The ever-Continuing Resolution
In the 1870s, Gustave Flaubert assembled Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues, a humorous collection of “received ideas” and clichés then current…
Starmer backs Labour minister named in corruption probe
The Labour drama just never seems to stop. All eyes are now on Tulip Siddiq after the Daily Mail revealed…
It’s not surprising the Bank of England didn’t cut interest rates
Interest rates have been held at 4.75 per cent. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted 6-3 to maintain…
Salmond aided police in SNP finance probe
To Scotland, where the focus is back on Operation Branchform. It now transpires that the late former first minister Alex…
The remarkable courage of Gisèle Pelicot
Justice was served on Dominique Pelicot today when an Avignon court found him guilty of raping his ex-wife, Gisèle, over a…
Fixing Britain’s sewers will be fantastically expensive
It isn’t going to help with the cost of living, but Ofwat’s decision to allow water companies to raise bills…
Women would be wise to avoid the streets of Lambeth at night
Being a woman walking on the street at night, especially on your own, is still scary. No matter that we…
How front-line police were failed in the summer riots
The police establishment has delivered its initial verdict on this summer’s rioting, following the massacre of children at Southport. Andy…
Biden’s Cuba policy has been a disaster for the Democrats
Ten years ago this week, Barack Obama announced the historic US rapprochement with Cuba. Alongside Obama during years of secret…
Broke and broken: Victoria’s dire outlook set to get worse
Victoria finishes the year much as it started it. Badly. Very badly. With the state election still two years away…
Home schooling is a lifeline for desperate parents
Hard cases make bad laws. There can be no harder case than that of Sara Sharif, whose torture and eventual…
The free world has abandoned Hong Kong
Forty years ago today, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and China’s Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, an…
A very Arabian Christmas: stolen cars, flying princesses, and the Russian Mafia
Part 2 of A very Arabian Christmas continues to do for Speccie Christmas articles what Die Hard did for Christmas…
Is Kemi Badenoch too nice to be Tory leader?
Kemi Badenoch got tough with Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs. Not tough enough, but at least she led on a…
A reckoning with DEI pedagogy
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucracies and programs have become ubiquitous in the corporate and educational sectors. More than half of…
The real reason people don’t like Elon Musk funding Reform
The meeting between Nigel Farage, the property developer Nick Candy and Elon Musk has prompted an all-too-predictable fit among media…
Labour splits over WASPI compensation
Christmas may be just around the corner, but not everyone is in festive spirits quite yet. The mood has certainly…
Young people are ruining Guinness
James Joyce called Guinness “the wine of the country.” Now it feels a bit more like the Coca-Cola of alcohol…
Kemi Badenoch failed to pin down Starmer at PMQs – again
Kemi Badenoch has become fixated on accusing Keir Starmer of not telling the truth at Prime Minister’s Questions, to the…
Starmer makes the most of No. 10’s gift shop
Jetting off on one of his (many) trips abroad last month, Keir Starmer was snapped on his plane sipping from…
Top Tory tries to woo Elon Musk
The talk in Westminster is how much Elon Musk is going to give to Reform. But might the Tories might…
Reform sack Scots organiser over terror links
Nigel Farage’s party has been having a rather good time of it lately, after winning its first five seats in…
Tim Pallas leaves a state-crushing debt behind him
When Victorians remember Tim Pallas, they will recall the extraordinary mismanagement of the Treasury under Labor Party rule and the…
Why hasn’t Justin Trudeau resigned yet?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been walking on a political tightrope for years. His balance is unsteady. The threads…
