Who are Labour’s new working-class voters? An interview with Claire Ainsley
What is a working person? This question dominated the lead-up to Labour’s first Budget in over 14 years. After Rachel…
Is Labour really going to crack down on benefit cheats?
I can’t fault Keir Starmer for his piece in the Mail on Sunday today promising that Labour will crack down on…
Liz Kendall: those who won’t take up work may lose benefits
The number of people not in work has increased significantly since the pandemic, and the government is preparing to cut…
Swing seats back another election
For more than a decade, viral petitions demanding an immediate election were the preserve of Remainiacs and much of the…
Anti-coal protesters suffer through idyllic weather
Watching the Leader of the Greens paddle around in a synthetic raft, wearing plastic shades, complaining about the evils of…
The collapse of trans ideology
Apparently there is a debate about transgender access to women’s bathrooms on ‘The Hill’. Except, there is no ‘debate’. What…
Respect orders?
Two-Tier Keir, or as he is now known ‘Starmer the Stalinist’ following his Soviet-style attack on farmers, has proposed ‘Respect…
How debauchery turns to tragedy in places like Vang Vieng
I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese…
Starmer’s disdain for conservatives could be his undoing
Tony Blair spent much of his time as prime minister projecting a persona that most people of a conservative mindset…
How identity politics corrupted France’s elite schools
Earlier this year, Sciences Po’s feminist association, Décollectif Féministe, organised a ‘non-mixed’ meeting, which explicitly excluded men and white attendees. Intended as a…
What Germany can teach the UK about assisted dying
Critics of Labour’s Assisted Dying bill fear that its vagueness means we are heading for trouble. Germany, where assisted suicide…
The flawed genius of Rafael Nadal
When Rafael Nadal triumphed in the 2005 French Open, he was still just a teenager. The Spaniard won 21 more…
The Bureau of Guessology
On the far south coast of New South Wales, the prevailing breeze is a nor’easter. Over the past few days,…
Madrid’s bullfighting triumphs over ‘eating ze bugs’
From Madrid: Madrid is better than Paris. That’s my advertising slogan for this great city. Instead of Midnight in Paris,…
Jaguar and Volvo’s ads are both terrible
Both Jaguar and Volvo released online marketing campaigns that went extremely viral this week. One was a huge success and…
Gordon Brown’s assisted dying intervention could be decisive
Gordon Brown, who is in the news this weekend having come out against assisted dying, occasionally has a tendency to…
The Laos methanol poisonings shine a light on a deeper tragedy
The death of British lawyer Simone White, 28, and five other tourists as a result of a suspected mass poisoning…
The winds of change are blowing in Iran
The mood music from Tehran regarding Donald Trump’s election victory was a mixture of ‘don’t care,’ and ‘very much do…
The generation who want to shut you up
Last week I was invited to give a speech on the escalation of government censorship for Western Heritage Australia. We…
Labor’s 30 pieces of voting silver
The Jew with the bloodied torso was being brutalised, lashed, and abused. I was seated in row B of the…
The paper mills helping China commit scientific fraud
Few people embody the ideal of scientific excellence as much as Albert Einstein. Each year a Berlin-based foundation bearing his…
Is Big Oil back?
Cop29 has drawn to a close with arguments over a $250 billion (£200 billion) a year ‘loss and damage’ fund,…
Is there any escape from Olivia Colman?
I still remember the day when, as an adult in my twenties, I was informed by a well-wisher that Aslan…
What confronting my own mortality taught me about assisted dying
It was when my newly-implanted bone marrow failed to produce the blood cells that keep all of us alive that…
Starmer needs the royal family to help him woo Trump
Donald Trump’s historic re-election must be a particularly bitter pill for Keir Starmer to swallow. Leaders from Javier Milei to Giorgia…
