Does Australia know what a woman is?
When Australian businesswoman Sall Grover set up Giggle – an app exclusively for women – in 2020, it never occurred…
How much trouble is Angela Rayner in?
Another week, another development in the row over Angela Rayner’s tax affairs. The deputy Labour leader is facing questions over…
Will the Seine be safe for the summer Olympics?
Emmanuel Macron’s promise to strip off to his Speedos and swim in the Seine to prove it is safe for…
David Cameron meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago
As the US elections draw ever closer, Donald Trump is back in the spotlight. Last night, David Cameron met with…
We’re all paying the price for our rotten prisons
What happens when government policy meets an entirely unfit system? Today’s report on HMP Peterborough by HM Inspector of Prisons…
The Tories deserve our contempt
The Telegraph reported at the weekend that the Conservative party appears to be attempting, in its selection process for parliamentary…
Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident)
Since being offered a largely pointless and doomed-to-fail role as UN special envoy to Myanmar, the former Liberal Foreign Minister,…
Trump’s abortion mistake
Donald Trump’s decision to weigh in on the abortion issue again at this juncture, with his most definitive statement yet…
Where will the Westminster honeytrap scandal go next?
The circle of those caught up in the Westminster honeytrap scandal continues to expand, with at least 15 figures now…
Watch: Pro-Palestine protestors vandalise Labour HQ
Uh oh. Labour is once again facing dissent from its own supporters over the Israel-Gaza conflict. Things came to a…
It can be so hard to find an honest cheater these days!
Student cheating in Australia’s universities is back in the headlines – again. The national tertiary education regulator, the Tertiary Education Quality…
The gathering storm against religious freedom
There is a gathering storm against religious freedom in this country, and it’s about to break upon not only Christian…
Thank the Greens for a national crime surge
‘You must realise,’ my mother said sternly, so close to my face that I thought she was examining my teeth,…
Bowen’s strategy to reduce bills hides $360 billion in costs by 2050
Consumers to pay $129 billion in rooftop solar and around $229 billion in home batteries
Reform: scrap net zero to fund the NHS
Richard Tice spent this morning fulfilling a role well-known to leaders of smaller parties: defending their vetting procedures amid criticism…
Why are Foreign Office mandarins so ashamed of their own country?
The Foreign Office has been criticised as ‘elitist and rooted in the past’ in a scathing report by some of…
Did David Lammy break broadcasting rules?
Uh oh. David Lammy is back in the spotlight again after Ofcom’s announcement today that it is investigating the shadow…
Honeytrap scandal: Jenkyns says Wragg must face disciplinary action
Back to the Westminster honeytrap, and now Dame Andrea Jenkyns has revealed that she was also targeted by the parliamentary…
Why Justin Trudeau is turning against immigration
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a state of desperation. His minority Liberal government has been polling behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives…
Ian Hislop’s elite blindspot
A common attack line against populist politicians such as Nigel Farage or Donald Trump is that their attacks on contemporary…
Is Whitehall ready for war?
James Heappey, who will soon step down as Conservative MP for Wells after nearly a decade, may have won more…
There’s no Roald Dahl without his cruelty
Roald Dahl Goes Woke: Part Two in what promises to be a very long and funny and ignominious series. Not…
Dowden: UK position on arms sales to Israel ‘has not changed’
Dowden: UK position on arms sales to Israel ‘has not changed’ Israel and Hamas are expected to hold a new…
Inflation accountability? Not likely!
We are at a point in history where once again the plebs have woken up to the fact that inflation…
When Medicare refunds end up ‘somewhere’
I wonder how many Australians, like me, have found communicating with our national health care bureaucracy, Medicare, about as easy…
