Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…
Pauline Hanson vs anti-capitalist students
There has been nation-wide scorn and fits of eye-rolling over a planned student ‘protest’ against Pauline Hanson. To quote our…
Victoria’s emergency reset
I’m not Daniel Andrews. I’m not Jacinta Allan. It’s surprising these declarations weren’t followed up with, I’m not Labor! For…
Has One Nation forced Tony Burke to get serious about migration?
One Nation is driving the conversation about mass migration. Now, they appear to have forced Labor’s hand. Okay, nudged their…
Undemocratic? Why shouldn’t Pauline Hanson shun the ABC…
Somewhere off camera, in the back of Pauline Hanson’s Victorian press conference, a sad little voice belonging to an MSM…
Before we say Amen to change
There is an old saying that tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. It is…
How times have changed for uranium exporters
The Whitlam government established the Fox Inquiry in 1975. Two reports were released in the following year. One recommended that…
A resurrection in bad faith
Alexandra Marshall is right to blink. ‘From oblivion to resurrection – wait, what?!’ is about the only honest response to…
If you think AI is a fait accompli…
There is a fashionable certainty in some circles that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will simply arrive, transform the economy, create untold…
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…
Has Holocaust memory lost its moral compass?
There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp…
Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…
Human society is different from other animal societies because of humanity’s most important idea: legitimate government. Before the beginnings of…
The word-bankers
Media followers learned that Scotland Yard had spent four months investigating a journalist. His offence was, it appears, emailing questions…
They knew. They published it. They mandated anyway…
On July 29, Anthony Fauci sat before a US Senate committee and refused to answer. Senator Rand Paul had released…
The A-Bombs were necessary, and the most merciful option
As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks in 1945 arrives, many commentators will argue they should never have been…
Where did the resourceful Aussie spirit go?
At our family house, inner-city Perth, in the old garage – it has a smell you would know. Cut timber.…
Chris Bowen is trying to lock Australia into a Net Zero future
On Wednesday, Energy Minister Chris Bowen used a National Press Club address to announce another subsidy scheme for renewable energy.…
The alibi of skill
Spain’s border failed in front of the cameras last week. Australia’s border never fails, which is exactly why our numbers…
Cheaper electricity?
I rode my motorbike to the National Press Club today to hear what Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen…
The hidden risks of low-deposit housing under Labor
The Albanese government’s housing policies have been sold as the great Australian dream made accessible. Five per cent deposit schemes,…
AI psychosis
We all know that the Silicon Valley tech bros are a little detached from reality, but the advent of AI…
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…
Premier Pete from central casting
Come on girls and boys, admit it – he’s a good looker. Tall, athletic, softly spoken; I’m talking about the…
My prediction? 18C will bite the dust
After more than thirty years of argument about the merits and validity of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act,…
In Canberra, consent not required
Among the most powerful ideas in the history of politics is that governments derive their powers from the consent of…
Is there a field the Libs didn’t abandon?
I attended a really excellent talk last week on the virtues of Western culture. In the audience there were a…
ICAC – an unnecessary disaster
To err is human, but to persist in error – actively undermining the constitutional order – is the hallmark of…
Luck of the Irish
I don’t know about you, but every time I look at my phone there’s another story about ‘passport power’. Usually…
How to succeed as a Covid expert
On 29 July, Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment one hundred and eleven times in three hours before a Senate…
Nobody paid for this article
How can Australians trust the energy debate when the government is helping to pay the journalists reporting on its own…
How to fix Britain’s broken libel laws
In 1895, Winston Churchill, as a young officer cadet at Sandhurst aged 21, was falsely accused of having committed an…
Labour is the real party of the privileged elite
There’s nothing the ruling Labour political class likes more than propagating the Oxbridge class myth that the Conservative party is…
Whatever happened to Mickey, Liverpool’s smoking chimpanzee?
We haven’t lived. Yes, we’ve enjoyed the finest entertainment that Liverpool has to offer in our lifetimes – the Beatles,…
Meeting Abdul El-Sayed at the Detroit farmers market
The farmers market in Detroit is an unlikely crucible. Certainly Abdul El-Sayed, the freshly (and narrowly) minted Democratic Senate candidate…
Inside Pete Hegseth’s church
The second-floor meeting room on Pennsylvania Avenue is unassuming, but it’s filling up fast when I walk in on Sunday…
It’s open season on Nicola Sturgeon for the SNP
There have been mutterings in SNP ranks about Nicola Sturgeon’s failure to notice her former husband, Peter Murrell’s, embezzlement of…
The people of Thetford deserve empathy
Over the last four nights, unrest has broken out in the small Norfolk town of Thetford over the housing of…
Will the NHS get serious about prescribing weight loss drugs?
‘The weight is over,’ read an advert on the side of a bus outside my hospital this morning. The first…
Why ticket barriers won’t stop fare dodging on trains
If there’s one thing more annoying than sitting on a plane next to someone who has paid half what you did…
The wonder of Jaan Kaplinski
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Estonia – a potential flashpoint, we’re told, for a future Russian invasion –…
‘Serial bully’ Bercow back in Labour
Keir Starmer might be gone but Labour is still counting the cost of his legacy. Party membership figures published this…
Gun massacres are becoming all too regular in Thailand
At least seven people have been killed in a mass shooting at a school in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok. Details…
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…
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a triumph
An exercise in murder
A friend said recently that the only two people he knew who had read Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers…
A gurgle of merriment
Chekhov is tricky. He’s not someone we think of as uproarious but the playwright himself used sometimes to complain that…
High Antipodean
The death of that fabled cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers – one of the greatest all-rounders who ever lived – is…
A Treasury on YouTube
It’s strange how much we take for granted the world we inherit, which is available to us on YouTube for…
Forty years on, the furore over Paul Simon’s Graceland seems almost quaint
‘The story of Graceland’s origins,’ writes Ashley Kahn in his deep dive into Paul Simon’s multi-million-selling album, ‘is the story…
Finding happiness in simple tactile pleasures
When I confess that this is the first self-help book I’ve read, I’m also confessing to a minor but pointed…
A house of secrets: Where Are the Kings, by Donal Ryan, reviewed
A typical adolescent, Jack Fristensky is consumed by uncertainty about who he is, his place in the world and, of…
Why we must forgive Immanuel Kant his misogyny and racism
If the only story you’ve heard about Immanuel Kant’s life is that it was so regular that the citizens of…
An exhilarating chase: The Runner, by Scarlett Thomas, reviewed
Billed as a literary thriller from one of the masters of the genre, Scarlett Thomas’s The Runner is a far…
What will the successful cities of the future look like?
Can architecture solve urban crises? Or should architects and planners concentrate on mitigating the consequences of wider events (climate change,…
The monumental failure that was Henry VIII
There can be virtually no aspect of Henry VIII’s life and reign, as Steven Veerapen puts it, that has not…
Looking for Katrin: Rory MacLean goes in search of his dead wife
One September, Rory MacLean’s wife, Katrin, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Seven months later she was dead. The couple had…