Why Albanese’s Kylie remarks went down so badly in Australia
They’ve found a new way to destroy One Nation
Labor, the Coalition, and the media are attempting to do something very clever to destroy One Nation, and it’s not…
Are Teal voters turning Orange?
I was sent the unintentionally hilarious article in the Australian Financial Review titled: Here’s who’s really funding Pauline Hanson’s political takeover. It’s…
Julia Gillard claims it was a ‘different time’
Julia Gillard’s attempt to backpedal on gender laws is wild. For those who missed it, Julia Gillard’s Labor government was…
WA lost a Liberal MP, and barely anyone noticed
Trainee MP David Farley makes a mistake and sits with the Green (whoops!) and all hell breaks loose. Headline after…
Green energy turned into Armageddon
Earlier this week, I wrote that our Prime Minister is far from cool. I didn’t say he isn’t cunning. By…
There is a single law: the outsider is not fit to govern
Our most serious commentators are certain the arrivistes in our politics cannot govern. The record establishes only that certainty is…
The sun never goes down on the American Empire
On June 17, 2026, Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles. The symbolism…
Slippin’ Jimmy goes to Canberra
I decided to revisit Better Call Saul over the weekend. One thing that stuck out to me was the nickname…
What the Princess of Wales said at Wimbledon without saying anything
The most devastating intervention in the Duke of Sussex’s long war over his British security detail came last week, and…
What I learned at ARC
With everything completely stonkered, hope is often in short supply. But for me and thousands of others, the Alliance for…
Sweep the sheds
The great New Zealand rugby sides have long lived by a simple mantra: ‘Sweep the sheds.’ The phrase refers to…
Are we sheep?
A little under two years ago, almost three months following the UK’s general election, the dean of British psephology noted…
Albo’s cold fart warmed up, or Gus’ genuine cool?
Anthony Albanese stepped off his RAAF jet last October in his jeans with a Joy Division T-shirt stretched across his…
An open letter to the Honourable Angus Taylor
Dear Sir, First, I would like to say that your low rating in the polls is largely the fault of…
The danger of drift
CS Lewis once observed, ‘It is funny how day by day nothing changes. But when you look back, everything is…
Bowen, are you sure?
At a climate change conference in Germany in June, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said, ‘We have…
Allegiance, not diversity, defines a nation
Clare O’Neil recently saw fit to issue what some may call a ‘political loyalty test’ from the floor of Parliament,…
Labor’s social media ban fails again!
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But what happens if it is broken, and the fix is more political…
Productivity is prosperity
Productivity and prosperity – these are two concepts intimately linked and yet wrongly separated thanks to the over-taxing demands of…
The sophistication of denial
In recent weeks, One Nation briefly passed Labor in the published surveys and became, on paper, the country’s most popular…
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner loses again – A victory for free speech | Celine Baumgarten S3 Ep 18
Celine Baumgarten (Celine Against the Machine) has celebrated her SECOND victory against the eSafety Commissioner. This wasn’t only a personal…
Did Donald Trump conquer the world with witty insults? | Joel Gilbert S3 Ep 17
Did Donald Trump conquer the world with witty insults? I’m joined by Joel Gilbert to discuss the genius of humour…
Digital tyranny or ‘child safety’? 😵 & the bitcoin revolution | Efrat Fenigson S3 Ep 16
When Australia’s Under 16 social media ban started locking adult political writers out of #Substack – it was just the…
What’s in a name?
A fortnight ago, my wife and I were driving some 750 kilometres one day from the north-western tip of Newfoundland…
Hey, big spenders
I’m always up for a bit of an adventure. So, when I was in Melbourne recently, I thought I would…
Words that changed the world
Two hundred and fifty years ago today, on 4 July 1776, fifty-six men adopted the Declaration of Independence. It is…
Britain has a governess
For someone arriving in London for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, the weather forecast looked positively Mediterranean. Early morning…
Australia’s kulaks face vicious campaign
The recent appearance by Labor’s right-wing eminence Don Farrell in the Weekend Australian was a master-class in political theatre. With…
Nowak sacrificed on the altar of DEI
I’d be lying if I claimed to dislike polemic, but I do try to avoid it. Yet in this moment,…
Erasing the portrait of a nation
National cultural institutions are entrusted with preserving a country’s historical memory. When they lose sight of that mission, the consequences…
We are many but we are one
The highly charged debate about multiculturalism, monoculturalism and Australian values is generating more heat than light because people are arguing…
Why Albanese’s Kylie remarks went down so badly in Australia
Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is someone who wants to be liked even more than respected. He wants to be…
Labour’s tinpot free speech crackdown
We’re in the middle of an ‘orderly transition’ of power from Keir Starmer to whoever might just possibly take over…
This Nato summit will be Starmer’s final humiliation
Sir Keir Starmer attended his first Nato summit in Washington, DC four days after becoming Prime Minister in July 2024.…
The Green party councillor being investigated by the GMC
A newly-elected Green councillor who is also an NHS GP is being investigated by the General Medical Council after The…
The shame of Pride
Someone shouting “Fuck you, Jews”. Another telling the Jews they’re baby-killers. A man suggesting the Jews should “go back” to…
The civil service’s war on expertise
The revelation in The Spectator last week that the Treasury is more concerned with boosting its DEI outcomes than hiring…
Is the conversion therapy bill really worth £783 million?
The Cabinet Office has published its impact assessment of the government bill to ban conversion practices – acts which attempt to change…
Should Paul Pelosi be on the road?
When President Trump refers to Nancy Pelosi as “Nervous Nancy,” you might assume he’s talking about her policies or leadership…
Did anyone vet Big Ange’s LBC love-in?
‘What’s Big Ange up to?’ was a question Sir Keir Starmer had to ask himself basically every day of his…
The World Cup has revived American soft power
Not only were the England fans outnumbered by 30 to one inside the Azteca stadium, but on their way to…
Is this Italian general a threat to Giorgia Meloni?
There seems little doubt now that Giorgia Meloni’s government will survive until 4 September and so become the longest lasting…
Is any Labour MP brave enough to admit the truth about Andy Burnham?
There’s been much comment on the appointment of James Purnell as Andy Burnham’s chief of staff. Along with the widely…
A New Zealand republic in Jacinda Ardern’s lifetime?
New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, believes the nation will become a republic within her lifetime. We have heard…
The row over English becoming an official language of New Zealand
Parliamentarians in New Zealand have been limbering up for an oddly unedifying debate over what ought to be the most…
What they don’t tell you about Christmas in New Zealand
‘I still think New Zealand the most beautiful country I have ever seen,’ Agatha Christie marvelled in 1922. Evidently she’s…
What will Jacinda Ardern do next?
When I first met Jacinda Ardern in the early 2010s, the notion that the young MP with the toothy smile…
Revealed: the shady funding of net zero
Tip-Toeing in Manchester
The world knows that Andy Burnham, the ‘King from the North’, was a very successful mayor of Manchester. There have…
Beauty, blarney and banshees
It’s a bit odd in its way that a fair fraction of the more or less British theatre we watch…
Striped caps and striking shoes
June 11 saw the death of the Yorkshire-born English painter David Hockney who was arguably the most celebrated painter of…
A man of music
The other day saw the opening of the Peter Corrigan Collection at RMIT which comprises his personal collection of architectural…
A century of movie magic: how cinema has changed the way we think
The making of films is a process often on an industrial scale, and among the thousands of professionals contributing there…
The conspiracy of silence surrounding the Nord Stream bombings
Six months after undersea explosions ripped through three of the four Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany I…
Our resentment of migrants is centuries old: the Little Englanders of the Tudor era
This Little World opens with a description of the riots of 1517, an explosion of pent-up hostility and resentment against…
Small, skewed pictures that cast a spell: the art of Mollie Douthit
In this clever, moving mosaic of a book, Sara Baume tells us she originally wanted to be an art critic…
Family Tyrant: The Anniversary, by Andrea Bajani, reviewed
Andrea Bajani’s short novel The Anniversary won Italy’s Premio Strega prize last year and has since become an international bestseller.…
Disability is becoming the new normal
Before I became confined to a wheelchair two years ago after an operation for a spinal abscess, I’d never read…
Persistent gossip about Brian Epstein’s death risks defining his life
We know the facts about Brian Epstein’s death. The Beatles’ manager died in bed at his Belgravia home on 27…
Do single women bother to cook for themselves?
‘Let us begin with cookbooks. Or, rather, with a rejection of them. I cannot look at mine. They remind me…