Theresa May’s Brexit negotiator handed top Foreign Office job
A number of new Whitehall appointments have been made since the election, but there have been a couple of returning…
The issue of rape gangs will not go away
Finally, we heard it. At PMQs today, the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, dropped the euphemism ‘grooming’ and said ‘rape gangs’…
The ‘shocking tactics’ of Kemi Badenoch
Whitehall is being swept by moral outrage. Ministers, in full This Is Spinal Tap mode, have turned their pious horror up…
Tory attack ad gives Labour taste of its own medicine
What goes around, comes around. In producing their latest attack ad, it seems Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative crowd has taken inspiration…
Smoking bans: the fallback legacy for failed leaders
What is a legacy? Is it the sum of our actions? Is it the family and friends we leave behind?…
Happy Epiphany! Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity
Each year I try and put the season into a Christian perspective because, as plenty of scholars, from Tom Holland…
It’s no surprise so many British Jews are leaving for Israel
Some things may come as no surprise in theory but cause the heart to sink when they emerge as reality.…
An open letter for Peter Dutton from an old ‘No’ voter
Dear Mr Dutton, I hope Rowan Dean’s prediction on Sky News Australia’s ‘The Outsiders’ that you will win the upcoming…
Kemi Badenoch must ask better questions
Keir Starmer has not seemed in control of the grooming gangs story since it broke, but at Prime Minister’s Questions,…
The demise of the Royal Society of Literature
The tenth anniversary of the slaughter of Charlie Hebdo journalists reminds us that the literary establishment has long been equivocal…
Mandelson won’t represent UK at Trump inauguration
It’s the big question all Westminster is asking right now. Who has got a golden ticket to Donald Trump’s inauguration?…
Musk attacks Keir ‘Starmtrooper’ again over grooming inquiry stance
There’s no rest for the wicked. Twitter chief Elon Musk has barely come up for air over the last week…
Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal: 100 per cent there for the taking
Over a decade ago, a mock ad campaign fantasied about invading New Zealand on the off chance Australia would acquire…
Does Britain want to join Trump’s new world order?
Goodbye EU, hello AU? It’s been evident for a few months now that Donald Trump’s second administration will be more…
Kim Jong Un isn’t going away
It was only a matter of time before North Korea lit things up again. As US Secretary of State Antony…
Facebook is no place for politics
There was much jubilation yesterday among advocates of free speech following the news that Mark Zuckerberg is to relax restrictions on free…
Why do the left mock the dead?
It was party time in Paris and elsewhere in France on Tuesday evening as hundreds of people celebrated the death…
Is this the end of the Big Tech industrial censorship complex?
The vibe shift is real. Yes, all the chatter about the re-election of Donald Trump causing a cultural sea change…
Donald Trump’s plans sound… interesting
No one can accuse President-elect Donald Trump of failing to be transparent about his intentions and plans. Speaking at a…
Trump praises Musk as ‘smart guy’ when quizzed on Labour attacks
It’s been an eventful week for UK-US relations. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has spent much of it berating the Labour…
Their god is not willing, Penny
How many Palestinians does it take to change a light bulb? None! They sit in the dark forever and blame…
Why did Meta just hire Dana White?
It’s all change at Meta HQ. As Cockburn reported last week, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg — who has served…
Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?
The 19th Century Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they…
Royal Society of Literature in meltdown over diversity drive
All is not well in the Royal Society of Literature. It now transpires that the bosses of the prestigious 200-year-old…
