Keir Starmer’s prisons dilemma
Another month, another batch of prisoners released early. Today marks the release of the second tranch of offenders as part…
Britain cannot leave the South Pacific to Xi Jinping
Samoa is a land of sunburnt shorelines and majestic waterfalls. It is a Pacific paradise that, in a perfect world,…
Has Rachel Reeves lost control of spending?
Some thought Rachel Reeves’s experience at the Bank of England meant she ‘knew how to run the economy’. She would…
Nearly everything you assume about colonialism and slavery is wrong
Nigel Biggar’s, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The UK’s debts are horrifyingly large
There is a big danger in today’s government borrowing figures for September being a little less bad than was expected…
The cowardice of the Chris Kaba case
Since 2010, British police have shot dead 30 people. This works out at an average of around 2.1 people per…
Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?
Previous fears of overpopulation in nations with high population densities have been replaced by concerns about a declining and ageing…
The TV industry should be worried about AI
ITV are searching for an ‘AI expert’ to ‘create TV shows, films and digital content’, and to use this possibly…
That poor possum
I’m not a vegan. You won’t find me stripping naked, drenching myself in red paint, and gluing myself to the…
Labour should be wary of scrapping short prison sentences
What is the point of a short prison sentence? David Gauke will no doubt think carefully about that question now…
Badenoch beats Jenrick in Mumsnet ratings
The Tory leadership contest will wrap up in less than two weeks and members have been busy casting their votes…
Mass prisoner releases aren’t working
Today, over a thousand offenders will walk out of jail early as part of the government’s ongoing emergency scheme to…
The neo-liberal consensus is coming apart
The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and…
Newcastle, Saudi Arabia and desperate decline of English football
Is a major scandal over the sale of Newcastle United to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund…
Crisafulli: me-tooing into office?
With polling day nigh in the Queensland election campaign, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has appeared incredibly weak, vacillating, and indecisive…
Misinformation bill resurrects Mussolini’s attack on economic freedom
On September 12, 2024, Communications Minister for the incumbent Albanese government Michelle Rowland introduced the Communications Legislation Amendment Bill 2024…
Albo the Houso strikes again
With his exquisite political judgement, and with an election looming in the next six months or so, Albo intends to…
Khan takes a pop at Kuenssberg over election tweet
To City Hall, where tonight Sadiq Khan welcomed journalists from across the city to a Diageo-sponsored drinks reception. The London…
Do we really need more ‘national conversations’?
Other than being fired out of a cannon to raise funds for the NHS, what could Wes Streeting possibly learn…
The problem at the heart of the Chris Kaba case
There are few moments more serious than when the state takes the life of a citizen, when a police officer…
Kamala Harris and the coconut tree speech
On May 10, 2023, Kamala Harris, the Democrat Party Presidential candidate, delivered a speech in the White House to Hispanic…
Too many people are being recalled to prison
One of the new government’s first decisions was to announce that most prisoners would be released 40 per cent of…
Why Kamala Harris will lose
When you look back on the 2024 presidential election and try to understand why it was that Kamala Harris lost,…
The turnout election: a tale of two ground games
In the past two months, the Harris-Walz campaign has texted five times asking me to join its door-knocking efforts in…
Unpacking the race for the US Senate
In the middle of the most chaotic presidential election in the modern era, with its death race through senility, assassination…
