The Ada Lovelace myth
Lord Byron’s daughter Lady Ada Lovelace is almost as famous now as her father. An entire industry has sprung up…
Britain should resist French pressure for a joint defence plan
On Friday President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky to the Elysée with great fanfare. The Ukrainian president was in Paris…
Labour’s confusing ceasefire stance
If the Scottish Labour party are keen to get one message across at their Glasgow conference, it’s that they are…
Navalny’s cause of death changed to ‘sudden death syndrome’
How did Alexei Navalny die? The official version is that he collapsed after a walk in his Siberian prison. But…
Letitia James is helping Trump get re-elected
“Donald Trump may have authored the Art of the Deal,” said the New York attorney general Letitia James, doing her best…
In Russia, Navalny is already becoming an unperson
Newspapers across Britain and the democratic world are dominated by the news of the death – perhaps murder – of…
Why won’t Justin Welby call out Russia’s Patriarch Kirill?
Justin Welby has just visited Ukraine. While there he spoke clearly against the false religion that underlies Russia’s ideology, and…
Donald Trump ordered to pay $350 million in fraud case
Donald Trump may be spending much of his time complaining that Nato members aren’t paying their bills, but he has…
Muslims won’t be fooled by George Galloway any more
It is a measure of how conspiracy theories have triumphed in the darkest corners of the left that, when the…
David Cameron and the long history of the posh Arabist
Anyone with a smattering of knowledge of Britain’s troubled history in the Middle East will be unsurprised by Lord Cameron’s…
The feuding tearing apart the Royal Society of Literature
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that the Royal Society of Literature (founded 1820) might be one of those institutions that chugs…
What Tucker Carlson gets wrong about Russia
‘I have seen the Future and it works,’ proclaimed leftist American journalist Lincoln Steffens after visiting Bolshevik Russia in 1919.…
France’s anti-democratic streak
For the past week the airwaves in France have eulogised Robert Badinter, a name unfamiliar to many outside the Republic.…
Is Deadpool cultural containment?
With the possibility of countless spin-offs and sequels, superhero movies are typically a licence to print money. Think about Marvel…
Congressman’s campaign site suffers X-rated hack
If you want casual sex in Australia, an online mistress, a “milf live chat,” or even just “local adult hookups…
Bowen’s climate idiocy
The sheer stupidity of the Albanese government and the renewables investment lobby groups would be comical if it were not…
Brown study
As you know, I am renowned for my commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity and the eradication all forms…
