Don’t remove Andrew from the line of succession
The Sun, as ever, put it pithily: ‘Andrew’s Out of Line’, its front page says today. ‘Shamed Royal to be…
How the monarchy survives the scandal of Andrew
No balloons, no cake, no well-wishes from the palace – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s 66th birthday was instead marked by something Britain has long…
The hell of being a jobseeker in 2026
As I tell my more consistently employed friends: many of you simply aren’t man enough for a real stint of…
The joy of the British euphemism
In the midst of a quiet afternoon tidying my home library – that noble pursuit which always begins with ambition…
Why a set of gold coins have divided British archaeologists
In 2024 a detectorist found some gold coins in Suffolk. The discovery was declared legally treasure. If a museum wanted…
Congratulations, Mr Taylor
Unlike most of the mainstream media, and especially the ABC, the Guardian, Fairfax and the other motley groupings of left-wing…
J’accuse Labor for Bondi
Did the government’s failure to counter the overt antisemitism of the pro-Palestinian crowd lead to the massacre?
Strange and familiar
One of the excitements of seeing Ngaire Dawn Fair in the full trilogy of The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll…
Aussie life
In an exciting breakthrough in academic hygiene, the University of Adelaide is to install ‘squat toilets’ in new buildings. This…
Language
I have finally snapped! I have become so annoyed by lying halfwits misusing the word ‘genocide’ that I am going…
There’s no beating the comfort of cabinet pudding
The British hold a steamed pudding close to their hearts. Like a culinary hot-water bottle, it may not be terribly…
The real problem with Welsh rugby
Wales rugby coach Steve Tandy must have the most difficult job in sport, apart maybe from Jim Ratcliffe’s public–relations whizz.…
The future of racing is in the Middle East
You can always judge a country by the reception you get at passport control. America is aggressive. Don’t even think…
My Epstein confession
Is this Britain, 2026, or Spain, 1478? Our era begins to feel horribly like the latter. So, as the flames…
The real reason VAR has ruined football
The two main harms of government regulation, to be balanced against any benefits, are cost and delay. But there is…
