It’s time to give 16-year-olds the vote
The UK has ‘handed the vote’ to 16-year-olds in a move that has been seen as Sir Keir Starmer trying…
Umbrellas and allies: a Venetian parable for the PM
I’m going to pack an umbrella for Venice this week. Last time I was there, an angry grey sky closed…
Why are the Macrons bothering to sue Candace Owens?
What’s the best novel you’ve read all summer? For Cockburn it’s the more than 200-page complaint that Emmanuel Macron and…
How I wrote the newest Sherlock Holmes novel
I don’t think anyone has ever come up with a word to describe an authorized author. It’s not quite a…
Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping
When it comes to protests against immigration and asylum hotels, accusations of two-tier policing are never far away. This week…
Migrant relocation rumours spark Canary Wharf protest
Uh oh. Protests have broken out outside an empty Canary Wharf hotel after claims began to circulate that migrants were…
James O’Brien has disgraced himself
For a man who wrote a book called How To Be Right, James O’Brien sure gets a lot wrong. Consider…
What I saw at Ozzy’s last gig
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath did something British groups had not done before. Before them, the British Invasion groups –…
How Britain ended up in the Afghan asylum mess
The Afghan data leak has generated a mass of lurid headlines and, no doubt, there is still much analysis, pointing…
The US trade deal may come too late for Japan’s prime minister
Relief. That was the overriding emotion in the Japanese financial markets and society at large today when, after months of…
Trump’s Japan deal is a hollow victory
The reaction of markets to the US trade deal with Japan shows yet again that if you presage bad news…
Cleverly refuses to back Badenoch on ECHR
Kemi Badenoch might have reached an agreement with James Cleverly about his new role in the shadow cabinet, but it…
Cabinet ministers urge Starmer to recognise Palestine
Parliament may have risen for recess but that doesn’t mean that Sir Keir Starmer is getting much of a break.…
The question that won’t go away
Now, more than ever, Australia should remember its history and the decisions made by our earlier Prime Ministers, Billy Hughes…
Ozzy Osbourne, the accidental rock star
To conjure an image of England on Thursday 16 October 1969 you could do worse than compressing all of Withnail and…
Who does Colbert think he’s kidding?
David Letterman, who by now has retreated into full comedy-hermit mode, posted a bunch of old Late Show clips on…
Russiagate was worse than we thought
Yesterday, I wrote about the revelations with which Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, electrified the world. We had all…
Australians reject Albanese’s Welcome to Country
Albanese’s re-elected government was already on the nose before Parliament returned, and yet one of its first acts was to…
I work in the NHS: the government cannot accept doctors’ pay demands
Junior doctors are set to strike, despite winning little public sympathy with their demand for a 29 per cent pay…
Tim Davie isn’t fit to lead the BBC
Those within the BBC might be afraid to say so, but an ex-producer like me has no such qualms: Tim…
The trouble with Gillian Anderson
Imagine, for a moment, that a respected middle-aged British male character actor – Jason Isaacs, let’s say – had been…
Australia, the Switzerland of the South Pacific
Peta Credlin has speculated that Albanese would like Australia to be a neutral Switzerland of the South Pacific ‘but without…
Don’t eat the seed corn, Jim
If Jim Chalmers increases the tax burden on capital gains, it would mark the biggest backflip on a tax pledge…
