Did Trump win the US-EU trade negotiations?
Trump has got almost everything he wanted in the trade deal between the United States and the European Union. Goods…
Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age
Australia is quietly abandoning one of its most sacred inheritances: the right to speak freely. In its place, we are…
Albo’s TikTok dilemma
Chinese social media giant TikTok is set to launch a constitutional challenge to Australia’s controversial social media ban for under…
Israel is not the problem, Mr Albanese
Why, when Mr Albanese observed that Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, did he immediately blame the…
Sunday shows round-up: Labour is ‘committed to the recognition of Palestine’
James Murray: ‘You can only recognise a state once’ France’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine at the next…
Senators Price and Cash are the true wealth of the Coalition
You have to hand it to the Labor Party… Last week they scaled previously unexplored heights of hypocrisy. Senator Penny…
From glory to decline, a brighter future ahead
For more than four decades, the people of Iran have not seen diplomatic behaviour based on national interests and the…
The Cotswolds is a Potemkin England
Have you heard the one where the vice president of the United States and a lesbian former talk show host…
Britain needs to embrace crypto with its own Genius Act
In proposing to sell the government’s £5 billion hoard of Bitcoin – accumulated from confiscating the proceeds of crime –…
Falling victim to a hate crime taught me a dark lesson about Europe
As a Brit, and in spite of a little Brexaustion, I hold a certain romanticised view of central Europe. I…
How Trump helped Venezuela’s Maduro bounce back
For someone widely believed to have lost a presidential election just a year ago, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is looking remarkably…
Well done, Labor
Congratulations Australian Labor! As directionless as they are, and notwithstanding only managing to earn the vote of fewer than 3.5…
Is a keffiyeh really an appropriate outfit for a Cambridge University ceremony?
Cambridge University’s decision to honour the rap artist Stormzy with an honorary doctorate seemed odd. New universities, rather than our…
Why Zelensky reversed his anti-corruption overhaul
On Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved a law to gut Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies. On Thursday he backtracked, and said he would put…
How middle-class shoplifting swept Britain
Middle-class shoplifting is pushing up high street prices, according to Dame Diana Johnson, the policing and crime minister. Can she…
Is this CS Lewis’ most prescient work?
It’s been 80 years since CS Lewis’ remarkably prescient, That Hideous Strength, was published. The final book in a sci-fi trilogy,…
Lawfare is the SAS’s most dangerous enemy
It might at first glance appear odd that this deeply unpopular government is determined to repeal the Northern Ireland Legacy…
Tipping point to socialism
The term ‘tipping point’ is much over-used, especially by the doomsday alarmist climate cult, to the degree where people have…
Unintended consequences and the silence of the lawyers
The legal profession must not shirk its responsibility to prevent harm
Australian notes
Has Labor finally become the natural party of government? This would once have seemed an absurd question to someone of…
