Puberty blocker ban shows public opinion turning on gender ‘affirmation’
This week in Britain, a landmark historical move to ban puberty blockers in gender clinics has been motioned and overseen…
Will Penny Mordaunt be the next prime minister?
Could Penny Mordaunt lead the Tories into the election? This is the talk this weekend after several papers splashed on…
How Putin will rig the Russian election
Pity the poor political technologists, as Russia’s professionals in the dark arts of spin, propaganda, gerrymandering and outright ballot box…
Will France’s Olympians embarrass Macron?
France host England tonight in the final match of the 2024 Six Nations. ‘Le Crunch’, as this fixture has come…
Hamas blew Gaza’s golden opportunity
Whatever else the arguments concerning the Gaza War, none is more wrong-headed than the suggestion that Gazans were living in…
The price we’ll pay for citizens’ assemblies
Citizens’ assemblies will transform Britain. That’s the promise made by activists from groups like Extinction Rebellion. Labour has also mooted…
How did this London townhouse become the world’s greatest research centre?
If you were asked to name the world’s greatest research centre in terms of discoveries per square yard, the answer…
Dystopian Google Gemini shows why misinformation laws are flawed
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. No matter how many revelations came to light of the rampant political…
Woke tropes informing Australia’s Gaza response
ACT Senator David Pocock wrote about Australia’s response to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza recently. The next day, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong…
Sam’s own goal
‘WATCH UNDER!’ was the warning cry made famous by one of Australia’s original expat Aussies living in London, as he…
Aussie life
Much has been written of Australian soccer captain Sam Kerr’s big night out in the back of a London cab.…
Brown study
I would be a poor columnist if I continued with my monk-like silence on the war in Gaza. It is…
Another popular feast
Miriam Margolyes was not wrong – however intrepid she may have been – to remark to Her late Majesty the…





