The Cass report and the unforgivable puberty blockers scandal
Children who identify as transgender have been let down badly by an NHS that succumbed to an activist lobby. That…
Can conscription save Germany’s armed forces?
Could compulsory military service soon be reintroduced in Germany? Since becoming defence minister at the beginning of last year, Boris…
CEO class strikes out again by spruiking for males in women’s sport
As I woke this week to news that World Netball had become the latest global sports governing body to step…
Will Netanyahu still attack Rafah?
The decision by Israel to withdraw its forces from the devastated city of Khan Younis could portend a battle for…
Iran’s four options for revenge against Israel
I recently returned from a trip to the south east Syrian province of Deir al Zur, where I witnessed Kurdish…
Cameron prefers charm to offensive in Blinken love-in
‘I come here with no intention to lecture anybody’. David Cameron’s line mid-press conference summed up the Foreign Secretary’s approach…
The scandal unravelling Polish higher education
In February 2024, Poland’s Anti-Corruption Bureau opened an investigation into the ‘Collegium Humanum Warsaw Management University’, a ‘Private Management School’ opened…
Poland’s MBA scandal has exposed our credentialling culture
In February 2024, Poland’s Anti-Corruption Bureau opened an investigation into the ‘Collegium Humanum Warsaw Management University’, a ‘Private Management School’ opened…
What’s the truth about Sure Start?
Labour, unsurprisingly, is crowing about a paper published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies claiming that Tony Blair’s Sure Start…
Educating our educators on the Enlightenment
To be a Western man means to be part of the continuing debate between Jerusalem and Athens
The new peace that is no peace
The visit to Australia by China’s Foreign Minister, H.E Wang Yi, reminded us of how the strong exact what they…
JK Rowling stared down hate speech laws
Recently, Scotland has been met with one of the worst pieces of legislation in the nation’s history, and nobody is…
Great Colorado restaurants, now with Michelin nods
I’ll fight you to the death on this one: Colorado’s dining scene is hotter than a habanero. A land-locked state…
The Conformist – cancel culture and fascism
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece, adapted from the 1951 Alberto Moravia novel, is a case study in conformism under a fascist…
Mitch McConnell stands against TikTok
Mitch McConnel is tackling America’s biggest national security threat — TikTok. In a Senate speech Monday, McConnell implored his fellow…
The lazy corpspeak of the Foreign Office establishment
Mark Sedwill is a serious man. He has a master’s in economics from Oxford. He worked in Cairo, Nicosia, Baghdad…
What Strasbourg’s climate ruling means for Europe
Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on an unprecedented trio of cases which claimed that European states have…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E10: Killing cash to murder freedom – Monica Smit, Pete Shmigel and Terry Barnes
The government’s mission to destroy cash is being done by proxy. Knowing that legislation to outright ban it proved unpopular…
Can David Cameron charm the Americans?
David Cameron is stateside today as the Foreign Secretary tries to muster up support for the US to send aid…
Who are the Westminster honeytrap targets?
The honeytrap scandal is the talk of the town as politicians, staffers, advisers and even journalists working in Westminster have…
The problem with Rachel Reeves’ non-dom tax plan
By abolishing non-dom status, Jeremy Hunt was supposed to have clipped the wings of the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Given…
Is climate change really a human rights matter?
The media and the middle class may love net zero. Unfortunately, it is increasingly clear that voters are less keen.…
Why the public doesn’t support decriminalising abortion
Curious, isn’t it, how sentiment changes on a critical issue all of a sudden? Not so long ago, the prospect…
The plot to bring down Emmanuel Macron
Last week Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the Olympic aquatic centre that will host the swimming and diving events at this summer’s…
Amnesty laments death of Palestinian torture group leader
One might expect a global human rights organisation to wholeheartedly condemn a man involved in the brutal torture of a…
