There was Easter but no truce on Ukraine’s frontline
Kramatorsk, Donetsk region In a wooden Greek-Catholic church on the frontline of a warzone, encircled by red tulips and military…
‘Green Death’ tax from a Labor-Greens minority government?
The Greens don’t want you to succeed. They want to take your money so they can turn Australia into a…
How Pope Francis kept the faith
As timing goes, a pope simply can’t do better than to die just after Easter Sunday. The moral of the…
The Francis effect
Pope Francis was a man of remarkable complexity who cultivated an image of utmost simplicity. He began the moment he…
Pope Francis, the 266th pope, has died
Pope Francis died this morning, Easter Monday, at 7:35 am Rome time, at the age of 88. His last public…
World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis
Pope Francis has died aged 88. At 7.35 a.m., the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ‘returned to the house…
Francis and the Vatican reckoning
Modern popes, for better or for worse, tend to be defined in soundbites. John Paul II’s clarion call of ‘Be…
Pope Francis has died aged 88
Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church, has died aged 88. The Pope had been seriously ill in hospital for…
Let the prisoners cook
After Hashem Abedi allegedly attacked three prison officers with hot cooking oil at HMP Frankland last weekend, there has been…
Keir Starmer’s Easter message wasn’t offensive
Fun though it is to bash Keir Starmer for everything he says or does, there’s surely a point at which…
BBC Bitesize’s communism blindspot
A great exhortation of our times is the need to ‘be kind’. It manifests itself among those who cry ‘refugees…
The plight of Bethlehem
War seldom has true victors – and for Bethlehem, where tourism once accounted for approximately 70 per cent of income,…
It’s not too late to save Oxford Street
Oxford Street – the busiest shopping street in Europe, in a nation once known as an island of shopkeepers –…
Why the establishment is targeting Elon Musk
If there’s one idea that the rise of social media has proven it’s that a large proportion of the population…
Stuart Bonds: the demise of Australian coal is a terrible experiment
Anthony Albanese’s bizarre verbal fumble about whales getting tangled in offshore wind farms was discussed on Sky News Australia’s Outsiders…
The trans-rights movement’s howl of male rage
They defaced the statue of Millicent Fawcett. That’s all you need to know about yesterday’s march for ‘trans rights’. Someone…
Labor and the Greens: thick as thieves
Labor and the Greens are thick as thieves – and thieving is exactly what they intend to do with the…
Labour MPs rage against trans ruling fall-out
Happy Easter Sunday to LGBT+ Labour. Today’s Mail on Sunday splashes on leaked messages from a WhatsApp chat of MPs…
Ed Miliband is talking nonsense about energy prices – again
I guess I must be one of Ed Miliband’s ‘siren voices’. Writing in the Observer today, the Energy and Climate…
Douglas Murray has been blacklisted in Berlin
As a British writer living in Berlin, I recently attempted something that now passes for quietly provocative: I tried to…
The IMF is right: we should be retiring at 70
The IMF is onto something – a sentence I’ve never uttered before. But that august institution says today’s 70-year-olds not…
Bracket creep and soft economists
The Albanese government reduced the Stage 3 tax cuts that were designed to address some the burden of bracket creep.…
The US-Iran nuclear talks are doomed to fail
US and Iranian diplomats are meeting in Rome this weekend for further talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, in what looks…
Reason v magical climate thinking – voters have no choice
As Australians prepare to vote for the nature of their future on May 3, I can report that back in…
