Harry and Meghan’s Australia trip is a pathetic cry for public love
Angus Taylor to echo One Nation’s migration policy
One Nation has been at the forefront of migration policy. Many months ago, One Nation posted their policy which states, among…
Western Australia frustrated over fuel stockpiles?
The Albanese government appears to have frustrated one of its state Labor allies. Western Australia Energy Minister, Amber-Jade Sanderson, has expressed…
Every little bit helps. How to waste $20 million on an ad campaign
While the Treasurer plots how to take money out of our pockets in the next Budget, we discover the Albanese…
From Pluto, with love
The debate about whether or not to include Pluto as a planet is part-nostalgia, part-history, part-historical justice, part-science, and part-aww,…
Iran at a crossroads: Australia’s opportunities and pitfalls
Over the last few weeks, the Islamist regime in Tehran has expanded the scope of its hostage-taking operation. Not satisfied…
The Australian apocalypse approaches
An apocalypse is considered to be a number of events that cause widespread destruction on a catastrophic scale. You may question…
Embarrassing: Is Australia missing the next tech age?
While Australia remains fixated on renewables, the rest of the world is accelerating into a new era of energy and…
The jobs Australians won’t do
We are often told that Australia needs foreign workers because there are many ‘jobs that Australians won’t do’. Across a…
Born in April: A toast to Jefferson and Hitchens
Today is April 13th. Thomas Jefferson was born on this date in 1743. Christopher Hitchens was born on this date…
One Nation is protecting cash, not the Treasurer
Those who heard Senator Michaelia Cash’s speech about One Nation’s decision to vote against Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Competition and Consumer…
What did I miss?
Anthony Albanese sulked, cap in hand, to Singapore. Fossil fuel is better for the environment if someone else drills for…
What if they held an election and nobody came?
The South Australian state election in March saw Labor comfortably home, yet again, but the insurgent One Nation became the…
Let’s ‘turn back time’, Albo
Our Prime Minister, in one of his frequently mundane press conferences, reminded us that ‘we can’t turn back the clock’…
Addressing Australia’s self-inflicted energy crisis
How could Australia be suffering a double energy crisis when the nation exports several times more energy than it consumes…
A five-point plan for Aussie AI
Last week, OpenAI released a white paper titled Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age. It’s unusually candid about the risks…
Zen and the art of truck driving
Philosophy, at its best, is not some airy-fairy meditation on the meaning of life. It is a set of rules…
‘How to Save Our Churches’ – A Catholic Perspective
Kemi Badenoch is right to draw attention to the crisis facing Britain’s historic churches. When nearly a thousand places of…
After October 7, deterrence is no longer enough
The October 7 Hamas terrorist attack did more than expose a catastrophic intelligence failure. It exposed the limits of deterrence…
The foundations of Iran
In this writing, I want to introduce the world to the true foundations of Iran. The ‘infrastructure of Iran’ is…
Government set to make extreme police powers permanent
The ‘frog in boiling water’ is a common anecdote. According to the story, if you put a frog in boiling…
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…
My fellow Libs, we need to pick a side
The Islamic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach brought us to a crossroad. The tearing apart of the national fabric has,…
Unstoppable wind and sun
The Albanese government thought it had scored a political win from the leaking of the Coalition’s talking points in the…
The land we forgot to remember
The Prime Minister recently characterised One Nation as ‘…some politicians, some of which have risen up recently in the polling,…
Blind Freddy goes fracking
We are now paying the price after decades of demonising fossil fuels. The mythical fraudulent human-induced climate change ideology and…
When the Law of War comes home to roost
Ben Roberts-Smith VC was arrested this week after a long-running investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. He was not…
Ben Roberts-Smith and the confused battlefield
So Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested, and his life will never be the same again. Over the next few years…
Labor is busy fuelling the fuel crisis
When a product becomes scarce, prices rise to ration demand. That is not a moral judgement. It is a mechanism,…
Labor’s fossil fools
It’s hard not to experience cognitive dissonance watching Labor’s hapless ministers respond to the global energy crisis. For five weeks,…
Germany’s fuel price relief has backfired on motorists
The temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran was certainly a relief for car drivers across Europe. Ever since…
Will Spain’s migrant amnesty backfire?
Spain’s cabinet has just approved a law that allows over half a million undocumented migrants and asylum seekers already in…
The intertwined lives and deaths of Jean Genet and Simone de Beauvoir
A strange literary coincidence occurred in Paris exactly 40 years ago, on 14 April, 1986. In the small hours of…
Harry and Meghan’s Australia trip is a pathetic cry for public love
Before dawn today, a Qantas jet touched down in Melbourne from the United States. Aboard, flying commercial first class but…
The high cost of Ed Miliband’s ‘cheap’ renewable energy
First the good news. Some commercial users may be enjoying free electricity at some point this summer – or better…
The great soccer World Cup swindle
Tickets for this summer’s soccer World Cup are the most expensive in the tournament’s history. Or the history of any sporting…
If Trump hates the Wall Street Journal so much, why is its editorial board dictating Iran policy?
For the better part of a decade, Donald Trump has been an avid, if irascible, reader of the Wall Street…
Ireland’s sinister media crackdown over the fuel protests
Last week, when Irish farmers and hauliers began their protest about the rising cost of fuel, they were dismissed as…
Why is Labour so obsessed by what we eat?
The government has serious work to do. As world war looms and the economy dives perilously close to recession, they…
Will the US blockade force Iran to negotiate?
As Israel prepared to mark Yom HaShoah last night, remembering the Holocaust, the American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz…
Swalwell’s fall was electoral math not morality
Eric Swalwell’s fall from viable gubernatorial contender to political casualty was swift and surgical. He was among the frontrunners to…
Who will take responsibility for Southport?
The official report into the Southport attacks — in which 17-year old Axel Rudakubana murdered three girls at a Taylor Swift…
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…
The de-Wokification of New Zealand’s education system
The conservative coalition government of New Zealand came to office promising to wind back an enormous, government-run system of ‘Woke’…
Organised crime is targeting artisanal food
Cruelties of popular culture
Ethan Hawke is an extraordinary figure. He has made straightforward Hollywood classics like Training Day but he also comes out…
Deaths in the mind
It’s strange the way certain deaths stay in the mind perhaps because of the fascination and interconnection of the lives…
A daily beauty
It’s fascinating to see that Sharmill are presenting a new Othello from London’s Haymarket from 28 March with David Harewood…
A versatile and virtuouso figure
Well, the Oscars have come and gone and we tend only to remember the anomalies. Julie Andrews winning the Oscar…
Motherless friends: Kin, by Tayari Jones, reviewed
Set in the American South during the Jim Crow era, Tayari Jones’s Kin follows the parallel lives of Annie and…
Singing of arms and the man: Son of Nobody, by Yann Martel, reviewed
Yann Martel, the author of Beatrice and Virgil and Life of Pi, typically explores competing storylines, narrative reliability and the…
Landscapes of longing in illuminated Books of Hours
Christopher de Hamel is an outstanding salesman. At Sotheby’s, back in the 1990s, he brokered the sale of the 15th-century…
Defiantly creative to the end: the transgressive Dorothea Tanning
I received this book for review on the same day that Dorothea Tanning was making headlines in the auction world,…
How the paralysed Franz Rosenzweig continued to translate the Bible
In the early years of the 20th century, a young philosopher named Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) set himself the task of…
Self-betterment through contemplation of the Seven Deadly Sins
What mistake did Narcissus make when he looked into the water? To fall in love with his own ravishing self,…
Rebarbative relatives abound: The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley, reviewed
Like its predecessor My Phantoms (2021), Gwendoline Riley’s new novel is stuffed to the gills with the sort of people…
The harm of dwelling on a traumatic past
Back in the 1970s, people in Britain were mystified by the enthusiasm of Americans – especially New Yorkers – for…