Angus Taylor calls the PM an ‘arrogant pr–k’
The Leader of the Opposition, Angus Taylor, has dished out a bit of much-needed character. Angus Taylor quietly interjected ‘arrogant prick’…
Alex Antic doesn’t like Paris either
Calling the Paris Agreement ‘just a piece of paper’ is a mistake that will haunt the Coalition, possibly all the…
Angus Taylor did the right thing defending Jacinta Price
Why is the media having a fit over Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s podcast interview? I don’t know about you, but…
Bitcoin will be the death of Chalmers
By framing the Budget around intergenerational fairness, or whatever weak excuse the Treasurer gave for raiding private equity, it seems…
Bringing back the disillusioned
A good friend, whose views on the world are pretty close to my own, is used to being ignored in…
How a feminised public square lost the plot on sex
I have often heard gender ideology described as a new kind of misogyny – and in its material impact, it…
The Pahlavi Crown
The Pahlavi Crown, created for the coronation of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1926, was intentionally designed to reflect the grandeur…
Time to end the d–khead slur?
Fanny. In West Central Scotland – where my formative grasp of English was forged – we used to playfully dub…
The Budget could trigger a mass sale of Australian business
If the Federal Budget’s proposed capital reforms pass in anything like their current form, Australia may be about to witness…
We are on a ship of fools
I was listening to a Sky News Australia interview following the shocking budget dropped by Jim Chalmers and his Labor…
What if there were consequences?
It is my view that the Labor Party did not accidentally mislead Australians on electricity prices. Labor promised power bills…
What does revolution look like in the 21st Century?
Last weekend, while Australians were still coming to terms with a federal budget containing policies voters were repeatedly assured would…
Here come the economy-crushing climate measures
Last week, the 193-member UN General Assembly backed economy-crushing climate measures that seek to replace hydrocarbons with the fairy dust…
The deadly debate they’ll publish – and the life-saving one they won’t
When South Australian MLC Sarah Game introduced legislation seeking to place limits on late-term abortion in South Australia, the public…
Treat with suspicion
We live in genuinely interesting times when political movements such as One Nation, the Australian Greens, and left-leaning Independents align…
The five heresies
In March 2026, in a town on the Yorke Peninsula two hours’ drive heading northwest of Adelaide, the Liberal Party…
Turnbull’s endorsement should worry the Teals
The Teals should be afraid. Very afraid. Not of One Nation’s growing popularity, nor the swing toward economic conservatism in…
More than meets the grid
Artificial intelligence has commanded global attention in recent years, with trillions flowing into a new, turbocharged digital era. Tech giants…
An Open Letter to the Honourable Barnaby Joyce, MP
Dear Barnaby, The proposed budget changes have caused a great deal of anxiety amongst small business owners and your more…
Where is the empathy for victims of socialism and communism?
April 30 marked 51 years since the end of the Vietnam War. In Australia, on this anniversary, a group of…
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…
Lies and deception
When I was growing up, a clear distinction was always made between right and wrong. It wasn’t as if my…
If only Labor took Enoch Powell’s advice
‘You don’t tax a loss. You only tax a profit.’ That was the great insight of Enoch Powell six decades…
Just repeal and undo
How many readers have noticed this huge failing in so many long-standing, establishment conservative political parties around the democratic world?…
Caliphate by other means
The return of Isis ‘brides’ alongside the anticipated trial of an alleged Isis-inspired Bondi terrorist has forced Australia to revisit…
Who is an Aborigine?
The definition of Aboriginal has shifted from race to association. The problem with this nicety is that the essence of…
The fool on the Vatican Hill
St Peter’s Basilica is located near the Vatican Hill (in Latin Mons Vaticanus), across the River Tiber from the location…
JobKeeper – the disaster
Since the turn of the millennium, Australia has produced a long catalogue of poorly considered and badly designed public policies.…
Obituary for climate catastrophism – not the Coalition
The dramatic rise of One Nation, crystallised in the results of the South Australian election and the Farrer by-election, has…
Did ‘neoliberalism’ really wreck Britain?
Andy Burnham thinks Tony Blair is missing something, and he is being too polite to say it is a few…
Are Trump and Netanyahu heading for a showdown?
Depending on which day it is, the ongoing peace talks between the United States and Iran are either a few…
Restore, the Greens and the rise of Gen Z Jew hate
At first glance, the youth wings of Restore Britain and the Green party would appear to have little in common.…
Andy Burnham demands more state control
After being warned by Sir Tony Blair in a 5,600-word essay not to drag the country back to the 1970s,…
We desperately need welfare reform
For years, Britain’s welfare debate has revolved around one question: how can we prevent the spiralling numbers of people moving…
Henry Nowak and the evil of ‘anti-racism’
Henry Nowak was 18, and at the end of his first term at Southampton University, when he was murdered. Around 11:30…
A Blair revival is the only hope for Britain
Everyone else is thinking it, so I’m just going to say it: we need Tony Blair back in Downing Street.…
Why doctors like me strike
Doctors are currently facing a moral dilemma. Strike, and risk potential harm to patients, or continue, and face the personal…
The British Museum has let Jew hate win
Interviewed earlier this month at the Cannes film festival, Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes spoke of the ‘shameless orgy of anti-Semitism…
Which party leader really rules social media?
Much has been made of which politicians dominate social media. A sizeable following on platforms such as X, Facebook and…
AI Ozzy Osbourne is a terrible idea
If you were one of the millions of Ozzy Osbourne fans who mourned the death of the Black Sabbath frontman…
Will the Supreme Court allow a ‘creed’ to kill America?
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s tour to tout his new children’s book about the Declaration of Independence should have been…
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’…
Things can always get worse
Elegance and intrigue
Anyone who knows the Sixties can easily be reminded of the beauty and the authority of Sidney Poitier. The MTC…
Sex symbol or respected actor?
You don’t have to be any specific age to thrill to the Opera Australia production of La Traviata. It is…
A masterpiece of economy
There’s something very odd about the fuss that’s been made about David Szalay who won the Booker a few months…
The performance of her career
It’s odd, isn’t it, the uncanny relationship between success and achievement. Just the other night the Melbourne Theatre Company had…
Portrait of an addict: Keshed, by Stu Hennigan, reviewed
In the tradition of literary lowlifes and lushes as conceived by Charles Bukowski or Jean Rhys, Keshed is a story…
Reading between the lines: the power of the unsaid
This is the kind of book I wish I had the chance to sit down and discuss with the author.…
Caroline Aherne’s comedic genius is much missed
Who do we have on television now, or even on social media, who can unmask pomposity and self-obsession quite like…
How the 18th-century Panopticon inspired today’s giant distribution hubs
The future of work is increasingly on our minds. Now that AI is coming for our jobs, will we end…
Witty, lyrical and abstract: the art of Kurt Schwitters
Aged ten, Jennifer Potter moved to Ambleside in the Lake District and was soon aware that one of the giants…
A family affair: Love Lane, by Patrick Gale, reviewed
The title of Patrick Gale’s latest lyrical novel alludes both to its central theme of the hidden, winding paths of…
The vexed relationship of Winston Churchill and George V
It is ironic that although Winston Churchill revered the concept of monarchy – his wife Clementine joked that he was…
Why should it be shameful to study the Classics?
Mary Beard opens this book with a recollection of her first meaningful encounter with the ancient world. It was 1960,…