Bleeding Australia dry
Nations achieve high standards of living by having a productive workforce and high levels of investment. Either they produce the…
The risk of ‘loaning’ the Elgin Marbles to Greece
Sir Keir Starmer’s government looks ready to smile upon the British Museum’s apparent desire to by-pass the legal prohibition of…
Japan is running out of rice
Japan is running out of rice. Stocks have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, prompting fears that emergency reserves…
Anjem Choudary is in jail for life – but is that enough?
Radical preacher Anjem Choudary – the Bexley-born godfather of homegrown Islamist terrorism in modern Britain – has finally been imprisoned for life.…
The Army is obsessed with safety
Last week, the new head of the Army, General Sir Roly Walker, warned that war may be much closer than…
Remembering the Roma Holocaust, 80 years later
On 16 May, 1944, as the first full trainloads of Hungarian Jews trundled towards Auschwitz, the SS decided to clear…
How Islamic State makes money
As if the French hadn’t enough on their plates, with turbulent elections and an underwhelming Euros performance, they’ve now had…
Police clashes and violence spread across Britain
It has been a weekend of riots. They began on Friday night in Sunderland, and were repeated in Bristol, Stoke,…
What will Iran do next?
Following the killings of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Israel and the Middle East are poised and waiting…
Keir Starmer’s riot crisis
Just a month into the Labour ascendancy and its first major political crisis has already taken shape. It is not…
The ‘community cohesion’ concept explains confusing police tactics
Merseyside police were very keen to rule out the Southport attack as ‘terrorism-related’. This was despite subsequent remarks from the…
Unlike 1997, Labour has failed to finish off the Tories
Although Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been in office less than a month, similarities between this year’s election and…
Kemi Badenoch’s time has come
The Tories are about to choose a leader once more, and this time cannot allow themselves any self-indulgence. In 2022,…
Anjem Choudary’s attention-seeking became his downfall
Anjem Choudary thrived on the oxygen of publicity and in the end could not stand being starved of it. He could…
Livin’ on a prayer, Victoria!
The 10,912 Victorians who signed a petition to retain the recital of the Lord’s Prayer in our state Parliament each…
Much ado about nothing: UK Labour’s policy wasteland
Most astute commentators on the ‘zeitgeist’ of the times; in the realms of geopolitics, economics, resource scarcity etc – whether…
The Last Reshuffle
A common element in democratic government cabinet reshuffles is the idea that the dead wood is chopped out allowing new…
