Congratulations to the Met: you are officially no longer the worst run police force in the United Kingdom. The West Midlands force, led by their flailing chief Craig Guildford, are doing the damnedest to take the crown off Sir Mark Rowley and his London rozzers. The centre of the Birmingham controversy is the intelligence used to make the decision to ...
It was just 18 months ago that Keir Starmer took office, pledging to ‘stop the endless Conservative chaos’. How times change. Far from a politics that ‘treads more lightly on your lives’, it seems that every week now there is a fresh U-turn as the government totters like a punch-drunk boxer, stumbling from one crisis to the next. Mr S has done the ...
Heaven knows we could all do with a laugh right now, what with 2026 having begun in such an inauspicious manner, with tumult abroad and a stream of grim headlines at home. It would be a relief to be able to make light of it all, and to skewer the powers that be with a wry and irreverent take on the news.
While the show was in its early years a ...
In November 2023, a mass rally in support of Israel after the October 7 massacres took place in London. Body parts were still being scraped from burnt Kibbutzim, but the news cycle had already moved on. A crowd of a few thousand Israelis and Jews stood lonely in Parliament square, clutching posters of hostages. Then, suddenly, a tall woman walked ...
Over the past two days, Iran has witnessed one of the darkest and most shocking chapters of its modern history.
The nationwide shutdown of the internet and electricity in many cities was not a technical or security measure, but a deliberate attempt to hide the truth.
A truth that, after two days, was revealed through videos and reports in a stark and ...
The implosion of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival stands as a hard reminder of historical lessons ignored.
Initially, the board cancelled a scheduled Palestinian-Australian author. A mass exodus of left-wing authors followed, culminating in the resignation of festival director, Louise Adler, and the cancellation of the event.
The author’s cancellation ...
Here’s a fun fact: there’s a brand of modern-day businesses that don’t need anything more than an internet connection, a laptop, the right software and a skilled mind to get it up and running. read now...
Central bankers from around the world have issued a joint statement of support for US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, as he faces a criminal probe on top of mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump to resign early. It is very unusual for the world’s central bank governors to
The Iranian people have shown true courage as they protest against the Islamic Republic. As the pressure mounts, some elements of Iran’s regime have been pushing to negotiate with the Trump administration – trying to create the impression they are ready to drink from the ‘poisoned chalice’ as the Islamic Revolution’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini did to ...
Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s bathroom, Scott Adams’s cartoon provided the perfect reading material for the porcelain throne. Even before I knew what most of the words meant, I’d belly laugh at page after page of banal workplace humour. This is bizarre: ...
Right now, there is a blanket ban on “authorised” protests across three policing districts covering much of Greater Sydney. New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed on 6 January 2026, that the “public assembly restriction declaration” imposed on Christmas Eve 2025 would continue for another two weeks, and in fact, it’s in place until 24 ...
Congratulations to the Met: you are officially no longer the worst run police force in the United Kingdom. The West Midlands force, led by their flailing chief Craig Guildford, are doing the damnedest to take the crown off Sir Mark Rowley and his London rozzers. The centre of the Birmingham controversy is the intelligence used to make the decision to ...
It was just 18 months ago that Keir Starmer took office, pledging to ‘stop the endless Conservative chaos’. How times change. Far from a politics that ‘treads more lightly on your lives’, it seems that every week now there is a fresh U-turn as the government totters like a punch-drunk boxer, stumbling from one crisis to the next. Mr S has done the ...
Heaven knows we could all do with a laugh right now, what with 2026 having begun in such an inauspicious manner, with tumult abroad and a stream of grim headlines at home. It would be a relief to be able to make light of it all, and to skewer the powers that be with a wry and irreverent take on the news.
While the show was in its early years a ...
In November 2023, a mass rally in support of Israel after the October 7 massacres took place in London. Body parts were still being scraped from burnt Kibbutzim, but the news cycle had already moved on. A crowd of a few thousand Israelis and Jews stood lonely in Parliament square, clutching posters of hostages. Then, suddenly, a tall woman walked ...
Over the past two days, Iran has witnessed one of the darkest and most shocking chapters of its modern history.
The nationwide shutdown of the internet and electricity in many cities was not a technical or security measure, but a deliberate attempt to hide the truth.
A truth that, after two days, was revealed through videos and reports in a stark and ...
The implosion of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival stands as a hard reminder of historical lessons ignored.
Initially, the board cancelled a scheduled Palestinian-Australian author. A mass exodus of left-wing authors followed, culminating in the resignation of festival director, Louise Adler, and the cancellation of the event.
The author’s cancellation ...
Here’s a fun fact: there’s a brand of modern-day businesses that don’t need anything more than an internet connection, a laptop, the right software and a skilled mind to get it up and running. read now...
Central bankers from around the world have issued a joint statement of support for US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, as he faces a criminal probe on top of mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump to resign early. It is very unusual for the world’s central bank governors to
The Iranian people have shown true courage as they protest against the Islamic Republic. As the pressure mounts, some elements of Iran’s regime have been pushing to negotiate with the Trump administration – trying to create the impression they are ready to drink from the ‘poisoned chalice’ as the Islamic Revolution’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini did to ...
Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s bathroom, Scott Adams’s cartoon provided the perfect reading material for the porcelain throne. Even before I knew what most of the words meant, I’d belly laugh at page after page of banal workplace humour. This is bizarre: ...
Right now, there is a blanket ban on “authorised” protests across three policing districts covering much of Greater Sydney. New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed on 6 January 2026, that the “public assembly restriction declaration” imposed on Christmas Eve 2025 would continue for another two weeks, and in fact, it’s in place until 24 ...
