Farewell to Cambridge’s disastrous Vice-Chancellor
brett2021-09-24T11:13:38+01:00You do not have to read between the lines to realise that Toope is leaving because his brief tenure at Cambridge has been an unmitigated disaster, a fact that has
Where has the truth gone?
brett2021-09-17T14:07:35+01:00It is perfectly plain to most people that a male-born person throttling a woman for sport does not constitute great societal progress. It is possible to hold this view without
China blasting AUKUS defence deal is all the proof we need that it’s the right thing to do
brett2021-09-17T14:09:23+01:00Biden, Boris Johnson and Australian PM Scott Morrison unveiled a new AUKUS pact. It will see the three countries work together to build Australia’s first ever nuclear submarines Read more
Government must not turn our Brexit leap into one giant belly-flop
brett2021-09-14T19:14:17+01:00This week the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that Covid had changed everything and that the pandemic was not in anyone’s manifesto Read more
Twenty years after 9/11, the Western world has tragically lost the will to win
brett2021-09-14T19:12:29+01:00Like America in those days before 9/11, we think history has gone away again. Until something happens to remind us that history never stops Read more
If Boris puts up taxes, why would any conservative vote Tory ever again?
brett2021-09-10T11:01:39+01:00People might stomach a betrayal on tax, if this government was loyal to its core vote in other areas Read more
America, the Taliban and a farewell to arms
brett2021-09-02T17:40:11+01:00Thanks to the largesse of the American taxpayer, the Taliban now has more attack helicopters than the UK, and is better armed than almost every Nato country, apart from the
What can we learn about Afghanistan from Alastair Campbell?
brett2021-09-10T11:00:08+01:00Alastair Campbell bemoans Brexit Britain for not being a bigger player on the world stage. Yet half a decade on from the 2016 vote it is the Remainers like Campbell
We have armed the Taliban to cause destruction in Afghanistan and elsewhere for generations
brett2021-09-10T11:03:24+01:00In a season finale that the most dystopian screenwriter would have struggled to invent, the elite Taliban unit was itself bedecked in US military gear. Read more