Australian democracy – a quick health check
Forgetting the election result (if only that episode of political self-harm could be forgotten), how is Australia’s democratic health looking…
Has Serbia really fallen foul of Moscow?
Is it getting harder for Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić to maintain his balancing act between Moscow and the West? Why…
Hermer admits Nazi comments were ‘clumsy’
As if the Attorney General hadn’t proven his ability for conjuring up negative headlines enough, Lord Hermer took it upon…
The growing militancy of the BMA
To understand what’s really going on with the latest British Medical Association strike threat – it is currently balloting 50,000…
Britain’s Gulf trade deal is not the place for virtue signalling
Rachel Reeves announced that a trade deal with the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) – in other words, Saudi Arabia and…
Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ at Reform won’t work
It is an axiom of political debate that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have definitely lost…
Starmer’s welfare cuts are nothing like ‘Tory austerity’
Keir Starmer has already folded on the winter fuel payment, promising a partial reversal of the policy by reinstating it…
Labour ministers averaging a union meeting a day
Whatever happened to that £22bn black hole, eh? As yet more pay rises are dolled out to workers across the country…
Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ shows his naivety
Amid talk of a summer reshuffle, I recently asked a senior member of the Labour party if he thought the…
The case for looking back in anger
Last week marked the anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing – the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil since the 7/7…
Why the Japanese don’t believe Fukushima is safe
Soil samples from Fukushima, the prefecture where Japan’s Dai-Ichi Nuclear reactor exploded in 2011 sending plumes of radioactive material into…
Will the economy save the Tories?
This week Dominic Cummings said the Tories may have ‘crossed the event horizon’. He was trying to find a tech…
America is coming for Britain’s social media censors
In 2021, after the barbaric Islamist murder of Sir David Amess MP, the response of Britain’s political class was as…
Scotland’s Ecocide Bill is pure moral posturing
Here we go again. The Scottish parliament risks embarking on yet another exercise in legislative virtue signalling: the Labour MSP…
Introducing One Nation’s first WA Senator, Tyron Whitten
One Nation is officially the most successful conservative minor party following the recent election. Today I spoke with Tyron Whitten,…
Tariffs will make America poorer
Is life worse today than it was 50 years ago? According to a Pew Research survey, 58 percent of respondents…
The specter of communism still looms over the Balkans
Our Serbian guide Zoran is a jovial fellow and as we rumble through the streets of Belgrade in our minibus…
Senior Tories plan candidate overhaul
There are many justifiable criticisms of how the Tories ran candidate selection for the last election. On the day that…
Ex-Royal Marine charged over Liverpool crash
To Liverpool, where former Royal Marine Paul Doyle has been charged over the car crash that injured almost 80 people…
Trumpworld’s embrace of crypto should raise suspicion
“It’s been quite a while since I’ve been to a conference with this level of energy… I promise I’m not…
Is Elon Musk OK?
Elon Musk understands astrophysics, yet seems to have failed to grasp the strange laws of gravity which govern Washington politics.…
How Elon Musk profited from his time in government
Nobody wants to buy his cars anymore. He has been too distracted to pay any attention to his companies and…
One Nation claims two Senate seats with Malcolm Roberts re-elected
This evening, the AEC has completed the counts as far as seat allocations go for Western Australia and Queensland. It…
Trust me: Trump’s revolution is coming to the UK
Oxford and Cambridge When I was growing up, people often said British politics were where America’s would be in five,…
Labour has launched a galling attack on nature
During the last Conservative government, it was common to hear the refrain that the prime minister of the day was waging a…
