Blackface is evil — why isn’t drag?
Not just feet of clay, but a faceful. Justin Trudeau went into Canada’s election on October 21st amid a row about his past penchant for applying black and brown make-up in the
Britain’s constitution needs respect, not rewriting
‘Accountability is the antithesis of independence. Judges who hold their positions at the pleasure of the executive will be expected to please the executive. Which, of course, is the whole idea’
Charlie’s angels
The Soong sisters lives were sewn into the dramatic tapestry of China’s modern history, but in this saga there is nobody with whom to sympathise or identify
Against all odds
When the whole nation is taking a huge punt on whether (or how) to leave the EU, a gambler’s memoirs are timely. Particularly when the author has spent large chunks of a
Arise ye unwoke from your slumbers
What’s to be done about the Woke revolution? Even its most vociferous critics rarely ask the question, let alone answer it. Meanwhile, champions in women’s sports boast stubble and penises; the police
A view from the ramparts
‘We don’t need more military spending, we need less. We don’t need more soldiers, we need fewer’ As a simple soldier, it should not fall to me to lay bare the shortcomings
A well-armed corporation
A measure of advancing years is the realisation that you were taught that “Clive of India” (as he is no longer called) was a star figure in our colonial history, a brilliant
Contributors
Ross Babbage served for 16 years in Australian government positions. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington DC. Joan Bakewell is a
A reckoning for justice
John Mortimer once wrote that “high among the great British contributions to world civilisation, the plays of Shakespeare, the full breakfast, the herbaceous border and the presumption of innocence, must rank our
Charlie Chaplin à la Française
A museum opened this summer in the south of France to commemorate the most popular French actor of all time. Not Gerard Depardieu, not Catherine Deneuve, but a short, bald, pretty much