Henry Kissinger saved us from a much worse world
Has newsweek become newspeak?
People may suspect they are living in an Orwellian media fever-dream when articles like this appear in Newsweek. Over the…
The conceit of the elites
Europe is in the midst of a series of conflagrations. Last Thursday, Dublin was set ablaze in response to a stabbing attack allegedly…
Peak stupid? NSW Liberals back Greens and Labor on Net Zero target
Two big events occurred in Macquarie Street on Thursday morning. In Parliament, the Liberals joined the Greens in the Lower…
Winston’s moment
The Shaky Isles have a new government. At last. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day in Hawke’s…
Time for Albo to cut Bowen loose
It may be somewhat fortunate for Chris Bowen that approval polls for the performance of the Climate and Energy Minister…
Blueberry Fields Forever
‘Let me take you down, ’cause I’m going to blueberry fields. Nothing is real, and there is nothing to get…
Is Treasurer Chalmers the Pontius Pilate of interest rates?
Australian Prime Ministers typically leave a single memory to mark their reign. Morrison had his lump of coal. Rudd loved…
Transylvanian gold
Why is everyone arguing about the validity of Roman gold found by a peasant in Transylvania? More to the point,…
Game of wolves
The Albanese government mantra regarding relations with China ‘we need to cooperate with China where we can, disagree where we…
Multiculturalism put to the test
‘Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world.’ Australian political leaders of all persuasions have often paraded this…
Pray for sensible socialists and compassionate capitalists, son
There it was again, in a report about what Minister Bowen is planning next – that dreaded phrase … ‘dramatic…
Mandate madness
The 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season was one of the worst in recorded history with fires burning across Australia for over…
Elite universities loathe us
The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne identifies its purpose as considering how Australia’s founding as a settler colony…
Saving capitalism
One of the best presentations at the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference held in London was given by Paul…
United Nations of hypocrites
Last week I wrote about the disappointing silence from the Islamic and feminist organisations about the brutal sexual violence inflicted…
Picking judges matters
My family and I arrived in Australia in January of 2005. So I’ve been here nearly two decades now. As…
Australia – a democracy in name only
Once upon a time, Australia was a united nation. Its people respected Australia Day, Anzac Day and Christmas Day. They…
Woke anti-Semites
The murder of more than 1,200 people by Hamas terrorists on 7 October was a crime against humanity, but many…
EV speed bump
The electric car market’s apparently smoothly accelerating journey along the global sales highway has hit a speed bump. The industry…
Hamas & friends
Israel’s war against Hamas has reached a crossroads. If the goal is to destroy Hamas, the role of Qatar can…
Ron DeSantis just isn’t presidential material
Sans Trump, the Republican presidential debates of 2023 have mostly been piddling contests in a shallow pool. We’ve seen nasty…
Hamas has made a mockery of the ceasefire deal
Early this morning, Hamas fired the first shot that signalled the end of its ceasefire deal with Israel, roughly an…
The EU is in denial about stopping the boats
The Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling is the latest EU initiative to address the continent’s migrant crisis. Unveiled in…
Does a political solution to the Israel-Gaza conflict exist?
Is there a political solution to the Gaza conflict? Earlier this morning, the seven-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas broke…
Kiwi life
Given the UK’s Rishi Sunak sacking Suella Braverman for saying what many others would feel – that the police were…
New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy
New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…
The worst Noel? Why Kiwis are turning against wealthy foreigners
Wealthy foreigners are flocking to New Zealand, but not all Kiwis are happy about their arrival: not least locals who…
Poetic justice in New Zealand
October 14 was a good day to be a conservative on either side of the Tasman. On the same day…
The point of perdition
What will history make of the superior crime stories we seem to be churning out? The late Peter Corris’ Cliff…
The mad cult of Doctor Who
When Doctor Who returned to wild acclaim in 2005, after 16 years off-air and about a generation of being regarded…
Ed Sheeran’s time is up
Who’s the worst pop star of modern times? Some might say that Adele sounds like a moose with PMT –…
Eye-batting nonchalance
What is it about the Egyptians that bewitches us? Ramses and the Gold of the Pharoahs opened at the Australian…
A choice of this year’s gift books
Obviously, the best and funniest gift book out this Christmas is my own Still a Bit of Snap in the…
Britney Spears is back with a vengeance
I am working on a play about Marilyn Monroe at the moment and, reading Britney Spears’s book, the similarities of…
What would life on Mars actually look like?
Just as extreme altitudes have notable effects on the human body and mind, so too does extreme wealth seem to…
A history of the onion leaves one crying for more
I am a big fan of Mark Kurlansky. His Cod is one of a handful of books I recommend to…
How sport helped shape the British character
Faith in state planning was central to Harold Wilson’s pledge to modernise Britain. It was his rhetorical vision of a…
When atonal music was original and exciting
In the 1960s and 1970s, British music was transfixed by the Manchester School. Led by the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander…
The British Empire’s latest crime – to have ended the Enlightenment
What is the Enlightenment, and when did it come to an end? Neither are easy questions to answer. The Enlightenment,…
The horrors of the ‘Upskirt Decade’
The subject that Sarah Ditum addresses in Toxic is why the early part of this century was ‘such a monstrous…