AI is a psychopath
Did anyone else catch that fleeting headline in the Daily Mail, claiming: Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make biological weapons…
Wake up, Bowen. Nap time is over!
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen doesn’t seem to be enjoying is multi-million-dollar pre-COP soirée. Aside from criticism that…
Shoebridge’s obsession with turtle politics
You have to admire the commitment to delusion. Newly appointed Greens Leader, David Shoebridge, fronted the cameras and declared his…
The price of coffee could lose Albo the election
The price of coffee is set to become an election-defining issue after the Prime Minister was ridiculed and community-noted across…
Labor’s credit card surcharge fiasco hits mums and dads
The surcharge ban was sold as ‘money back every time you tap’. A month in, it has been reported that…
Britain cannot enforce half of Oslo
On September 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an import ban on goods from Israeli communities beyond the 1967…
Fizzer in Fiji takes the wind out of Bowen’s turbines
Four years of promises, modelling, and National Press Club performances have run into higher electricity bills, angry people who live…
One day on the road to Moora
Have you read Xavier Herbert’s masterpiece, Poor Fellow my Country? You should, it’s about life in the Northern Territory between…
Every radical has an origin story
Tucker Carlson recently made the mistake of debating Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg on war and history. It didn’t go well. Rees-Mogg…
Where is Australia’s Gettysburg address?
Once upon a time, there was Camelot, when the world was ruled by US President John F. Kennedy and his…
Albanese is a global citizen, but whose world is it?
Perhaps Latika Bourke asked the question many Australians will be thinking… While Anthony Albanese was preparing to receive the Atlantic…
Ted Lasso was wrong about kindness
Think of the last meeting where somebody floated a dud idea and the whole room knew it. Did anyone say…
Boys are no longer educated, they are emasculated
Boys are struggling in literacy, completion, and behaviour. It is no secret. In March 2026 Education Minister Jason Clare opened…
Never forget the evil of October 7
It seems like only yesterday, but it was in fact three years ago when David Adler rang me on that…
From Reith to Rishworth and beyond
In 1993, Peter Reith wrote in his diaries and republished in his memoir, The Reith Papers, that even though the…
Rumble in the shallows
Coogee has always known how to draw a crowd. On Anzac Day 1935, a tiger shark on display at the…
Louise Clegg is right about the Teals. Now, the hard part…
I should declare a bias. I have always been a little wary of Louise Clegg’s view of the world, partly…
Chris Bowen doesn’t need a Khemlani, he’s got you and me
Whitlam’s infamous Minister for Minerals and Energy, Rex Connor, set in motion the wheels that led to The Dismissal on…
Flight 1073 and what we can learn from modern-day Spartans
While we celebrate the heroism that saved many lives on board Flydubai flight 1073, we should take the opportunity to…
Multiculturalism and the great Australian levelling
With One Nation now polling at or above Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition a distant third, Australia appears to be…
ALBO, THE COFFEE WHISPERER – Labor might be the worst economic managers of all time | S3 Ep 22
In this episode… Albo’s ‘not-so-cheap’ coffee. ☕️ Is Jim Chalmers a good Treasurer? Is the 5% house deposit scheme causing…
GLOBALIST IN CHIEF – Albanese accepts his award & Trump cancels ‘Fake News’ Media | S3 Ep 21
This week… Javier Milei ‘rips the United Nations to shreds’. Albanese’s good little globalist award. Digital Duty of Censorship… I…
SILENCE OF THE ROYALS – Spencer’s memoir and the death of the last Royal carriage maker | S3 Ep 20
This week with Professor David Flint. Does the ghost of Princess Diana still pose a threat to King Charles’ legacy?…
Third anniversary, October 7
The release of the Coalition’s immigration policy coincided with the third anniversary this week of the horrific 7 October massacre,…
Albo’s out of control spending
Almost fifty years ago, in his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan said, ‘We don’t have inflation because the…
Cowardly corporate crony capitalists rule
Last week, I attended the annual conference of the H.R. Nicholls Society. The society is ‘dedicated to advocating for sensible…
Giggle v. Tickle v. Macbeth
Talking recently with an old acquaintance, now a barrister, I spoke of how disappointing it was that the High Court…
Go directly to jail!
Having addressed the position of the ever-shrivelling teals last week, I was well into drafting a piece turning to focus…
Business/Robbery, etc
There’s now a coal boom in Asia that the ideology-driven, anti-coal Albanese Labor government doesn’t want to know about –…
En garde! China and AI
Early in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch finds himself facing the intimidating Harvey Logan, who has decided that…
Painted clay
‘The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation: that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.’ That’s…
Hamas: Triumph of the intellectuals
On 7 October 2023, the world experienced in a real-time livestream what the absence of a secure Jewish state meant…
Australia on a road to ruin
Australians’ pessimism about the future of the country is now probably at its highest level. Polling suggests an extraordinary two…
Return of the King
King Coal is back! This week the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission gave permission for two coalminers in the…
Brown study
I don’t know if Anthony Albanese actually learned anything from his recent sojourn at the United Nations, but I doubt…
The British Muslim Trust’s mosque attack claims don’t add up
This week, The Spectator exposed how the British Muslim Trust (BMT), paid millions of pounds by the Government as its official monitor…
Zack Polanski is on the brink after his Holborn by-election defeat
Zack Polanski’s failure to win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election is not just a disappointment; it undermines the Green…
Labour’s by-election triumph is a sign of Burnham’s signal achievement
Labour has comfortably won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election with 45 per cent of the vote, leaving Zack Polanski…
Why Labour doesn’t want to talk about NHS waiting lists
Remember NHS waiting lists? They used to be a political priority for the Labour government, which would claim it was…
Who’s to say Simon Pegg doesn’t have ADHD?
Simon Pegg has announced his diagnosis of ADHD, a condition now so well known that its abbreviation is normally left…
The mudslinging midterms
This is not an edifying election. That’s putting it delicately. An honest look at the quality of the candidates and…
Mothin Ali’s by-election day blunder
Oh dear. It is polling day in Holborn and St Pancras and the Greens are staring down the face of…
Andy Burnham looked ill at ease in Berlin
Andy Burnham has been in Berlin today – his first bilateral diplomatic visit since entering Downing Street nearly three months…
Rubio picked the wrong Athenian
The Pnyx is a scrubby hill west of the Acropolis where Athenian citizens once crammed together to argue, vote and,…
A small victory for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Whisper it, but the tide may be turning for one of Britain’s most unpopular, and unfortunate, men. The news that…
The irony of Labour’s crackdown on fake gay asylum seekers
On Tuesday morning, three people were arrested by Home Office immigration enforcement because of their suspected links to a criminal…
The decade of Trump has been a necessary corrective
The past two centuries have been the era of mass production, of people as well as things. To a degree…
Why you shouldn’t shrug at New Zealand’s greyhound racing ban
Greyhound racing ended in New Zealand on August 1. Those who neither own a greyhound nor care for the sport…
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…
The anti-Semitic alliance between Restore and the Greens
That sinister sense of comic patter
Harold Pinter is one of the great dramatists of the last hundred years, perhaps the only one who can hold…
From another world
It’s striking what we can experience if we look back at the images of the recent past, aided by YouTube.…
An elegance that is hair-raising
Sometimes cultural news is just bad news. Everyone was delighted at the thought that Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland was being turned…
A gorgeous evocation of the natural world
The world of artistic expression runs in a thousand ways. The Melbourne Symphony’s Spring Gala – paralleling the Opera’s Wagner…
A literary romp: Our Noble Selves, by Kate Atkinson, reviewed
It is hard to imagine a setting better suited to bureaucratic absurdity than the lead-up to the 1951 Festival of…
All the big hitters are here: scenes from the golden age of boxing
In 1891, in Thomas Edison’s makeshift film studio – a shack in West Orange, New Jersey – two men put…
Winning hearts and minds: propaganda of the Spanish Civil War
History, as the aphorism frequently attributed to Winston Churchill would have it, is written by the victors. This certainly holds…
A bullying monster: the infamous Roy Cohn, Donald Trump’s early mentor
For several decades, Roy Cohn (1927-86) was the man you needed to know if you wanted to get to know…
Famous for being famous – the scandalous life of the Countess of Castiglione
‘The whore of the Risorgimento’ or ‘the divine Countess’ – Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione was among the most extravagantly…
Adventures of the Time Traveler’s daughter: Life Out of Order, by Audrey Niffenegger, reviewed
There is only one problem with this beautiful, elegiac novel, a glorious hodgepodge mash-up of time travelling and apocalyptic eco-fiction:…
They don’t make men like Erroll Prior-Palmer any more
Erroll Prior-Palmer had one decision to make on D-Day. It wasn’t as momentous as Eisenhower’s to launch the invasion, having…
The mystery of Easter Island’s still undeciphered script
When British and Ottoman forces defeated the remnants of Napoleon’s army in Egypt, General Menou, the Frenchman in charge of…