There are quite a few on the 'progressive', lefty side of the divide who believe that votes for 16 year-olds is a guaranteed way to ...

 One of the questions in this year's Predictions Compo is: Size of V. Putin's share of the Russian vote (as announced) I have news ...

Recently Ukraine's President Zelensky caused a stir (rapidly overtaken by other news) when firing his fairly well-regarded Commander of ...

A couple of weeks ago at Mr Wendland's prompting, I undertook to post on the putative Sizewell C contract, currently "under negotia...

As oft-noted here, Evans-Pritchard is often amusingly contrarian with an interesting point to make; and equally often just plain bonkers.  H...

It may seem quixotic to pick on any one highly suspect facet of the vague 'Net Zero' plans we, along with every other western nation...

Apparently the Welsh are intending to 'reform' the Council Tax.  Of the 3 options under consideration , one is feeble: simple revalu...

+ + UPDATED + +   - see below Defence projects are the bane of the taxpayer's existence.  (Along with NHS IT projects, PPS procurement e...

Revanchism is generally understood in 20th century Leninist or Maoist terms: the capitalist / imperialist classes lashing out against their...

It may seem perverse to wonder whether the USA is withdrawing into an isolationist shell only a couple of days after it has orchestrated a r...

So here we are, crystal balls at the ready, testing our predictive powers on the year ahead.  What will 2024 bring?  Some of the big unknown...

For context, in philosophical terms I am (approximately) what is termed a scientific realist, meaning that (a) there are objective truths ab...

It's Morgan again - & this time he chooses to pick a fight with the nation's choice of its beloved Sweary Goalkeeper as Sports P...

Lineker Lookalike compo, UAE entry Each COP since at least COP21 in Paris has claimed to be the "last-chance-to-save-the-world, one-min...

Whenever I see someone who's done one Very Good Thing, but is otherwise seriously reprehensible, I am reminded of Auberon Waugh's d...

Ever a reliable source of glimpses into leftie angst, this week the Grauniad provides us with these competing accounts, within two days of ...

Having a brain the size of a planet doesn't in any way guarantee clear thinking or intelligent decision-making.  But large cranial capac...

We were never very kind towards Alistair Darling here.  Well, a Labour Chancellor, who once supported a Tobin tax - what do you expect? But...

Reading about  the business fortunes of that prodigy Euan Blair (supposedly worth £420m at one stage - but very much on paper, we must conc...

So - what do we think?   Does Hunt's Statement change anything?   Is the Tory goose so truly cooked, nothing can save it?   Has he succ...