John Healey hails Rolls-Royce’s £9bn nuclear submarine deal
A £9 billion deal for nuclear submarine reactors was announced this morning between the Ministry of Defence and Rolls-Royce, the…
How will Trump take on the administrative state?
By the time you read this, the first raft or two of Donald Trump’s executive orders will have been promulgated.…
The real housewives of the anti-Trump resistance
It wasn’t easy being a Trump administration staffer in January 2021 as the flock of political appointees were left with…
Panama celebrates a quarter-century’s ownership of its greatest asset
New Year’s marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collective freakout known as Y2K, when overwrought tech aficionados joined forces with…
Trump gives the establishment some respite at Davos
We’ve heard more from the 47th President of the United States this week than we heard from his predecessor over…
How game developers could kill the industry
In the golden age of video games, developers and players built relationships through a shared celebration of creativity. Many developers…
What’s the real reason Trump pardoned Ross Ulbrich?
US president Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the cybercriminal mastermind who founded Silk Road and pioneered the drug trade’s…
Did Axel Rudakubana deserve a harsher sentence?
The murder of three young girls in Southport last July by Axel Rudakubana was an act of extreme savagery and…
Two big problems with the Sainsbury’s job cuts
You won’t be able to get a cup of coffee. Nor will you be able to pick up something from…
Are we still doing phrasing?
Grandma McMorris seldom curses, so when she said, “never let a son of a bitch know he’s a son of…
A tale of two parties
This is a tale of two London parties. They say something about London society, status, power, fame and fun —…
With reference to
“You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come,” sang Bruce Springsteen many moments ago. But sometimes…
A symbol of hope for Europe
Considering the way history has been going for the past quarter of a century, it seems not merely Panglossian but…
Pure shores: a Scottish sea safari
In the narrow strait between Jura and Scarba, the sea does strange things. Standing waves barrel over phantom surf breaks.…
In a balloon over Burgundy
I said I’d never go up in a hot air balloon again. But that was a terrified me forty-five years…
On the front line of the tennis magazine wars
The issue appeared without fanfare at the 2017 US Open giftshop: a bright-red background offset an Impressionist yet unmistakable painting…
Ship shape: Normandie, the biggest French restaurant of all
These pages recently carried a lament for the little French restaurant, and the loss from the cities they once graced…
How beer cracked France
Only a fool tries to guess exactly what awaits at a French karaoke bar. But on a Saturday night in…
The Bloody Mary deserves more than brunch
Regular readers of my cocktail column probably get the formula by now: I give a short history of the drink…
Dedicated to revenge: anti-Australian activism must end
It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut…
The best winter wines
Winter is a natural moment for a little recherche du temps perdu. For my band of serious thinkers, the usual…
Hold the line for Australia Day
As with so much of the rest of the Western world, Australians are demanded to ‘reflect, respect, and celebrate’ on…
A ferry tale
Attempting to sell one of my ‘world’s best ferry designs’ in the 1990s to a local but prominent ferry company,…
Rescuing manners from the Woke swamp
I’m walking down the street on a weekday morning, heading for the shops to do some banking and check the…
There’s only one way to end the war in Ukraine
Donald Trump has told Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. ‘Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous war!’ he…
