4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (221+ words) A vehicle that lifts from your driveway, bypasses the gridlock below, and deposits you, serenely, wherever you choose? For most of the 20th century, it remained science fiction. Now, somewhat amazingly, the race to put a personal flying machine in private…...

12+ hour, 1+ min ago  (694+ words) The Spectator Reform have become the right-wing Lib Dems A lazy framing of British party politics portrays Reform UK playing the equivalent role on the right of British politics that the Green Party does on the left, with each outflanking…...

11+ hour, 41+ min ago  (251+ words) When it was first announced three years ago, the Enhanced Games was described by Aron d'Souza, its Australian founder, as a direct rival to the Olympics. "The International Olympic Committee has effectively been a one-party state running the world of…...

12+ hour, 16+ min ago  (306+ words) Washington's war hawks are molting down over President Trump's outreach to Iran. Senator Ted Cruz says that he is "concerned." Senator Roger Wicker fears a "disaster." Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deemed a preliminary agreement with Iran "not remotely…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (747+ words) About 15 years ago, I spoke to a relatively unknown neo-psychedelic musician from Western Australia called Kevin Parker. It was shortly before the release of Lonerism, the second album by his one-man-band bedroom project, Tame Impala. Their previous album, Innerspeaker, had…...

15+ hour, 38+ min ago  (493+ words) Another weekend, another failed and frankly pathetic attempt to kill the President of the United States. On February 22, a Sunday, Secret Service shot dead an armed 21-year-old male called'Austin Tucker Martin, who had entered'the Mar a Lago complex, although Donald…...

16+ hour, 58+ min ago  (525+ words) I was reminded of the 1971 slogan just last month, when Seattle's newly-elected mayor Katie Wilson told a university audience that she was "really, really excited" about the recent passage of a 9. 9 percent state tax that applies to any household or…...

17+ hour, 28+ min ago  (311+ words) Bulldozing through all normal market mechanisms has led to huge problems in the Chinese economy This is "Nei-juan, the economic phenomenon that is wreaking havoc across China, but is almost unheard of outside the Middle Kingdom. This needs to change,…...

14+ hour, 40+ min ago  (422+ words) Marriage and divorce are an unavoidably expensive business that usually leaves the male partner badly out of pocket Spencer's most recent book, A Very Private School, was not history but a memoir of his own boyhood hell in a British…...

16+ hour, 28+ min ago  (966+ words) On the fringes of his Unite the Kingdom rally last Saturday, Tommy Robinson was asked what he would change if he became prime minister tomorrow. "I would stop Islam, he replied baldly, before listing an inchoate set of proposals centred…...