Time to lead, conservatively
The list of unresolved and vexed issues that confront the new parliament this week would be enough to give even…
Time to lead, conservatively
The list of unresolved and vexed issues that confront the new parliament this week would be enough to give even…
Oil prices will drift down again as Opec fails to get its act together
How many Olympic medals did Opec win? The answer (though I’ll bet no one else has bothered to work this…
Osborne’s gone. So why’s Carney still around?
Did you see that odd photo of George Osborne looking shifty, queuing up in the Vietnamese jungle for the chance…
The Boris-bashers should be ashamed
Throughout this fractious summer, one thing has united all the warring pundits and politicians. Left, right; Leave, Remain, everyone at…
When autumn comes
You know when late summer has arrived because conkers are starting to form on the horse chestnuts, your eagerness to…
Mussolini at Lake Como
If your destiny is to be shot dead with your mistress, where better than Lake Como, which, in the words…
Frankenstein’s Westmonster
All political parties are a mess: coalitions of people with different beliefs, stitched together — like Frankenstein’s monster — into…
Why I’ll keep cheering for Caster Semenya
An almost worldwide survey on penis length — the sort of thing I always read with a sense of trepidation…
What is behind the left’s sympathy for Islamist right?
In 2015 Nick Cohen announced his ‘resignation‘ from the left in protest at its open support for the Islamist extreme-right.…
What do we want? Less free speech!
For years comedians across America have been lamenting the suffocating political correctness sweeping their country. This growing aversion “offensive” views,…
Time for business to remember its values and cut the Kofi breaks
Back in the days when Kofi Anan possessed the biggest blue helmet of them all as UN Secretary General, a…
Good governance goes to the dogs with Baird’s barking mad policy
New South Wales Premier Mike Baird appears to be emulating characters from American history with his barking mad bill banning…
Indigenous disadvantage: time for a royal commission into why good intentions achieve so little?
It might well be Chrenkoff’s First Law of Welfare that all the poverty- and disadvantage-reducing government programs are most successful…
The plight of the middle class white girl
When the noxious Left are in full self-righteous flight, the societal archetype they show the most contempt for is the…
Imperial pint of champagne
Jonathan Ray gives a heartening update on the campaign to bring back the imperial pint of champagne When the Spectator…
The real Gosford Anglican Church outrage
None of us are wanting for a reason to abhor Nick Folkes’s stunt at the Gosford Anglican Church. It was…
Toxic masculinity, noxious lies
It’s one of the most pervasive and dangerous myths propagated by radical feminism: that our culture of ‘toxic masculinity’ has…
Waleed Aly’s indigenous deaths in custody myth
Waleed Aly has again taken to his favourite medium – the smug rant – ignoring facts to push a popular…
The Capability controversy
In a piece of light verse from the 1770s ‘Dame Nature’ — out strolling ‘one bright day’ — bumps into…
Even Gillard got her Census right
In 14AD, the Roman Emperor Tiberius, an unlovable man who succeeded the far superior Augustus, successfully managed a census of…
Barometer
Four-letter surveys A judge at Chelmsford Crown Court who was sworn at by a man she was sentencing to jail…
It’s fatuous to outlaw an emotion – especially hate
A man in Austria has been sentenced to three months in prison for posting a picture of his cat on…
Above the law
Because no country can interfere in another’s legal system, there is little the UK can do to help the six…
2274: Round and round
The perimeter squares yield six theme-words in order, though any one of them can come first. The remaining unclued lights…
