The crisis in the NHS’s adult gender clinics
Hilary Cass’s review of children’s gender services revealed how young people are being badly let down by the NHS. The…
Winning over young men
Message to the Libs. Don’t turn off the young men – they are your best hope of regaining power. There’s…
Sunak is right, Britain needs national service
The Tories have announced that, if re-elected, they will introduce national service. And it won’t be the miserable existence imposed…
Why Rishi Sunak wants to introduce national service
The first big new policy announcement of the election campaign is in from the Tories, and it’s likely to be…
Is Michael Gove set to become the next Strictly star?
As the exodus of Conservative MPs continues, Mr S is rather curious about what alternative careers retiring Tories have in…
How many Tory big beasts will the Lib Dems oust?
It’s four days since Rishi Sunak surprised his colleagues and announced a summer election. So far a lot of the…
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan remains unlikely
For a second day, yesterday, Chinese fighter jets and warships surrounded Taiwan for drills which the People’s Liberation Army said…
The ICJ’s Rafah ruling is unwelcome and unwise
Yesterday afternoon, in a striking move, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s top court, ordered Israel to stop military operations in Rafah…
Campus protests are a free speech test for universities
‘This is a major win.’ These were the words of a spokesperson after the University of Melbourne caved in to…
Let’s not forget why we’re here
On multiple occasions this week, I’ve found myself wondering if I was living in some dystopian alternate reality. I watched…
The smoking ban won’t go away
Has Rishi Sunak’s surprise summer election spared Britain some nanny state interventions? At first glance it seemed so, as it…
Germany was right to take the Reichsbürger threat seriously
Germany is in the grip of one of the most extensively covered courtroom dramas in recent memory. On trial is…
How Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden fell out
After the atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel on 7 October, President Biden offered his total and unflinching support…
The sad decline of Oxford
The cliché about Oxford – and as a resident of the city, I have skin in the game here –…
Acronym organisations
The so-called rules-based order that the West has prided itself on developing and operating under since the end of the…
Cancel culture is now Labor policy
The real agenda behind the eSafety Commissioner’s litigation against Musk
This distorting mirror of cruelty
Every so often a bit of streamer television comes along and makes you grateful for what the form can achieve…
