Time to restore Aussies’ original intention
Lost in translation
Earlier this year, I was asked to speak at the Round Table Forum on ‘the hollowing out of democracy: managerial elites,…
Behold, Western Australia’s march toward a Chinese-style surveillance state
Is anyone else concerned about the direction our once laid-back, freedom-loving nation is headed? Thanks to serious errors in government…
The end is nigh
Communists are marching on Paris. Weekend after weekend. Traipsing the wreckage of civilisation with them. Smashing. Stealing. Revelling in the…
Lord of the sock puppets
Anthony Albanese has joined the Unplug24 campaign, announcing on X: The movement is in honour of Mac Holdsworth who, to…
Australia’s most serious skills shortage
I’m generally sceptical when our leaders claim Australia needs to import more people because of skills shortages. But there is…
What can Australia learn from the US election?
The MAGA movement has hit a wall. The US mid-term elections held earlier this week were a wipeout for the…
State of origin
It’s a common complaint from voters that politicians don’t live in the real world, and it’s evident when you see…
A recession in all but name
Ministers blame the war, yet it left Australia with higher core inflation and interest rates than America, Britain, Canada, or…
Angry duck Trump or the West’s goose is cooked
The midterm elections in the US prove one thing: the majority of American voters are useful idiots. The final two…
Canberra needs an expiry date
‘Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.’ The line is routinely attributed to Mark Twain.…
Midterm mayhem
The midterm elections in USA have delivered a shellacking to the Republicans and their policies. This was not confined to…
Trump’s midterms wipeout just handed the West a brutal setback
Where to now for the battle to save the West? Not that Trump was ever the messiah, but his MAGA…
Should Parliament take back control of interest rates?
With the RBA delivering yet another interest rate rise this week and making life even more uncomfortable for those with…
The fountain of the little snouts
The Boboli Gardens surround the Pitti Palace in Florence, built in 1458 for banker Luca Pitti. It later became the…
Bring back Aussie expats, hit the brakes on mass migration
The federal government’s approach to attracting skilled workers from overseas should prioritise bringing home Australians living abroad rather than being…
Labor promised an easier life. Four years on, we are paying the price
In May 2022, Anthony Albanese stood before Labor supporters at his election campaign launch in Perth and promised Australians a…
Point of Law a modern-day Phar Lap for Albo’s Great Depression
Today’s Melbourne Cup had me in tears. It’s been a long day. I drive the truck tonight so I woke…
Why would the Palestinian Authority change?
Anyone wondering why Australia is confronting an antisemitism crisis should pay close attention to a revealing exchange between Senator James…
Australia has spent billions teaching kids to hate democracy
The McKinnon Index was released November 3, 2026. If you still had any faith left in the people running Australia’s…
Great Australian success stories
We are not a ‘precious stone set in the silver sea … this blessed plot, this Earth, this realm…’ We…
MIDTERM BLUE – NAMI CRASHES OVER DONALD TRUMP | Is this the end of the WEST as we know it? | S3 Ep 27
In this episode: Democrats rise as war in #Iran and mass migration turn the polls against #DonaldTrump #MAGA Republicans. #DavidJones…
OH NO, NOT BLUEY! – Labor has started a war against speech and satire | S3 Ep 26
In this episode: Is BLUEY ground zero for the war against satire? Victoria – the reddest state – is about…
TURN THE POLITICAL TEMPERATURE DOWN… WHO TURNED IT UP?! – Labor’s outrageous hypocrisy | S3 Ep 25
In this episode: Macron’s ‘soft touch’ on far-left riot agitators. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni vows swift justice against looters. Labor’s inter-generational…
Yobbos of the manosphere
Yet again, Australians have been made fools of by a supposedly independent commission that we never elected, that we pay…
Oink! Oink!
Picture the scene. Jack is having a can of Balter beer; Jill is having an Aperol spritz. They are sitting…
Primed for Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a ‘single source of truth’ formerly in possession of a left-wing Kiwi prime…
Irate rise that stopped the nation
On this year’s Melbourne Cup Day, it wasn’t the race, but the rate rise that stopped the nation. It was…
Live not by lies
On 12 February 1974, eight Soviet government officials arrested Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his Moscow apartment. By evening, he had been…
France is on fire. And that’s just its economy
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leading figure of the far-left France Unbowed party, is polling well enough in his fourth presidential bid…
Albo’s road to serfdom
Last week in London’s West End I saw The Standard of Living, James Graham’s play about the life of John…
Time to restore Aussies’ original intention
Australians are right. Regular polling confirms a consistent majority believe the country is ‘on the wrong track’. At most, 30…
Stuffed
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to Louis XIV, is said to have described the art of taxation as plucking the goose…
Pope Leo the Apostate?
Writing in the Telegraph on the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new Pope Leo XIV, Tim Stanley had…
Hot air con
It would appear that the federal Labor government has been taking lessons from its favourite bureaucrats and serving up questionable…
Jimbo is toast
Jimbo is toast: it’s the scientific consensus. His term as Treasurer of this country must end as soon as possible.…
We need to talk about porn
Regulations banning choking or incest in porn came into force on Friday, and the left are divided. One side seems to…
Chris Whitty should spend more time at the pub
In the eyes of the NHS, much of ordinary British life constitutes a health risk. Its website hosts more than…
What if the internet stopped working?
The news of sustained, AI-enabled cybersecurity events pummelling the internet until the whole thing finally clears out like an abandoned…
Nurses do not need degrees
When I was newly qualified, hospitals were as desperate to fill sudden gaps in their rotas as they still are…
Germany’s mainstream parties are on the brink of oblivion
The old Federal Republic of Germany is dead. The two parties that ran the country, founded in 1949, are bleeding…
How Denmark turned against this horrifying reality show
Posterity has graced Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show. Its tale of a man who since birth has unwittingly been held…
Welcome to Clockwork Orange France
At the first sign of serious French rioting, observers typically reach for the French handbook of past revolutions – a…
Why LIV died
It is easy to argue that the collapse of Saudi Arabia’s golf league, LIV, is a victory for sporting integrity…
Europe’s right turn is inevitable
The French Revolution remade not only France but Europe, some 230-odd years ago. Even Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo was…
How Strictly Come Dancing came unstuck
What did the BBC think would happen if its all-conquering Strictly Come Dancing show recruited ‘stars’ no one had heard…
Proportional Representation is bad for Jews and bad for Britain
If the Holy Land is where the highest of all idealism goes to die, please let this be the case…
‘Get on board or get out’: Joy Morrissey on Kemi Badenoch’s new Tories
‘Get on board or get out.’ That, says Joy Morrissey, captures Kemi Badenoch’s attitude to the Conservative party: a categorical…
New Zealand election musings
By the time you read this, the New Zealand election will be about a week away. Now I’d like to…
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…
The prison early release scheme is already a disaster
A patina of majesty
Patrick Stewart, the man who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and then went on to…
An urge to take over the play
It’s astonishing what awaits the culture vulture. A lot of people know the riches on offer when they see the…
The beauty of the ruthless truth
There are times when the screen, big or small, looks like a gift of the gods. In the last week…
Conflicting colours and tones of tragedy
Any fan of Gerald Murnane would love to see him win the Nobel Prize for Literature. And if it’s never…
Saved by the Yanks
A startling new book thanks the United States for saving Australia from invasion in the second world war. Dr Tom…
The hypocrisy of Frank Capra’s populism
Frank Capra’s pictures about the ‘little man’ vs the system went over so big that he was the first Hollywood…
Haunted by the ghost of Sherlock Holmes
When Sherlock Holmes first stalked across the pages of London periodicals in 1887, journalists eagerly asked Arthur Conan Doyle ‘how…
Under deep cover: The Taper Man, by Nick Harkaway, reviewed
Writers who have famous authors for parents might view it as an inhibiting burden, but Nick Harkaway, the son of…
From bog moss to orchids – the thrilling history of plant evolution
On the night of 1 March 1943, RAF Bomber Command launched its heaviest raid of the war so far. More…
Animal magic: a choice of children’s books
Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle begins: ‘Toby was just one and a half millimetres tall, not exactly big for…
College scandals: Lords of Serendipity, by Randy Boyagoda, reviewed
Randy Boyagoda has buried the campus novel in its grave. The setting of Lords of Serendipity is not the ‘city…
Sylvester Stallone’s own rags-to-riches story
If you think that Rocky is the greatest movie ever made, and Sly Stallone the finest actor, you will love…