Australian politics is becoming increasingly toxic
Wangaratta is a busy regional town in northern Victoria. It’s a place to stop and take a break on the day-long drive between Melbourne and Sydney. For locals, ‘Wang’ serves the region’s agricultural...
View ArticleWhy did ITV’s hit job on Reform flop so badly?
ITV clearly hoped their latest documentary would be a shocking exposé of Reform. Their year-long investigation involved an undercover reporter infiltrating Reform HQ by securing employment there. Now...
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Jonathan Powell’s wife backed Starmer being tried at the Hague
Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, has had a busy 24 hours. The Spectator revealed yesterday that she had (among other things) defended Hamas, questioned the...
View ArticleTories take aim at polygamous marriages in welfare crackdown
The Tories are taking the fight to polygamous and incestuous marriage today, with a Bill to end welfare recognition of men with multiple wives. Richard Holden’s Social Security (Marriage) Bill would...
View ArticleBritain is right to ally with Oman
On the morning of 19 July 1972, around 400 communist insurgents launched a surprise attack on the Omani coastal town of Mirbat, opening up with a mortar bombardment before advancing towards the...
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Is the jobs collapse finally starting to slow?
Has the jobs market bottomed out? Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that, unexpectedly, the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 per cent, with the employment rate ticking...
View ArticleWatching Paris burn hasn’t been enjoyable at all
Watching Paris burn at the weekend, it occurred to me that saying ‘I told you so’ was a lot less fun than I thought it would be. I surprised myself by not emitting a bitter cackle at the viral clip of...
View ArticleFrance is far too soft on crime
France experienced its first night of calm since the weekend on Monday evening after the imposition of curfews in several cities and towns. The Prime Minister, Sebastien Lecornu, said he is ‘absolutely...
View ArticleThe Palestine flag has become the symbol of anti-western hate
Given that the French-speaking world gave us the science of semiotics, they would be the first to recognise that the Palestine flag, as it is being hoisted and brandished across the French republic at...
View ArticleThe idiocy and profligacy of the left-wing Canary news
The left-wing Canary news website is to close, blaming debanking and a ‘vicious campaign of malicious lies’ conducted by its very own staff. In other words, anyone and everyone is to blame but the...
View ArticlePutin can smell Washington’s desperation
Donald Trump has staked a big chunk of his political credibility on finding peace in Ukraine – and by doing so in partnership with Vladimir Putin, and on the Kremlin’s terms. But is Putin ready to play...
View ArticleCould this be the end of the French Fifth Republic?
May 1958. After 12 years, France’s Fourth Republic was ungovernable, with cabinets lasting barely seven months on average. Four years of worsening war in Algeria culminated in the army’s Algiers putsch...
View ArticleCould things get any worse for BBC Verify?
When Tim Davie, the former BBC director-general, announced the expansion of BBC Verify, the organisation’s external fact-checking branch, last May, he claimed it would ‘nurture trust’ among readers,...
View ArticleDoes John Healey want to kill off the family business?
Rachel Reeves made a great start – but now it looks as if her successor as Chancellor John Healey is determined to finish the job. With yet another tax raid reportedly being planned, the Treasury has...
View ArticleHas Netflix missed a trick with Meghan Markle?
Now that Meghan Markle has successfully – in her own estimation, at least – once again won the battle for hearts and minds in Britain after her trip to Nottingham with Prince Harry, her thoughts have...
View ArticleRevealed: the ‘Palestine poppy’ creator who justified stoning
The creator of the ‘Palestine poppy’ is an Oxford-educated paediatrician who has written books for Muslim teenagers justifying stoning and warning that homosexuality is ‘a test from Allah’. Abdul Qader...
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The truth about Labour’s junk food promotion ban
Andy Burnham’s government is reportedly pressing ahead with further restrictions on promoting unhealthy foods with deals like ‘buy one get one free’. These regulations were introduced by Boris Johnson,...
View ArticleWho is going to enforce Burnham’s train noise crackdown?
You’ve got to hand it to Andy Burnham. The world is on fire, the country is in a mess, but he has a knack of seeing through the chaos, and alighting on the smallest things to offer new hope. That is...
View ArticleFor Putin, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving
The diesel deal between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump has finally broken the relationship between Washington and Kyiv. If the Republicans perform as badly as predicted in the midterms, Trump will...
View ArticleWill Labour MPs allow Burnham to end the Neets crisis?
I can’t fault the sentiment contained in a piece which has appeared under Andy Burnham’s name this morning about the crisis of having a million young people not in education, employment or training...
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