Keir tells Kemi that a phone ban in schools is ‘completely unnecessary’
Any session of Prime Minister’s Questions that takes place before a fiscal event is merely a warm-up act that everyone…
Can Ireland prove that it isn’t a ‘tax scam’?
Howard Lutnick, former CEO of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and now Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration, has…
WATCH: Mike Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ (kind of) for groupchat leak
It has been a furious week in Trumpland after White House officials accidentally added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a highly…
The sad demise of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity
Prince Harry has had an eventful couple of years. There was the controversy-studded publication of his memoir Spare and a…
The University of Sussex has learned nothing from the Kathleen Stock debacle
The University of Sussex, one of the leading temples of progressivism in academia, has been fined £585,000 for failing to…
Labour minister confuses interest rates with inflation
Happy spring statement day, one and all. Today’s fiscal event – which is definitely NOT an ’emergency Budget’ – looks set…
We don’t live in an age of reason
When Tucker Carlson claimed to have been “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep late last year, it was…
Ukraine is looking like the loser in Russia-US peace talks
Ukraine’s worst nightmare is coming true: Vladimir Putin has presented the bill to end his war – and Donald Trump…
Putin’s duo are spinning ceasefire talks to Russia’s advantage
The delegation Moscow sent to ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia was clearly well-chosen. Grigory Karasin, for example, the former diplomat…
Impossible business growth underpins house of cards Budget
From Parliament House, Canberra: Last year Australia experienced record numbers of business failures. While the percentage of businesses was not…
Dark humour: Labor brands itself the party of tax cuts
Can anyone think of a more efficient way to waste trees than printing copies of the Budget on the eve…
Falling inflation may have rescued Rachel Reeves
Clothing retailers have saved Rachel Reeves from having to go naked into the debating chamber. As the Chancellor rises to…
Watch: Trump aide admits group chat leak
As Denis Healey said: ‘when you’re in a hole, stop digging.’ It has been a furious day in Trumpland after…
The promise Putin made to Russia – and broke
When Vladimir Putin launched his bid to be elected as Russia’s president in 2000, he had already been in the…
Is Reeves brave enough to give the economy the medicine it needs?
Rachel Reeves has wanted to downplay the significance of the Spring Statement this afternoon. But with every leaked proposal and…
Jim Callaghan’s greatest achievement was to be himself
The government’s recent, palpable turn to the right seems to be gaining pace. In the past few weeks, Keir Starmer…
Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement looks like a missed opportunity
The Spring Statement was supposed to be a fiscal non-event, but instead, it is shaping up to be a mini-Budget.…
Budget 2025: out of ideas and full of fiscal analgesics
Keating predicted a Banana Republic and it is gradually coming true
A society suffering from ‘Labelism’
Misogynist. Patriarchy. Cis-Gendered. Woke. Labels en masse. We are a society that has succumbed to the sectionality, ostracisation, and disintegration…
Be suspicious when you hear the words ‘no evidence’
In every organisation there is usually an Achilles’ Heel, some fact which if widely known or understood, can cause damage,either…
Working class men are leaving the workforce
The Australian newspaper (March 24, 2025) has started to discuss the issue of working-age people relying on welfare rather than…
Are we due another rate cut?
With the next rate call in sight, the RBA is probably unlikely to make another cut, in spite of the…
Mike Waltz claims he has ‘never met’ Atlantic editor
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz spoke to the press this afternoon for the first time since the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey…
You can buy Melania Trump’s wedding dress on eBay for $45,000
Melania Trump’s one-of-a-kind wedding dress is on sale for an asking price of $45,000 on eBay. The ivory duchesse satin dress…
Signal and the narcissism of connectivity
Signal is the fashionable place to discuss shady business – and that is probably what tempted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, a military man…
