The sacking of Frank Skinner is a loss to British comedy
The recent news that comedian Frank Skinner had been sacked from his job at Absolute Radio after fifteen years as…
The real reason Ireland is going to recognise Palestine
When the Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin recently stood up and announced to the Dail that Ireland would officially recognise…
The West must stand behind Israel after Iran’s attack
Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel is an escalation from the fiery but ultimately empty rhetoric we are used…
How will Israel respond to Iran’s attack?
Iran’s retaliatory attack, which Israel has been expecting since it killed Iranian commanders in Damascus on 1st April, has started…
Iran has struck back – but is it war?
When Israel assassinated a top commander in Iran’s Quds Force in Damascus a fortnight ago, it knew that Tehran would…
The Camille Paglia cult
There’s a specter floating inside the head of a certain type of young woman. It’s the fast-talking, sex-realist American academic…
Henry Ford and the genius of bitcoin
In 1729, the French philosopher Voltaire wrote: ‘All paper money returns to its intrinsic value: zero.’ Since then, over 500…
Stopping the inflation contagion
CPI took a rapid jump down in March in Europe and now sits at 2.4 per cent, whilst the UK…
Watch: Pro-indy filmmaker’s bizarre currency claim
Another day, another nationalist gaffe. This time it’s pro-indy filmmaker and columnist — for that august journal the National —…
Watches & Wonders had only a few truly wonderful timepieces
Every year, the world’s greatest watch companies and their biggest watch fans head to Geneva for an orgy of horological…
Centrelink at work: making life miserable for pensioners
I went down to our local Centrelink office the other day, the second such visit in a few months. It…
The unimaginable tragedy of the Sydney stabbing attack
Bondi Junction, in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs, is well known to many British backpackers and tourists. Close to the city’s…
Diane Abbott’s private school hypocrisy
Oh dear. It seems that the sage of Hackney has blundered once more. Having lost the Labour whip last year…
Representing O.J. Simpson was a mixed blessing
When I was first asked to join the O.J. defence team, I declined, because I had appeared on television and…
Germanophobia is growing in France
There was a time earlier this century when few politicians in France would dare criticise Germany. The country was the…
Putin wants to create an unliveable no man’s land in Ukraine
The residents of Velyka Pysarivka had almost finished renovating their municipal library. They laid the floor with large white tiles,…
JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning
Boyish girls, climb the nearest tree and give a Tarzan whoop of victory – girly boys, fashion a floral crown…
Why academia failed to challenge trans ideology
Dr Hilary Cass’s long-awaited review into healthcare for transgender children and young people was released this week. Her verdict was…
The power of talking as thinking
The world’s greatest scientific building recently celebrated its 225th birthday. In 1799, a group of natural philosophers (the word ‘scientist’…
Swiss grannies upstage Greta as court rules on climate ‘rights’
There is a mountain of irony in a group of four elderly women in Switzerland being concerned about the threat…
Wong again
Warning, satire: In international news this week, the Israeli government has announced it plans to send a special envoy to…
