Night Country
Because of their prolonged darkness, the polar regions have long been preferred settings for mystery and horror stories. John Carpenter…
Gangs are on the verge of taking over Haiti
Haiti seems to be on the verge of complete collapse. In the past few days, the country’s gangs – which already…
Erdogan’s battle for Turkey’s soul
‘I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,’ Shakespeare’s Mark Antony declared, before gradually inviting the bloodthirsty crowd before…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E6: The dark side of Renewable energy! Cristina Talacko, Michael de Percy, and James Allan
Cristina Talacko brings us the devastating story of one valley’s fight against a Renewable battery backup that is threatening the…
Drake, Raleigh and the irony of ‘inclusivity’ drives
The past has been cancelled at Exeter School in Devon. The names of Elizabethan naval heroes Sir Walter Raleigh and…
Will Jeremy Corbyn sue Nigel Farage?
They say opposites attract but the battle brewing between Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn is evidence to the contrary. The…
Will Kate’s rogue uncle embarrass the royals on Celebrity Big Brother?
It’s safe to say that at the moment the royals are besieged by controversy and difficulty – partially through bad…
In defence of Judge Tan Ikram
Judge Tanweer Ikram is not your usual judge. Ikram, who has a CBE to his name for services to diversity,…
Rwanda bill battered in the Lords
If you thought the Rwanda Bill was a headache last year, 2024 is shaping up to be no different. Rishi…
‘Levelling up’ is finished
Just what has the government done to try to retain the Red Wall vote? It seemed when they won a majority…
Britain is going through a shoplifting boom
Britain is experiencing a shoplifting explosion. The Association of Convenience Stores has found that its membership of small shopkeepers endured…
Canada’s Orwellian online harms Bill
There’s a way of getting children to eat something they dislike – medicine, for example – where you bury the goods in…
Rishi Sunak can’t save Britain
The Tories have hit an all-time low: an Ipsos poll shows the party on a dismal twenty per cent, with…
How can Poland’s Law and Justice party revive its fortunes?
After narrowly losing power in October’s parliamentary elections, Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) has spent the last four…
Is there anything wrong with ‘Christian nationalism’?
When does radical religious conservatism become a dangerous bid for theocracy? It’s a question that some American commentators are pondering,…
Haiti is only getting more chaotic
The Haitian government declared a state of emergency Sunday evening, following two prison breaks, as major gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue”…
The people should decide on Donald Trump, not the courts
In a big victory for democracy, but a big blow to the partisans of ‘Our Democracy™’, the Supreme Court of…
Trump could trump Putin on Ukraine
Vladimir Putin is playing his cards in the Ukraine Invasion Stakes as if he held the trump card. A resolute…
Environmentalism: from concern about clean air to throwing soup at the Mona Lisa
Garrett Hardin was a professor of biology and environmental studies at UC Santa Barbara. His “commons” was a metaphor drawn…
BBC Verify sources under scrutiny
There’s rarely a day now that the blundering BBC isn’t the news itself. This time the spotlight is back on…
Universality and the university
Recently, the Australian University Accord met to discuss the manifest failings of our tertiary education system. The result has been…
Understanding national conservatism
The Economist, the British magazine well-known for its particular metropolitan liberal worldview, had a pearl-clutching cover piece last week where…
Does France hold the key to cracking down on Islamist extremism?
Are we being ‘poisoned’ by extremism? The Prime Minister seems to think so. His speech on the steps of Downing…
