Who is Katherine Long?
Marko Elez. If that name means anything, you might spend a little too much time on the internet. Elez is…
Hate crimes: a new woke attack against free speech
A new and unprecedented law has passed the chamber, marking an incredibly frustrating time for those conservatives who are paying…
Ukraine’s security depends on Europe’s courage
If anything was going to make Donald Trump come around to supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, ‘rare earth…
Let the leftists have their own way!
Lefties say and do the dumbest things! When it comes to leftism, most of us have learned long ago that…
Trump’s ICC sanctions will test an outdated institution
Once you get beyond trade and maritime borders, you will find that much of international law is, pace Clausewitz, the continuation of…
Will Trump inspire Dutton to undo the Uniparty?
There is so much hot air blowing around at the moment. Almost every leftie on social media is having a…
Keir Starmer is caught in a Trump trap
The mood of Keir Starmer’s foreign policy advisers was funereal as they contemplated the return of Donald Trump. The weeks…
Kemi Badenoch has a secret weapon in the fight against Nigel Farage
Things are currently looking choppy for Kemi Badenoch. Polls last weekend were bad enough, seven of them showing Reform leading…
Labour dodges scrutiny on efficiency savings
Well, well, well. Rachel Reeves has spent much of her seven months in power banging on about budget blackholes and…
Russia’s quest to woo Africa is paying off
The West may like to convince itself that it is, in the words of one American diplomat, ‘strangling the Russian…
Why Beckham’s wait for a knighthood goes on
The newspapers’ front page photograph of David and Victoria Beckham entering Buckingham Palace’s State Dining Room was a publicity triumph…
Starmer will need a miracle to boost his ‘AI growth zones’
The government has unveiled its new ‘AI Opportunities Action Plan’ – a ten-syllable, fifty-point proposal to grow the UK’s AI…
Bowen exposed
At the Grammy Awards last week, the celebrity rapper Kanye West paraded his Australian wife Bianca Censori along the red…
Brown study
My loyal readers have told me I should end my uncharacteristic silence on the war in Gaza. They are right.…
Trump redefines the ‘special relationship’
White House plays good cop/bad cop games with far-left Britain
Sweeping exit
It will be fascinating to see what Jamie Martín, the head of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, makes of Mahler’s Second…
Aussie life
Harpy. Shrew. Harridan. Virago. Vixen. Hellcat. Scold. Fishwife. Fury. The English language has no shortage of words for belligerent and…
Language
We are still at the beginning of 2025, but Brendan O’Neill has already named his ‘most irritating phrase of the…
