Reform is now a left-wing party
How much longer are Reform’s critics going to be able to get away with calling it a right-wing party? It…
Is Jim Chalmers’ super tax turning Teal seats blue?
Believe it or not, the battle for the blue ribbon in Goldstein is still going on. Yesterday, the AEC announced…
Are there more Chagos-style surrenders to come?
Broadly speaking, there are two responses to Keir Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands. The first is indignation. This is…
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ will raise the risk of attack on US
President Trump and his administration are advancing plans for their version of a homeland missile defense system, dubbed the “Golden…
(A failed) Australian realignment
Australia is due a political realignment. The split in the Liberal-National coalition this week could be a good thing if…
No, James Corden: London doesn’t want a mayor like you
Clown. It’s a great word, and I use it often. Though not a great fan of emojis, the clown face…
What happened to Labour’s racial equality agenda?
The ‘eradication of structural racism would be a defining cause’ of Labour’s time in power. That’s what Keir Starmer said…
The ECHR is not Churchill’s court
Is the European Court of Human Rights a foreign court? For the former diplomat Lord Hannay of Chiswick, this ‘lamentable, dog-whistle nomenclature is…
Should starvation ever be used as a weapon of war?
Sorry to disappoint antisemites, but Operation Starvation is not an Israeli plan to murder millions of Palestinians; it was a…
Disposable vapes save lives. Why ban them?
In a week’s time, it will be illegal to sell disposable vapes in Britain. Politicians from both parties will pat…
It isn’t right-wing to worry about our falling birthrates
Births in the United Kingdom are halving every 55 years. While headlines still focus on overpopulation – driven by urban…
The tyranny of GCSEs
Deep within the workings of an electric motor lies a split-ring commutator. It reverses the current flowing through the coil…
How to save the Church of England
The Church of England’s various travails and dilemmas – on controversial issues, like sexuality and safeguarding – are on one…
Why Iran wants a deal with Trump
For Iran, the re-election of Donald Trump in November 2024 was its worst nightmare. Waking up the morning after the…
Why did the Met arrest a Jewish man for mocking Hezbollah?
It’s the 21st century and Jews are being arrested for making fun of fascists. The Telegraph has revealed that last…
The optimism of younger countries
There’s a strange, near-psychedelic effect that hits you when you travel from an aging country to a young one. It’s…
Britain has wronged the Chagossians again
I could not resist rushing to the High Court to witness the eleventh-hour challenge to the deal to give away…
Socialism dressed up in the politics of empathy
I remember as a teenager in Cairns going to school every day with long hair wearing my blue jeans, black…
Why ‘woke’ is now just a right-wing fetish
There’s been a late entry in the competition for most cretinous misunderstanding of international trade policy. For anyone who’s been…
Officially socialist?
‘The Moloch Machine is a symbol of how, as the technical attitude takes hold, it begins not only to reflect…
Israel is at risk of becoming a global pariah
For years, Israel has been compared – sometimes unjustly – to South Africa. This comparison stems from the concept of…
How to stop secondary schools becoming misery traps
‘Transition’ is a word much bandied about in education circles. No, this is not about gender. Rather, when school staff…
France is waking up to the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood
Emmanuel Macron assembled some of his top ministers at the Élysée on Wednesday. Their purpose was to devise a strategy…
Brussels is dropping a bureaucratic bombshell on Europe
Brussels makes one thing better than anywhere else: regulation. Reporting duties, due diligence checks, ESG disclosures, and endless frameworks for…
Illegal gold mining is blighting Peru
It was gold that brought the Spanish conquistadors to Peru in the 1500s. More than 500 years on and the…
