The Rant Mistress

  The EU dropped a bollock. A massive bollock. A bollock the size of Jupiter. There, I said it. I am a militant remainer, someone who voted ...

  Paul Embery is not an epidemiologist, virologist, or indeed a doctor of any description. According to his Twitter bio, his main claim to f...

  Boris Johnson's latest wheeze is to declare that there will be no more new petrol- or diesel-fuelled cars sold in Britain from 2030. D...

  Oh, how we whined and whinged when it became apparent that, for a number of reasons, a holiday in the UK was going to have to replace our ...

The Dompologists came out in force as soon as their hero was busted. Apparently, Dominic Cummings going to work on what should have be...

As soon as Boris Johnson pivoted from "Stay home" to "Stay alert", I had flashbacks to Australia circa 2002. The J...

The COVID-19 pandemic should not be an excuse to score cheap political points. It is not an excuse to wish death on politicians and th...

Ever since Boris Johnson romped into power with an 80-seat majority last December, he has created a cottage industry of dead cat-dumpi...

"Get Brexit done!" That's what cut through at this election as swathes of once-safe Labour seats fell to the Conservative ...

We got home in the early hours of this morning from a brilliant holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes. Everywhere we went, my Austra...

Dead cat: Apparently coined by political strategist, Lynton Crosby, it is something said or done to draw attention away from unpleasan...

The news cycle since last Thursday has been more unedifying than usual. Perhaps it is naive to expect that people would largely agre...