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…
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…
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…
Student protesters resent getting what they demanded
Mass student and Gen Z-led protests over school conditions, housing costs, education funding, and the cost of living have swept…
The Chalmers Curve
Economics has the Phillips Curve, the Laffer Curve, and Okun’s Law. All three of which are currently relevant to our…
Who left whom?
In May 2025, the Liberal Party won 43 per cent of the primary vote in Farrer, the New South Wales…
Too many microphones, not enough minds
Australians of my generation were politically spoiled, though it didn’t feel like it at the time. We grew up with…
Feminism and the disastrous decade of dating
Young women have never had more freedom, more education or more money. So why are so many of them so…
The winged figure of Cyrus the Great at Sydney Olympic Park
Today, I would like to write about the winged figure at Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, which is associated with Cyrus…
You were only supposed to blow the doors off!
Every good heist film needs a villain who is not the crew. In Bank Job, published this week to coincide…
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…
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…
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.…
Liverpool Council’s taxpayer-funded ‘racial trauma’ staff counselling
Labour-run Liverpool City Council is drawing up plans for a taxpayer-funded counselling service for staff who feel affected by ‘microaggressions’…
Joshua Wong’s imprisonment shows China is running scared
The ten year sentence imposed on Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong today illustrates both the brutality and the insecurity…
Parliament needs HR
Is Tony Vaughan a bully or not? If you’d listened to the Labour MP for Folkestone and Hythe’s personal statement…
What the US midterms mean for Britain
The Democrats have delivered a historic rebuke to Donald Trump. But a repudiation is not an eviction. For Britain, the…
Louise Haigh was just as bad as you’d expect at DPMQs
Maybe it’s being heavily pregnant but certain phrases just immediately elicit a deep emotional reaction in me these days. One…
Will midterm losses spur Trump on to help Israel?
As Americans went to the polls yesterday, Donald Trump joked about moving to Israel. ‘My approval rating in Israel is…
Abdul El-Sayed and the dawn of American sectarianism
Donald Trump’s Republicans have suffered a monumental defeat. Deep-red states such as Texas and South Carolina sent Democrats to the…
How the Democrats can keep Texas blue
Everything is bigger in Texas, and so it makes sense that the Democrats’ midterm blue tsunami reached its height in…
Labour’s Poundland nationalisation gaffe
Another day, another Labour plot to nationalise a business. This time, the not-so lucky company in question is… beleaguered Poundland.…
The midterms have been brutal for Israel
A week after inconclusive election results that saw neither side win a large enough majority to form a government, Israel…
Is this the end of the American Experiment?
So how did I do? Pretty poorly. Yesterday, I predicted that the GOP would hold the Senate and maybe pick…
Louise Haigh shuns detail in first PMQs outing
Louise Haigh’s first outing as Andy Burnham’s stand-in at Prime Minister’s Questions today was assured and pretty successful. She looked…
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…
Revolting France: The riots are driving the country’s politics to its extremes
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…
In praise of Piedmontese wines
Authors hate it when reviewers refer to their book as a ‘weighty tome’ as it implies that the contents are…
One for the Prefab Sprout diehards
‘One for the heads’ is the phrase that traditionally covers the more outré elements of a band’s career: the outtakes,…
Singsong vapidity: The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse, by Heather Morris, reviewed
The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse is from Heather Morris, whose 2012 novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz began the vogue for…
How can we fool ourselves that chatbots feel anything for us?
Imagine that a good friend of yours has fallen for a psychopath, a man or woman who seems superficially charming…
Why a frothy Jane Austen adaptation is always imminent
There has never been a good screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel. There have been plenty of films with…
The felled tree that devastated Britain
It was just a tree, a beautiful tree, in a strikingly beautiful place. Yet when the two friends Daniel Graham…
Return of the war-weary: Gjak, by Dimosthenis Papamarkos, reviewed
The Second Greco-Turkish War (1919-22) ended catastrophically for Greece and led to a massive population exchange: аt least 1.2 million…