Purging the left has been one of Keir Starmer’s main goals since his election as leader four years ago. His team has taken ...

Elections have a wonderful way of focusing a politician’s mind. So it is with Rishi Sunak and the Tories, who are hoping their Rwanda Bill will be their salvation come the general election.

A friend wrote me to ask, “Why is this mess happening on campus?” Here is my response. Let me offer some thoughts, as a long-time professor, in hopes they spur your own. Let’s begin with ...

When you are in a hole, it is always best to stop digging. That is advice Daniel Radcliffe would have been wise to heed in his ongoing spat with JK Rowling over transgender rights.

In the course of human affairs and communications, words have specific meanings, and nowhere is this more important than in ...

Given the universal forecasts of the Tories taking a proper pasting in yesterday’s elections, it is quite something for Rishi Sunak’s party to have done worse than expected. But a truly dismal result ...

With millions of voters heading to the polls today, how many will forget to bring along suitable photo ID? One of the more noteworthy, it seems, is, er, Boris Johnson who was reportedly turned away ...

Joe Biden just threw a particularly nasty insult the way of Japan, a close ally of the United States, at a campaign event. The president accused the Japanese, along with China, Russia, and India, of ...

On the first of May, Queensland began living under the Criminal Code (Serious Vilification and Hate Crimes) and Other ...

Most protagonists of nuclear power like to say it is clean, meaning no CO2 is released, as though this is desirable.

In 2008, after his first child was born and before he was due to get married, Tom Lee began to unravel. It was as if, he ...

If you are under 40, you probably already know of Joel Golby. He writes stream-of-consciousness personal essays and the ...