Leaked immigration policy debacle a boon for Angus Taylor
Every now and then, a complete balls-up can work in one’s favour. Yesterday’s leaked Shadow Cabinet document marked ‘Shadow Cabinet-In-Confidence’…
The British Museum is right to change ‘Palestine’ to ‘Canaan’
What’s in a name? Quite a bit if you’re the British Museum and the P-word is involved: ‘Palestine’. Pro-Palestinian activists are outraged…
Starmer’s local election rebuff benefits Reform
The parliamentary recess ought to buy Keir Starmer a bit of much-needed breathing space. But the Prime Minister has suffered…
I burnt a Quran. Now I may have to flee Britain
My name is Hamit Coskun and last year I was convicted in a British court of religiously aggravated public order…
Don’t let Australia become the Argentina of the Pacific
Follow Menzies and use your first preference votes to discipline Liberal drifters
Is it time to scrub Andrew from the line of succession?
The sheer weight of allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – all tawdry, all sordid – runs the risk of creating not so much…
Rejoining the EU single market won’t boost Britain’s growth
In his speech in Munich on Saturday, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, made it very clear that he was…
Don’t blame AI for this jobs bloodbath
No wonder government ministers in recent weeks have started nodding along with fears that AI will take our jobs, with…
Hamas is inching towards another war
Perhaps the biggest talent of humanity is our gift to adapt to challenging circumstances with creativity and ingenuity. It may…
How can measles have broken out in London?
Last month the World Health Organisation removed Britain from its list of countries where measles had been effectively eliminated. The…
Ireland had no right to name agent Stakeknife
Micheál Martin, now in his second stint as Ireland’s Taoiseach, is by our standards a political veteran, having led Fianna…
Rupert Lowe launches his own party
You wait years for a right-wing party – and then a veritable fleet comes along at once. After Advance UK,…
Labour Together, Apco and the hell of consultancy firms
I’ve long had a theory – despite knowing many clever and nice people who work in the sector – that consultancy…
Labour Together in turmoil over smear campaign
It was the think tank which made Keir Starmer leader – but now Labour Together is struggling. The Sunday Times…
Why Russia used poison to kill Navalny
When leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny died two years ago, the only real question was not whodunnit, but howdunnit? His widow,…
Why every child should stand and sing the national anthem – weekly
There are few rituals more powerful in the life of a nation than the singing of its national anthem. In…
Yvette Cooper: ‘Only the Russian regime had the motive, the means and the opportunity’
Two years on from the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the UK has released a joint statement with…
Digital tyranny or ‘child safety’? 😵 & the bitcoin revolution | Efrat Fenigson S3 Ep 16
When Australia’s Under 16 social media ban started locking adult political writers out of #Substack – it was just the…
The exorcism of Malcolm Turnbull
It’s been almost a decade since Malcolm Turnbull held power over the nation, yet his presence managed to haunt the…
Jeff Kennett suggests preference deal with One Nation
Unite the right and defeat the Labor government?
The dangers of UpScrolled
I have spent nearly a decade working in the field of online anti-Semitism and extremism. This, I thought, was long…
A man’s gotta know his limitations
In Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood delivers one of greatest lines in cinema history: A man’s gotta know his limitations. It…
Why doesn’t the Church want us to get married?
I got married last year and was shocked to find that it would be more than three times as expensive…
