Why can’t Democrats speak frankly about Iran?
The manicured grounds of Harvard University are tranquil. Ditto the expensive quads of Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Stanford. All across the fruited…
Nick Timothy takes Jenrick’s job
It’s a treacherous business, politics. One day you’re the future Tory leader, the next you’re sitting on the independent benches…
Tory chairman: ‘This was treachery’
So. Farewell then Robert Jenrick. The most popular member of the shadow cabinet (according to ConservativeHome at least) was this…
Albanese’s hypocritical two-tier rush undermines our democracy
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has long positioned himself as a champion of due process, transparency, and democratic norms. Kindness is…
Hate speech is not Islamic terrorism, and where’s Pauline?
In the timeless wisdom of childhood playgrounds, we were taught that ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words…
Knowledge-rich
In July 1995, in a paper titled Liberal Education and the Purpose of Schooling, I argued instead of focusing on…
Reform risk becoming the face of Tory failure
How grim things are suddenly looking for Nigel Farage and Reform UK. It isn’t that their poll ratings are crashing…
Why are illegal migrants welcome in Britain but not Eva Vlaardingerbroek?
So they can control our borders after all. After the government presided over a near-record high for small-boats crossings last year, swinging…
Sacking Jenrick has made Badenoch stronger
The most important thing about Robert Jenrick’s sacking isn’t Robert Jenrick. It’s that it is yet another demonstration of Kemi…
Kemi sacks Robert Jenrick
Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the Tory whip and suspended his party membership. In…
How America could help bring down Iran’s Islamist regime
The near-total internet blackout imposed by the regime in Iran has now continued for nearly a week. Behind the veiled effort…
Britain’s economy is standing still under Labour
Britain’s economy is standing still. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics show GDP grew by just 0.1…
The Supreme Court’s trans athlete ruling matters to women everywhere
Women are losing trophies and, in some cases, suffering serious physical harm when male athletes are permitted to compete in…
Iran, the Shah and the revival of kingship
Earlier this week in Los Angeles – home to the largest Iranian community in the United States – thousands gathered…
The creeping collapse of Australia
Soft parenting, soft schooling, a soft legal system, soft on immigration, soft on antisemitism, and a very soft government. Australia…
Why Australians should re-evaluate Nato
Australia is facing extraordinary and unprecedented new security pressures, as the world becomes increasingly prone to warfare, post-pandemic. During these…
Australians must be given a say on immigration
‘We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.’ This was the famous quote…
Calling Trump a ‘pedophile protector’ was ‘fate’
In a time of political turmoil, the world cried out for a hero, and it may have found one in…
Starmer’s ‘jokes’ make him sound like a creepy uncle
Another week, another U-turn! This time the PM had chosen to make Prime Minister’s Questions even more torturous for himself…
Japan’s Thatcher is making a huge election gamble
Japan will go to the polls in February for a general election after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called a snap…
Starmer’s gags fail to save his PMQs
It used to be said that Keir Starmer had a magic lamp, such was his fortune in opposition. If this…
Samuel Pepys’s school should be proud, not ashamed, of its ex-pupil
‘I know not how to abstain from reading,’ wrote Samuel Pepys back in the seventeenth century. Were he by some…
Ed Miliband’s wind power delusion is costing us a fortune
Remember the summer of 2022 when politicians from Ed Miliband to Boris Johnson went around telling us that wind energy…
The SNP’s Budget was nothing but cynical spin
Yesterday, Shona Robison, Scotland’s finance minister, delivered her tax and spending plans for the coming fiscal year. The headline message…
The public are right: citizenship is a privilege, not a right
Keir Starmer is, in many ways, a remarkable prime minister. He is remarkably uncharismatic and remarkably unable to discern the…
