The UK is on fire. Australia could be next
The United Kingdom is on fire with riots breaking out across the country, and it brings me no joy to…
When Hanlon’s razor fails
Last month Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointed Jewish lawyer and businesswoman Jillian Segal as Australia’s first antisemitism special envoy. While…
Terror threat on the rise
Prime Minister Albanese and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess raised the terror threat level from possible to probable. They urged the…
Perrottet’s Covid apology is not good enough
Former New South Wales Premier, Dominic Perrottet, came out yesterday and declared that Covid vaccine mandates enforced by his government…
Do women vote for women, and do Cat Ladies vote for Mamalas?
The US Democrats have made a high-stakes bet on securing the female vote by choosing Kamala Harris as their candidate.…
Russia’s national disease can be cured by defeat
As Russia’s barbarism toward Ukrainians has deepened over the last two and half years, there has been much discussion of…
Breach of trust
At some stage in our lives, many of us are called on to accept the often thankless and onerous obligations…
Starmer presides over the collapse of neo-Marxism
Labour in the United Kingdom are presiding over the potential dissolution of civil peace. Instead of deescalating tensions, Keir Starmer…
The end of race politics
Review: Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, Thesis (Penguin Random House), 2024 The topic…
Another climate myth busted
What I like to call ‘climate cult’ wind farms expose the myth that wind can replace hydrocarbon fuels for power…
Are Labor voters enjoying the boxing?
Dear Australia, If you continue to cast your votes for Labor, and will no doubt persist in doing so in…
After 30 days of Labour, I want the Conservatives back
One month in, and our new Labour government has already made a complete hash of it. The UK has descended…
Albanese’s dangerous scheme exposed
Constitution circumvented
Pathway to terror?
Immigration versus the raised terror alerts
Punch Judy
The Olympics’ low blow to boxing
Macron’s gift to Le Pen
Olympics opening ceremony fiasco again shows his shocking judgment
Assistant Minister for a Banana Republic
Albanese is destroying the Australian economy
How Covid broke our trust in the medical profession
On 9 July, President Joe Biden’s former Covid czar Ashish Jha conceded that vaccine mandates, which he had backed, ‘bred…
The cancerous CFMEU
Claims by senior Labor figures that allegations of CFMEU thuggery and intimidation were revelations to them were seriously undermined this…
B2 eyes the top job
Tony Burke moves onwards and upwards
Europe is worried that Britain’s riots might spread
The riots that have erupted across England in the last week have been splashed across Europe’s newspapers and broadcast on…
Are the riots about to get worse?
When will the violent disorder across England and Northern Ireland dissipate? That’s the question being asked in Westminster as ministers…
Scottish Tory leadership race: runners and riders
While contenders in the UK Tory leadership race ramp up their campaigns, north of the border the Scottish Conservative contest…
Britain’s rioters have acted like Bolsheviks
British riots are not a new phenomenon. They were regular occurrences throughout history and usually the spark that lit the…
Kiwi life
New Zealand in crisis Given the destruction the previous Labour government inflicted on this country, and the damage caused by…
New Zealand’s carbon sequestration problem
Ongoing concern about climate change has fuelled debate about the part carbon sequestration might play in reducing New Zealand’s net…
Why New Zealand is cracking down on immigration
The government of New Zealand this week tightened the country’s working visa rules in order to stem historically high numbers…
Why is New Zealand’s deputy PM rowing with Chumbawamba?
In their musical heyday, the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba enjoyed a reputation for having an irreverent attitude towards those…
How the myth of Paris liberating itself was born
Deranged and fantastic horrors
For a century King Lear has been thought of as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies and the title role as…
Rescued from the Comanches
Isn’t it extraordinary how the new-style, super-arty balletic circus has transformed the old child-delighting world of Heffalumps and daring young…
‘Damned spot’ of blood keeps appearing
People have always fiddled with Shakespeare. Nahum Tate did not give King Lear a happy ending because he was a…
A masterful magnificence
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? culminates the great stretch of American drama that runs from Tennessee Williams’ The…
How the myth of Paris liberating itself was born
The liberation of Paris in August 1944, two months after D-Day, was one of the most highly publicised victories of…
Malice and intrigue in the shadow of Tom Tower
‘The House’ in the title of Richard Davenport-Hines’s engaging new book is Christ Church, by any reckoning the grandest of…
Portrait of the artist and mother
On reaching the end of Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation, I felt somewhat overwhelmed. At 272 pages, the book isn’t…
A miracle beckons: Phantom Limb, by Chris Kohler, reviewed
In 2021, a financial newspaper estimated the American televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s wealth to be in the region of $750 million.…
After the Flood: There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak, reviewed
A drop of water falls on the head of Ashur-banal, the erudite but merciless king of Assyria, as he walks…
Love it or loathe it – the umami flavour of anchovy
We are blessed to be living in a golden age of anchovies. They’re everywhere – lacing salads, festooning pizzas, draped…
A haunting theme: The Echoes, by Evie Wyld, reviewed
Evie Wyld’s powerful fourth novel opens from the perspective of Max, a ghost who haunts the south London flat where…
Absinthe and the casual fling: Ex-Wife, by Ursula Parrott, reviewed
‘Ex-wives like us illustrate how this freedom for women turned out to be God’s greatest gift to men,’ quips Patricia,…