The BBC always knew that Russell Brand was a lout
Several women who worked with Russell Brand at the BBC have revealed that they were too scared to make official…
Will Britain get dragged into Trump’s trade war?
North America is now engaged in a full-blown trade war. Markets are reacting. Japan’s Nikkei was the first to indicate…
SNP mull ban on household cats
Here’s one to make you paws for thought: SNP ministers are considering a ban on pet cats, in a bid…
Even the Green party is shunning Stonewall
Not one major UK government department is still signed up to Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Programme. At long last, Stonewall’s toxic influence…
Trump is not a slaver
Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s accusation that Donald Trump is a ‘white slaver’ might be one of the most idiotic things…
Europe can’t win a trade war against the US
It will hit back immediately. It will target the industries that will hurt the most. And it won’t be bullied…
The AI industry has been given a taste of its own medicine
Life comes at you fast, eh? Only a few weeks ago I was grumbling in this very slot about the way in…
Starmer is falling into the EU’s trap
No doubt Keir Starmer wants us to think he is being ‘grown up’ in accepting an invitation to dinner at…
Starmer’s Brussels charm offensive is a risky business
How far will the Labour government’s European reset go? This is the question being asked in Westminster as Keir Starmer…
Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right
The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. It is clear the…
Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration
Britain can’t cope, that was the response of Nigel Farage to last week’s disclosure by the Office for National Statistics that…
Did Keir Starmer’s voice coach really count as a Covid ‘key worker’?
Who knew that being a voice coach qualified for ‘key worker’ status during the pandemic lockdowns? It has been revealed…
Australia: a land divided into tribes
One knows that an election is looming when the Prime Minister criss-crosses the country and promises to dole out money…
Why Donald Trump should care about Georgia
President Trump hasn’t just inherited the problem of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Somewhere in the handover is a memo on…
Living in an age of digital sedation
Indoctrination is simply hypnosis stripped of its mystique. In our society, we experience a form of ‘mass hypnosis’ that does…
Ten ‘wins’ in ten days since Trump took office
Even before the inauguration of Donald Trump occurred, it was evident that the zeitgeist of the Western world had shifted.…
Why are we obsessed with Japanese fiction?
Imagine you come across a small café in a back alley of Tokyo where you can travel back in time…
Yvette Cooper: ‘We’re not returning to the EU. We need to move on’
Ahead of Keir Starmer’s meeting with European leaders tomorrow, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper joined Sky News and reiterated Labour’s ‘red…
Should the West be worried about DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’?
My late mother proudly possessed a curious object: a tea cosy decorated with the image of a Sputnik. In 1957,…
The WHO is finished: step away, Mr Dutton!
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a horse that’s been flogged to death. Then it’s been turned over and flogged…
Donald Trump kicks off the tariff wars
He did it, Joe! Following on from the $79 billion worth of tariffs he implemented in his first term –…
Kim Jong Un’s North Korean culture war
If there’s one thing that a despot wants, it is to stay in power. North Korea’s totalitarian Supreme Leader, Kim…
Why can’t Germany kick its addiction to Russian energy?
Despite imposing economic sanctions on Russia, the European Union has been importing record amounts of liquefied natural gas (LNG), a…
What Luis Rubiales’s trial will reveal
The trial of Luis Rubiales, former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, starts in Madrid on Monday. After Spain…
Immigrants won’t fix Britain’s baby crisis
The fertility rate of foreign-born women is almost a third higher than that of UK-born women, according to new analysis. And yet, even the foreign-born…
