Oh no, Oprah!
Mea culpa. I used to be one of Oprah’s biggest fans – recorded and watched every single show, bought her…
A sunny Saturday in Lviv
The quickest way to get to Lviv is to fly to Warsaw and then pick up a car and driver…
Watch: Reeves’s hypocrisy over freebie row
Back to Labour’s freebie row, which has spilled over into conference week. Sir Keir Starmer’s top team is desperate to…
The plight of Hatun Tash shames Britain
There is a Christian preacher, a woman, who has suffered the most heinous persecutions. She has been chased by mobs,…
Fines, crimes, and a big white kangaroo
With a Queensland state election looming and a federal poll in the wind, I’ve already made my mind up –…
Has Labour got anything new to say at its party conference?
Have you learned anything about this Labour government from the conference speeches so far? Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ address to the…
Can Israelis stomach another war?
It was late in 1997 when I got to a small military base on the border between Israel and Lebanon.…
We don’t need Rachel Reeves’ ‘industrial strategy’
It is not hard to imagine what will be in Rachel Reeves’ ‘industrial strategy’. There will be lots of ‘green…
It’s no surprise nurses want a bigger pay rise
Just as the Chancellor Rachel Reeves was talking in her conference speech about the importance of resolving public sector strikes,…
Wes Streeting’s surprising praise for Reform
After the general election this year, Nigel Farage argued that he was now the leader of the opposition, after his…
The tragic cost of Japan’s floods
Yet another natural disaster has struck in Japan as floods and landslides in the Noto peninsula, precipitated by ‘unprecedented’ rainfall,…
Who was the real audience for Rachel Reeves’s speech?
Rachel Reeves had to deal with unexpected turbulence in her party conference speech, after anti-Israel protesters interrupted her. But that…
Starmer’s biographer slams ‘office politics’ of freebie fiasco
It’s day two of Labour conference and Sir Keir Starmer’s freebie fiasco still hasn’t gone away. Over a week since…
Watch: Reeves’ heckled by Gaza activist
It’s Rachel Reeves’ big day at conference today. After 80 days of doom and gloom, the Starmer army have concluded…
Is Michel Barnier’s cabinet really conservative?
Emmanuel Macron’s new government marks, in the words of the BBC, ‘a decisive shift to the right’. That is also…
Is there really a ‘butterfly emergency’?
Anyone else getting fed up with ‘emergencies’? There was a time when that word meant something, but not any longer…
Starmer sends Glittergate warning
To Liverpool, where Sir Keir Starmer is enjoying his first Labour conference in government, against the backdrop of rather stormy…
Why has Rachel Reeves suddenly become cheery?
Can Rachel Reeves inject some optimism into the debate around Britain’s economy? That seems to be her ambition today, as…
Will AfD voters ever return to the mainstream?
For the second time in three weeks, the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has received a significant percentage of the…
Buyer beware as Bowen ‘models’ energy bills again
Anyone following Energy Minister Chris Bowen on X would know that Peter Dutton is living rent-free in the minister’s head.…
Olaf Scholz has won a hollow victory in Brandenburg’s state elections
In what will surely come as a relief to the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, his SPD party has won this…
Why are you proud to be British?
Introducing a tub-thumping op-ed in the Mail yesterday, Robert Jenrick quoted Orwell: ‘England is perhaps the only great country whose…
Naivety won’t solve Britain’s migrant crisis
Events of the last week have demonstrated the fierce determination of some migrants to reach their European destination of choice. Last Sunday, hundreds…
Were the wild Sixties really wild?
I grew up in the America of the 1960s, an era renowned for its kaftan-wearing hippies, its ethos of free…
Welcome to Country
A ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremony, done in the correct manner, may well be a welcome addition to our culture, (Chris…
