw out the male, pale and stale and we’ll have utopia. Apparently…
The latest stroke of identity politics disingenuity is directed at the study of economics. In a self-flagellating piece written for the…
Nobody cares who The New York Times endorses
There’s conceit, there’s pomposity, and then there’s the New York Times editorial board. Yesterday, the Grey Lady wiggled her well-connected bottom,…
Why secession beckons
The craziness of our politics makes you wonder what’s round the bend. After the ‘resistance’, the pussy hats, the non-stop…
Harry has deserted the Royal Marines in their hour of need
I have been trying with considerable success not to give two hoots about this Harry and Meghan thing. But a…
Better sharpen up, Scotty. Albo’s in a fighting mood
In recent days Anthony Albanese has announced major shifts in the policy and ideological stances of the Labor Party, ditching…
Margaret Court, the Australian Open – and Tennis Australia’s closed, cowed minds
So much for our world that continually preaches tolerance, diversity and acceptance. Whenever someone does not fit the Left’s current…
Yassmin’s back, pockets full of our cash for her exhibitionist victimhood
While Aussies have been battling devastating bushfires, a certain someone has been kicking back in her designer gear, feet up,…
Renewables rent-seekers aren’t interested in bushfire prevention – or cheap efficient energy
No amount of mouth-frothing by Piers Morgan or artful deception by the legions of renewable energy warriors published by the…
Forget moving the Lords – lets have an elected senate instead
In two weeks’ time, we will finally escape the European Union, freeing ourselves from its monumental waste. Waste, that is,…
The delusion of the born-again Brexiteers
As 31 January looms, I’ve been thinking about how to bring the country back together again after we’ve left the…
Megxit: meet the new Obamas
If only the Queen had been in charge of Brexit we may have avoided rolling heads, rolling eyes and years…
How good is climate science!
Steering the ship of state isn’t the easiest experience. Not only is it a matter of always tacking between Scylla and…
Harry & Meghan have won – and the monarchy has lost
The ‘third way’ of being a senior royal – representing the Queen one day, earning serious money the next, was…
The Queen tells Harry: out means out
In the end, it took just over a week for Prince Harry to announce and finalise the terms of his…
On Brexit, no one quite knows where Boris is taking us
I am not going to lie: I am bored sick with Brexit. Like so many of you, I have become…
Impeachment? As Bill Clinton once said, Mr President, I feel your pain
It’s excruciating. My eye rolls are so severe and unstoppable that my eyelids are sore. My forehead is red from…
Treating oil companies as pariahs will kill off any green revolution
When fossil fuel divestment was merely a gesture by universities, the Church of England and the Prince of Wales it…
Portrait of the week: Harry and Meghan quit, America avoids war and the Labour leadership race begins
Home The Queen agreed to ‘a period of transition’ during which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would spend time…
I was joking about Meghan and Harry becoming king and queen of Canada
Washington, D.C. On 8 January, I tweeted about the Sussex-Markles: ‘Obviously the plan is to return to Canada, lead a…
How can Harry and Meghan cash in?
Royal flush The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have registered the trademark ‘Sussex Royal’ as part of their plan to…
Does ‘equality’ mean the same to Rebecca Long-Bailey as it did to Plato?
The candidates battling for the leadership of the Labour party never stop banging on about ‘social justice’ and ‘equality’. But…
Letters: I was once on Prince Harry’s side. Not any more
On child care Sir: Your recent editorial deplores, among other things, the cost of child care, to which you attribute…
Anyone for a Sussex Royal potato?
Earlier this week, we accompanied our daughter-in-law, Hannah, to her British citizenship ceremony, she having passed the necessary tests. (Hannah…
Why the cabinet reshuffle might not be so radical after all
Prime ministers are never more powerful than just before a cabinet reshuffle. Ministers fall over themselves to be helpful, hoping…
