Kamala Harris and that new car smell
If you felt the ground shaking, it was Democrats jumping for joy after dumping Joe Biden and settling on a…
Stop the War disgraces itself, again
Oh dear. It seems that the clowns at ‘Stop the War’ are it again. In the wake of Kyiv launching…
Ukraine’s Kursk attack shows no signs of slowing down
It has been seven days since Ukraine began its attack on the Russian region of Kursk – with Ukrainian soldiers launching…
In defence of Labour’s ‘communist land grab’
We will find out in Rachel Reeves’ first budget on 30 October whether Labour really does intend to wage a…
Will a social media crackdown really stop future riots?
The riots of 2024 will be remembered for many things. One of them is the way the establishment spectacularly closed…
Why aren’t the Lib Dems being taken more seriously?
In four weeks’ time, the Liberal Democrats will descend on Brighton for their annual conference. It’s likely to be the…
Elon Musk has a point about free speech in Britain
If there is one thing that can be said about Elon Musk, whether you like him or not, he is…
The good, the bad and the ugly of the Paris Olympics
After more than two weeks showcasing a series of extraordinary sporting feats, Paris brought the curtain down on the 2024…
Banksy’s art is overrated – and overpriced
Should you be woken in the middle of the night by the sound of a hydraulic lift rising from a…
Wind energy enters its mid-life crisis
When I first heard that China was installing a two-headed wind turbine, I thought the Babylon Bee was having a…
Elon Musk is right, freedom of speech in the UK is under attack
Elon Musk has captured headlines in the UK this week by taking our Prime Minister to task over his crackdown…
Elon Musk turns on Humza Yousaf
Ding, ding, ding! It’s another round in the endless online wars involving the erratic owner of Twitter/X. Fresh from his…
It’s the simple things that kill you or save you
In 2016, when my car broke down about 40kms across the southern Mali border, I asked my supply guy and…
France’s view on the British riots is stunningly hypocritical
As the Olympics draw to a close tonight, two things have delighted the French. The first is that the Games turned…
Calamity
ASIO has lifted our national terrorism threat level to ‘probable’ meaning a greater than 50 per cent chance of an…
The failure of the Islamic Human Rights Commission at a time of national division
The heinous crime extinguishing the lives of three young British girls in a dance class in Southport reverberated across the…
What should Keir Starmer do about Elon Musk?
How should the Labour government deal with Elon Musk? It’s a question that Keir Starmer has been grappling with since…
Why Britain must say no – again – to China’s ‘super embassy’ in London
The previous Tory government may not have been very successful in containing the global ambitions of China, but at least…
Is the Great Barrier Reef really dying?
The Great Barrier Reef is, of course, dying – a victim of humans’ hubris and callousness towards the natural world.…
Javier Milei wants AI to predict crime
In the sci-fi movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays a police officer investigating ‘pre-crimes’ – those which are yet to happen, but are predicted…
Thailand’s democracy is a sham
Democracy is dying in Thailand, or perhaps it’s already dead. Thailand’s constitutional court this week ordered the dissolution of the…
The enduring wisdom of Bill Brand
If Labour is taking us back to the 1970s – and the recent strike-secured pay rises and mass rage about…
Israel’s school strike has triggered an information war
An Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza in the early hours of this morning has once again triggered an…
My Guinness experience
Eat your heart out Chelsea Hotel. Some years ago, Berlusconi’s Guinness TV flew me to stay in an Italian hotel…
Starmer’s riot troubles aren’t over yet
Sir Keir Starmer is turning out to be something of a lucky general. The Prime Minister appears to have passed…
