President Trump’s Board of Peace met last week. A few days later his Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a man of many talents gubernatorial and pastoral, told Tucker Carlson, ‘It would be fine if they took it all.’ He was referring to a pretty big patch of territory around the current borders of Israel. ‘Israel,’ he told Carlson, ‘is a land that God ...
The ship was HMS Bellerophon, nicknamed BILLY RUFFIAN (11A/14A), whose BATTLE honours included THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE, THE NILE and TRAFALGAR and whose most famous passenger was NAPOLEON who surrendered to her after Waterloo. Her final role was as a prison HULK (23D). Title: having 74 guns she was a ‘third-rate’.
First prize D.C. Jones, ...
When self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’ Martin Lewis gate-crashed Kemi Badenoch’s Good Morning Britain interview to reprimand the Conservative leader over her plans to cut the interest on student loans, he failed to mention that she was addressing a crisis for which he carries a little of the blame.
For years, Lewis has encouraged prospective students ...
Defence agreement
Sir: If (a big ‘if’, I know) our politicians really would like to address the parlous state of the UK’s defences (‘Indefensible’, 21 February) but refrain from the necessary tax increases and/or spending cuts out of fear their unpopularity would open the door to their opponents, they should consider adopting a device the Danes have ...
‘Do you know who I am?’ said the voice belonging to the lady who used to be my mother, crossly, at the end of the phone line.
The truthful answer is no. Since the dementia took hold, a hostile stranger who doesn’t think much of me inhabits my mother’s mind and body.
A hostile stranger who doesn’t think much of me inhabits my mother’s mind and body
No ...
In response to the rise of One Nation in the polls, a consensus among the elites emerged last week: Pauline Hanson had to be stopped. The first reaction was to repeat the tired trope that One Nation is a party of complaint without policies. Yet, One Nation has clear, common-sense policies. Opponents may disagree with them, but instead of debating them, ...
This is a two-parter, albeit linked. If you’re interested in the duplicitousness of British journalists, then keep reading. If you’re only interested in self-destructive British tax policy, skip to the middle.
Burnt repeatedly by hacks who pretend to be enraptured by my latest novel while snooping through my cupboards, I long ago learned the hard way ...
The interesting thing about political pendulums is that they always over-swing. In the campaign for this week’s Gorton and Denton by-election, one of the main lines of attack on the Reform candidate is that he used to be an academic and is therefore ill-suited to being the area’s parliamentary representative. The candidate who has suffered these ...
There used to be a show on the television called The Weakest Link. It was presented by a fierce, unpleasant woman who showed real delight in rejecting the contestants who underperformed relative to the group. Mean girls were ideal candidates for the position of host.
I was thinking of this the other day when considering the Treasurer’s unseemly attack ...
It’s not just about Darwin – but it does explain China’s bullying response to Australia’s bipartisan promises to win back control of the Darwin port’s 99-year lease from the Chinese-owned Landbridge group. Last month saw the first tangible result of a belated realisation in the West, particularly the US, of the urgent need to counter the threat posed ...
Now that Mr Albanese seems finally to have woken up to the problem of Australian antisemitism, nobody should be surprised if the board of the National Australia Day Council accedes to demands for Grace Tame to have her 2021 Australian of the Year title revoked. Ms Tame is as intelligent as she is telegenic, so she must know there is a difference ...
‘Earth has not anything to show more fair.’ I have always believed that the notion of a Dry January must have been launched on the world by von Sacher-Masoch: one of his more obscene fantasies. I would no more subject myself to it than to any of the other 11 months. They all deserve better. This year, however, malign fate intervened.
On 3 January I was ...
President Trump’s Board of Peace met last week. A few days later his Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a man of many talents gubernatorial and pastoral, told Tucker Carlson, ‘It would be fine if they took it all.’ He was referring to a pretty big patch of territory around the current borders of Israel. ‘Israel,’ he told Carlson, ‘is a land that God ...
The ship was HMS Bellerophon, nicknamed BILLY RUFFIAN (11A/14A), whose BATTLE honours included THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE, THE NILE and TRAFALGAR and whose most famous passenger was NAPOLEON who surrendered to her after Waterloo. Her final role was as a prison HULK (23D). Title: having 74 guns she was a ‘third-rate’.
First prize D.C. Jones, ...
When self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’ Martin Lewis gate-crashed Kemi Badenoch’s Good Morning Britain interview to reprimand the Conservative leader over her plans to cut the interest on student loans, he failed to mention that she was addressing a crisis for which he carries a little of the blame.
For years, Lewis has encouraged prospective students ...
Defence agreement
Sir: If (a big ‘if’, I know) our politicians really would like to address the parlous state of the UK’s defences (‘Indefensible’, 21 February) but refrain from the necessary tax increases and/or spending cuts out of fear their unpopularity would open the door to their opponents, they should consider adopting a device the Danes have ...
‘Do you know who I am?’ said the voice belonging to the lady who used to be my mother, crossly, at the end of the phone line.
The truthful answer is no. Since the dementia took hold, a hostile stranger who doesn’t think much of me inhabits my mother’s mind and body.
A hostile stranger who doesn’t think much of me inhabits my mother’s mind and body
No ...
In response to the rise of One Nation in the polls, a consensus among the elites emerged last week: Pauline Hanson had to be stopped. The first reaction was to repeat the tired trope that One Nation is a party of complaint without policies. Yet, One Nation has clear, common-sense policies. Opponents may disagree with them, but instead of debating them, ...
This is a two-parter, albeit linked. If you’re interested in the duplicitousness of British journalists, then keep reading. If you’re only interested in self-destructive British tax policy, skip to the middle.
Burnt repeatedly by hacks who pretend to be enraptured by my latest novel while snooping through my cupboards, I long ago learned the hard way ...
The interesting thing about political pendulums is that they always over-swing. In the campaign for this week’s Gorton and Denton by-election, one of the main lines of attack on the Reform candidate is that he used to be an academic and is therefore ill-suited to being the area’s parliamentary representative. The candidate who has suffered these ...
There used to be a show on the television called The Weakest Link. It was presented by a fierce, unpleasant woman who showed real delight in rejecting the contestants who underperformed relative to the group. Mean girls were ideal candidates for the position of host.
I was thinking of this the other day when considering the Treasurer’s unseemly attack ...
It’s not just about Darwin – but it does explain China’s bullying response to Australia’s bipartisan promises to win back control of the Darwin port’s 99-year lease from the Chinese-owned Landbridge group. Last month saw the first tangible result of a belated realisation in the West, particularly the US, of the urgent need to counter the threat posed ...
Now that Mr Albanese seems finally to have woken up to the problem of Australian antisemitism, nobody should be surprised if the board of the National Australia Day Council accedes to demands for Grace Tame to have her 2021 Australian of the Year title revoked. Ms Tame is as intelligent as she is telegenic, so she must know there is a difference ...
‘Earth has not anything to show more fair.’ I have always believed that the notion of a Dry January must have been launched on the world by von Sacher-Masoch: one of his more obscene fantasies. I would no more subject myself to it than to any of the other 11 months. They all deserve better. This year, however, malign fate intervened.
On 3 January I was ...
