Lionel Messi shouldn’t have been in Hong Kong in the first place
Football has turned messy in Hong Kong. Last Sunday, the beleaguered Hong Kong Chinese Communist party was hoping for a…
Israel has to invade Rafah if it wants to destroy Hamas
When news broke that Israel planned to start an offensive in the city of Rafah, in the southern part of…
The fight for civilization in higher education
The idea that Western civilization ushered in an age of oppression, cultural destruction, environmental degradation and all manner of human…
David Cameron is taking a harsher line on Israel
Lord Cameron has shown again this afternoon how much the government’s tone on the conflict in Gaza has changed recently.…
Could the Lords stop the Emirati bid for the Telegraph and The Spectator?
I’ve just given evidence to a House of Lords Select Committee which is considering the future of news and media…
Why I miss Michael Crichton
Western culture is a mess and the side of common sense seems to be drowning under the well-funded forces of…
The presumption of guilt
In a sweltering, steamy Queensland summer, strange things happen when it gets too hot to handle. Violent crime was the…
Activists accuse Rowan Atkinson of fuelling the Climate ‘Crisis’ after criticising EVs
Rowan Atkinson is being (bizarrely) accused of hurting EV sales after saying electric vehicles are all show, no substance. Left-wing…
Our children do not belong to the State
The Culture of Schools and the Problem of Change was the first book I read when I was moving professionally…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E3: Did Mr Bean destroy the EV market?! James Allan, Augusto Zimmermann, and Nick Cater
James Allan ponders the fate of Ron DeSantis after stepping aside to give Donald Trump a free run at the…
Sunak is playing it safe with new housing plans
Rishi Sunak seems to have realised a trick for pushing more building without confronting Tory Nimbyism. Under plans unveiled today,…
Rishi Sunak should ignore this biased Rwanda Bill report
‘UK’s Rwanda Bill incompatible with human rights obligations… damning report by MPs warns.’ So ran the headline yesterday morning, referring to the report released…
Too many people in Britain aren’t working
Britain’s worklessness crisis is getting worse. This morning the ONS released figures showing that 1.3 million are on unemployment. But…
Does Rishi Sunak think Labour is already running the country?
He strutted into the middle of the studio in dark slacks and a creaseless white shirt. Nippy, zestful, ready for…
Job vacancies fall – but not by enough to lower interest rates
Has the Labour market cooled down enough for the Bank of England to change its mind on interest rates? Almost…
Canada’s ridiculous housing ban for foreigners
Canada, like many countries, has certain limitations in place related to foreign investment and ownership – in everything from large-scale businesses…
Why progressives don’t face real consequences
One of the most tedious and repetitive observations made in the often tedious and repetitive discourse around cancel culture is…
What Trump gets right about Nato
With the exception of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Slovakia’s Robert Fico, it’s safe to assume that Europe is petrified about the prospects…
Opening a bottle with… Angela Hartnett
Quizzed on how to assimilate to new cultures, travel writer and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain once said: “Drink heavily with…
Trump says he will let NATO down. How will Kamala Harris respond?
When Donald Trump declared that Russia could do “whatever the hell it wants” to NATO countries, he was espousing his…
Live not by lies
The day he was arrested by the KGB, Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released Live Not by Lies. It…
Shocking mismanagement of the Opera House protests must be investigated
What was the NSW government thinking?
Why no-fault evictions shouldn’t be banned
A decade ago, left-wingers started using the phrase ‘zero hours contracts’ to refer to what had previously been known as…
The blind men and the elephant
We are at an extraordinary time in history. In some ways, it feels great to be alive to tell the…
Trump’s madness will strengthen Nato
‘Appalling and unhinged’ was Joe Biden’s (or at least the White House’s) verdict on Donald Trump’s remarks that he might…
