The Age’s strange but short-lived honesty
For weeks now the “Independent. Always.” Melbourne Age has been recycling Greens Party talking points — sorry, let’s be specific…
There is another…
David Flint is part of the chorus demanding that our Dear Leader do the right thing and resign as Prime…
Their ABC thinks it’s time for a women-only parliament
Grandiose sweeping statements from their ABC are becoming increasingly bombastic and more comical. “Democracy is failing its brief with its…
Fairfax, Folau and FitzSimons
The Fairfax papers has become so strident in their LGBTIQ advocacy that they cannot tolerate anyone having a view other…
Since when has the taxman ever been a friend?
It is curious that Australians can be so apathetic about high taxation. Being still in the final stages of the…
‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello. Wot’s this ‘ere ‘ate crime going on, then?
Have no fear. The good old British bobby’s here. Meanwhile, London’s Daily Telegraph reports: While both London and New York have…
Why London’s soaring murder rate is everyone’s problem
Any notion that the surge in killings in London was a problem confined to gang members has been dispelled by…
Portrait of the Week: Corbyn and Jewdas and Kim Jong-un’s visit to South Korea
Home Alison Saunders said she would relinquish her position as the Director of Public Prosecutions when her five-year contract ends…
Warner and Smith are paying for the sins of a generation of Australian cricket players
When the much-admired (and very tall) literary agent Gillon Aitken died in October 2016, he left most of his estate…
Putin’s diseased ideology
The Russian economy is not in the greatest of shapes. That being the case, one would have thought friendly diplomatic…
Letters: the very belief that poorer pupils do less well is what limits them
Self-limiting beliefs Sir: As someone who spent much of his working life teaching at Eton and Harrow, it was amusing…
Labour moderates are desperate to leave – but there’s nowhere to go
The case for Labour moderates leaving their party strengthens by the day. Jeremy Corbyn’s behaviour demonstrates that he is not…
Corbyn, anti-Semitism and the righteous vanity of Tony Benn
What is it, psychologically, that makes it so hard for Jeremy Corbyn to recognise that some of his supporters are…
The DPP’s Alison Saunders was never much cop
An interesting development for our police force, then. In future they do not have to believe everything someone tells them,…
Has Virgin trains lost the plot?
Twelve minutes till the train. That had seemed like quite enough time as I approached the Virgin ticket machine. Two…
Why a Big Oil row tells us it’s time to stop fetishising experts
Something extraordinary and largely unreported has just happened in a court in San Francisco. A federal judge has said that…
Call this US-China tit-for-tat a trade war?
‘Stocks plunge as China hits US goods with tariffs,’ said a headline after the long weekend, and the FTSE100 duly…
Red London: Labour is poised to take the capital
Ever since last year’s general election, when Jeremy Corbyn inspired the strongest Labour surge since 1945, the Conservatives have been…
Sadiq Khan is a lousy London Mayor. Why hasn’t anyone noticed?
According to people at City Hall, Sadiq Khan writes some of his own press releases. I can believe it: they’ve…
We need 10,000 tigers in the wild
I am here in India looking for tigers, and am struck by the way my fellow human beings respond to…
I take no pleasure in seeing England get all out for 58
‘Ah, the old man injury!’ That’s what people said when I busted my calf a couple of years ago. At…
Macron’s Thatcher moment has arrived
The honeymoon is over for Emmanuel Macron. His first 11 months in office have been something of a breeze —…
How to be a tourist in Europe
Last week, I was in the Florence Baptistery by 8.30 a.m. That used to be early enough to avoid the…
Southend-on-Sea has long been a running joke – until now
Standing at the end of Britain’s longest pier, on a cold and misty morning, looking out across the Thames Estuary,…
1968 and the summer of our discontent
’68 will do as shorthand. Most of ’68, as it were, didn’t happen in 1968. It was, at most, the…
