We must defend patriotism, or end up like France
Penny Wong vs Ralph Babet
United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet has a knack for getting under Labor’s skin and this week, he succeeded in…
The conservatives are coming
There have been some seriously deranged things written about CPAC by left-wing publications. Conservative leaders spoke on stage in front…
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…
The warning of history from the Iranian nation to Europe
History has repeatedly shown that extremist ideologies, even when they appear to be in conflict with one another, may converge…
We must defend patriotism, or end up like France
The grubs of the left love to mock patriotism, which just means love of country, and nationalism, which they dismiss…
The cost of opportunity
Across Australia, families are making increasingly difficult financial decisions as the cost of everyday living continues to place pressure on…
It couldn’t happen here, until it does
France is like a bellwether for liberty. When it goes belly-up, the Anglo liberal democracies thank God for the Westminster…
The missing middle ground of Australian politics
Chris Uhlmann wrote a column in The Australian this week that ought to be required reading in every Year 7…
French flames have exposed the West’s darkest rot
France’s rioters have inadvertently performed one public service: they have illuminated the darkness Western institutions have spent decades refusing to…
How Suez crisis crashed the Hungarian Revolution
I was 11 and I’d never seen let alone eaten a banana. I remember my first one, sitting in a…
Aborting principles
It was a massive mistake. A massive, massive mistake. The Liberal Party of Victoria knew that the mother of all…
The ‘almost’ answers of our eternal political class
Have you ever tried asking a politician for a direct answer? How many times do you write to their office…
The invisible dragon beyond the castle walls
The greatest threat to our freedom may not be Artificial Intelligence (AI) but the political institutions determined to control what…
The tiger in Antalya
In March 1915, Winston Churchill was convinced the Turks were running low on ammunition. They were not. As First Lord…
Immersive French dining comes to Melbourne
Immersive dining might not sound like your thing. Falling into a tank at the aquarium and eating seafood from a…
France is burning again. Australia should take notice.
France has long embraced subversion. Its revolutionaries, rebellious students and intellectual provocateurs occupy a cherished place in the national imagination.…
CPAC failed to answer who will lead the Right to the next election
How does a divided centre right avoid the horror of handing Labor a third term to continue wrecking everything? That…
The pathetification of Australia
Britain arrests about 12,000 people a year for what they post online. That is roughly 30 a day, mostly under…
When does a police force become an army?
There are moments when a single sentence exposes the assumptions of an entire policy. On September 7, 2026, Israeli Defence…
CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISM BURNS FRENCH CULTURE – and Australia’s descent into censorship | S3 Ep 24
In this episode: Far-left riots bring France to its knees while President Macron attends #CelineDion concert. Australia’s Royal Commission into…
THE GREEN GROCERS OF THE APOCALYPSE – communism is back in fashion | S3 Ep 23
In this episode: The ‘Green’ Grocers of the apocalypse bringing communism via your weekly shop. Victoria collapsing underfoot – but…
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…
Left-wing violence
In a recent speech, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned about the deadly danger of left-wing activism, claiming that…
The left’s fraudulent language
Many years ago, I was on an appointments committee to select between two candidates for a lecturing position in the…
Voters should have the right to remain silent
A man picked up by police on suspicion of robbing a petrol station is entitled to say nothing. Not a…
Let the Brethren hand out
Australia is talking about religious freedom again. Allegra Spender wants to restrict the exemptions under which religious schools make decisions…
Praising and censuring
Let’s hand out some bouquets and brickbats this week. Start with the praise. Angus Taylor and the Libs have nailed…
One Nation must de-woke Victoria, because the Libs won’t
Labor in Victoria is rotten at two levels – economic and cultural. If the Liberal leader, Jess Wilson, and the…
Australian notes
I sometimes wonder if Greg Sheridan reads his own columns. In last Saturday’s Australian he has penned a jeremiad which…
The lost decade they made for us
Australia used to be good at getting richer. In the ten years to 2012, real national income per head grew…
Why is the Albanese government so vindictive?
Governments of the doctrinaire far left, such as the Albanese government, share certain defining instincts which are truly appalling. These…
Albanese fans the flames
Brendan Nugent describes himself on X as a ‘plant person’ who believes ‘The world should be run by dogs and…
Conservative leadership
Sorry, Josh, you had your go. And you blew it. Politics is both a brutal and an unforgiving game. As…
If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists
Nobel Prize-winning economist, Friederich Hayek, argued the price system and market competition are the only effective ways to organise a…
Deproscribe Palestine Action, and who next?
There is a direct action group in this country which the government fears so much that its very existence has…
The irony of the Palestinian poppy
‘Israel has a history of appropriating Palestinian culture,’ says the website palestinepoppy.com. This is where you can purchase your Palestinian poppy…
What I saw in the French riots
It’s the third week of the student-led protests in Lyon, and the second that my university has been blockaded “in…
Watch: Tory peers demand answers on Powell’s Palestine loving wife
The Jonathan Powell–Palestine Action debacle continued to cause the government painstaking awkwardness today – this time in the House of…
The ‘Coalition of the Willing’ is not the way to support Ukraine
Andy Burnham has relatively little in common with Sir Keir Starmer, which is in large part why the Labour party…
How close did Britain come to a blackout in June?
Just how close did Britain’s electricity grid come to collapse on 23 June? Allegations began circulating soon after that date…
Who will condemn Saudi Arabia’s Islamic barbarism?
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia executed a Bangladeshi man and woman over an “indecent act” inside a mosque in Mecca. While the Saudi…
Is a robot running the Fed?
We recently learned that Donald Trump has been taking guidance from Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot best known for enabling nude…
Are the French riots just the beginning?
For a moment, the heart of Paris slipped beyond all state control. Standing on the Boulevard de Sebastopol – a…
Australian politics is becoming increasingly toxic
Wangaratta is a busy regional town in northern Victoria. It’s a place to stop and take a break on the…
Why did ITV’s hit job on Reform flop so badly?
ITV clearly hoped their latest documentary would be a shocking exposé of Reform. Their year-long investigation involved an undercover reporter…
Jonathan Powell’s wife backed Starmer being tried at the Hague
Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, has had a busy 24 hours. The Spectator revealed yesterday that she…
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…
Why are people surprised when animals defend themselves?
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…
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.…
Instruments of war
Drum Major Henry Barnes Jackson was 40 years old, had served in the Great War in the British Army, and…
Priceless
The Bee Gees were a popular trio of singers in the 1960s and 1970s, so named because their lives were…
Homage to the two drama kings who ruled British television for decades
If I were to say to you that one of these books contains an entire chapter on how to get…
A matter of life and death: Afternoon Hours of a Hermit, by Patrick Cottrell, reviewed
Patrick Cottrell’s first novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (2017), had a Korean/American returning to her Milwaukee adoptive parents’ home…
Where have all the children gone? A demographic winter sweeps the world
A gorgeous blonde crosses the threshold of a softly furnished Parisian hotel room, hand in hand with a man. It…
The dark finale of the second world war
When presented with yet another second world war doorstopper by Max Hastings, a reader should be forgiven for wondering what…
Rifts and reconciliations: Adam and Eve, by Jeffrey Archer, reviewed
The old master of the airport bookstall novel has published for the last time. His fans will be delighted with…
An examination of current trade policies leaves us a bit short-changed
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes described the age of economic progress which ended abruptly in…