What the CofE needs from Justin Welby’s successor
The Church of England website features a public consultation closing on 28th March on what qualities should be looked for in the…
The fringes of Australian politics
Something’s in the water. That is the best explanation we have so far for the escalation of bizarre behaviour happening…
Don’t count on Trump defending Poland from Russia
The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has warned Russia that the alliance would defend Poland against any aggression and would…
The collapse of 23andMe spells trouble for a part-neanderthal like me
Those of us who signed up for DNA testing kits from 23andMe did so thinking we’d unlock deep ancestral secrets.…
Who doesn’t want a free Eton education? Labour, apparently
Labour’s decision to add VAT to school fees shows that the party has an irrational hatred of posh schools. Hiking…
Can Reeves avoid further tax rises?
Rachel Reeves wakes to a swathe of tricky front pages this morning after the Spring Statement in which the Office…
Should police have the power to search homes without a warrant?
It’s back. The government is once again attempting to give the police powers to search homes without a warrant. Buried…
The task ahead
In August 1914 Australia went to war. By the end of 1914, the German Schlieffen Plan had failed and for…
What J.D. Vance gets right
J.D. Vance is just about the least popular conservative in Britain right now. The US Vice President’s treatment of Volodymyr…
The Trump Liberation Day tariffs and Australia
Trump has variously made the case for support for domestic production of goods, like semiconductors, that are of military importance.…
The growing menace of trees
Australia is threatened by dangerous trees. They have infested our cities, menaced our power lines, invaded our grasslands, and fuelled…
The Alba party has a mountain to climb
Kenny MacAskill has won the leadership of Alba and just to underscore how cursed that position is, he defeated his…
Reeves had a good day, but she’s hardly in the clear
Rachel Reeves’ Treasury team and the No. 10 communications staff should enjoy a drink tonight. The Spring Statement is a…
Which member of the ‘Houthi PC small group’ chat are you?
Most people use groupchats to share memes, organize brunch or gossip. The Trump administration plans air strikes. After Atlantic editor-in-chief…
Labour isn’t building enough homes
Amid the back and forth during today’s Spring Statement over who really crashed Britain’s economy, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)…
The five bombshells in the OBR’s economic outlook
There is perhaps no document more useful for understanding the state of the nation than the Office for Budget Responsibility’s…
Reeves’s Spring Statement just doesn’t add up
Is Rachel Reeves toast? Not according to her. The Chancellor delivered an aggressively self-confident statement about Labour’s spending plans this…
Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap
Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, ‘The Trump Administration…
Darren Jones compares disability cuts to pocket money
Oh dear. It seems that some Labour ministers are in desperate need of some media training. First, there was Seema…
Of course Jasmine Crockett should run for president
The leadership of the Democratic Party is as open as it has been in generations, with Nancy Pelosi occupying emerita…
Why are there more protests against Hamas in Gaza than Britain?
You’re more likely to see a protest against Hamas in Gaza than in London. For brave, spirited agitation against this…
Rachel Reeves can’t blame anyone else for stagnant growth
It didn’t take long for the Commons to spot the glaring omission in Rachel Reeves’s boast that the Office for…
Reeves’s Spring Statement was written for the OBR
Rachel Reeves didn’t want today’s Spring Statement to be seen as a budget, but a budget it has turned out…
Scotland’s universities must scrap free tuition
Scotland’s universities are in a crisis of Holyrood’s own making. The Scottish Funding Council is currently discussing bailout terms for…
Rachel Reeves’s non-Budget is very bad news
Rachel Reeves framed her Spring Statement around the insistence that Labour’s Plan for Change was already working, which meant that…
