The underrated charm of minor-league hockey
I live outside Pittsburgh, home to fans who bleed the black and gold of the Steelers, Penguins and Pirates (OK,…
USC’s suppression of the anti-Israel valedictorian is unacceptable
University of Southern California’s 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, will not be allowed to deliver a speech at the university’s commencement…
Broken promises, broken budgets
In December 2021, Anthony Albanese announced his ‘plan’ to reduce electricity prices by $275 per household by 2025. He said…
JK Rowling puts Wikipedia’s neutrality to the test
Blurring the lines between up-to-date encyclopedic information and sensationalism
Donald Trump’s U-turn could vindicate his Tory enthusiasts
Better late than never. In Washington, the House of Representatives last night voted to approve £49 billion funding in aid…
Alexandra Marshall Live S2E9 with Pete Shmigel
Propaganda, censorship, and the nations spending a fortune to undermine the West… Citizens are under attack domestically and from abroad.…
The Met doesn’t care about anti-Semitism
We’re familiar by now with the peculiar paradox of left-wingers and feminists, those weird well-born women who would scream blue…
Women’s liberation stumbles backwards
I must start this off with an admission, I am a bloke – worse – an old bloke – even…
Richard Dawkins: in defence of scientific truth
When we meet in the House of Lords, Professor Richard Dawkins has just addressed a cross-party parliamentary gathering of politicians and…
The US war aid might be too little, too late for Ukraine
At the last possible moment, after months of prevarication and with Russian troops on the brink of a major breakthrough…
Are smartphones really destroying the mental health of a generation?
If you want to make your name in psychiatry, find a problem, identify a plausible one-factor solution, and then offer…
Why a Labour super-majority is unlikely
In economic, there is a phenomenon known as ‘automatic stabilisers’, which kick in at the onset of a recession. Without…
Wartime Budapest was a haven, then a hell, for Europe’s Jews
One day in May 1944, in the Nagyvárad ghetto, Sándor Leitner saw an elderly man struggling to walk towards him.…
Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart
In her new book, Liz Truss says she likes Australia and Australians. The country is, she says, ‘like Britain without…
Mental health and restraint: the unsolved conundrum
When is it appropriate to schedule someone into compulsory care when he or she is out of touch with reality?…
At Columbia… that’s all, folx!
Undoubtedly the best moment in the testimony of Minouche Shafik, the President Columbia University, before the House Committee on Education…
What Kemi Badenoch gets right about colonialism
Kemi Badenoch has developed a habit of truth telling. This is risky in our climate of rigid cultural orthodoxy, for…
Scotland’s surprising new free speech champion
Has Nicola Sturgeon discovered a sudden enthusiasm for free speech? The former SNP leader has today reviewed Salman Rushdie’s latest…
Could this be the Scottish Greens’ tuition fees moment?
Questions of power bedevil radical politics. Is entry into government the only way to force change? Do the opportunities of…
Outsourcing politics, killing democracy, fomenting revolution
Robert Jenrick, in the London Daily Telegraph, fears that the inevitable Starmer government in the United Kingdom will enact a ‘second…
Welsh Labour’s speeding U-turn shows devolution is beginning to grate
The tragedy of Wales’ 20 mph speed limit, which is now to be relaxed, was that it took a good…
Britain doesn’t need an Iron Dome
Air defence was in the news this week, after Israel, with the help of allies including the UK, shot down…
What happened to the Glasgow I love?
The perception of Glasgow still held by outsiders – that it’s all tenement blocks and stabbings, that the only food…
Scrapping replays could be the beginning of the end for the FA Cup
Is time running out for the oldest knock-out tournament of them all? The FA cup‘s obituary has been written a…
