Councillors are happy, shame about the ratepayers
Lost in translation
Earlier this year, I was asked to speak at the Round Table Forum on ‘the hollowing out of democracy: managerial elites,…
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…
Britain needs a second amendment
The European continent, at least the Western part, lunges further into disarray every time you check the TV news. If…
Councillors are happy, shame about the ratepayers
Local government is the only institution where customers are unhappy, management is delighted, and the solution is to send a…
Albo is sleepwalking us into ‘Down and out in Paris and London’
In the late 1920s, George Orwell lived in poverty in Paris. His savings stolen, he worked as a dish pig…
The King’s umbrella
King Charles, who is also King of Australia, was drenched at Antigua’s independence celebrations on Sunday. He was seen throwing…
More than music
Some music entertains us. Some makes us think. And then there is music that reaches into our souls, awakens memories…
Victorian Labor – a ‘credibility-free’ zone
For good reason, Federal Labor MPs are keeping their distance from their toxic Victorian Labor counterparts as the November 28…
Donald Trump defied populism and the woke-right podcasters to do what was right
It has been amusing as well as entirely predictable to watch the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowing over the so-called Blue…
Australia’s most serious skills shortage
I’m generally sceptical when our leaders claim Australia needs to import more people because of skills shortages. But there is…
What can Australia learn from the US election?
The MAGA movement has hit a wall. The US mid-term elections held earlier this week were a wipeout for the…
State of origin
It’s a common complaint from voters that politicians don’t live in the real world, and it’s evident when you see…
A recession in all but name
Ministers blame the war, yet it left Australia with higher core inflation and interest rates than America, Britain, Canada, or…
Angry duck Trump or the West’s goose is cooked
The midterm elections in the US prove one thing: the majority of American voters are useful idiots. The final two…
Canberra needs an expiry date
‘Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.’ The line is routinely attributed to Mark Twain.…
Midterm mayhem
The midterm elections in USA have delivered a shellacking to the Republicans and their policies. This was not confined to…
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…
MIDTERM BLUE – NAMI CRASHES OVER DONALD TRUMP | Is this the end of the WEST as we know it? | S3 Ep 27
In this episode: Democrats rise as war in #Iran and mass migration turn the polls against #DonaldTrump #MAGA Republicans. #DavidJones…
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…
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.…
Did ‘lad culture’ really enable Russell Brand?
Following the conviction of Russell Brand – the jury found him guilty on one count of rape and three counts…
The grossness of Russell Brand
Russell Brand was sentenced in Southwark Crown Court yesterday to the sound of laughter and the smell of strawberry vapour.…
Why is Labour funnelling money to Bylines Networks?
A group closely linked to hard-left conspiracy theorists has been given more than a quarter of a million pounds of…
Cambridge must hold its nerve over James Orr
James Orr’s lectures in Cambridge have been disrupted again by students. On Friday, a mob of protesters shouted and banged…
The problem with adding ‘Black English’ to the census
On the table in the House of Commons today is a curious ten-minute rule motion introduced by Josh Babarinde, the…
Why Latino voters punished the Republicans
Latino voters played a decisive role in the 2026 midterm elections, sending an unequivocal message to leadership in both parties:…
Another busy day in the Channel
A whopping 900 illegal migrants crossed the Channel in just three days. Updated Home Office figures show Shabana Mahmood is…
How could the Scottish government forget Remembrance Sunday?
There was something missing from the Scottish government’s official X account on Remembrance Sunday: Remembrance Sunday. The account, which has…
Reform shake up their press team
It is not just Donald Trump’s White House which is getting a shake-up. After the Channel 4 sting in September…
Green activist brands war veterans ‘agents of imperial terror’
A Green party activist described war veterans as ‘agents of imperial terror’ less than an hour after the Last Post…
China is the real loser from the Jensen Huang affair
The pictures will be all over the internet. Social media will be buzzing with memes, the Netflix dramatisation is probably…
Watch: Marine Le Pen rails against multiculturalism
Marine Le Pen tore into Western ‘multiculturalism’ in a fiery interview with US programme 60 Minutes last night. Speaking to…
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…
The prison early release scheme is already a disaster
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…
The hypocrisy of Frank Capra’s populism
Frank Capra’s pictures about the ‘little man’ vs the system went over so big that he was the first Hollywood…
Haunted by the ghost of Sherlock Holmes
When Sherlock Holmes first stalked across the pages of London periodicals in 1887, journalists eagerly asked Arthur Conan Doyle ‘how…
Under deep cover: The Taper Man, by Nick Harkaway, reviewed
Writers who have famous authors for parents might view it as an inhibiting burden, but Nick Harkaway, the son of…
From bog moss to orchids – the thrilling history of plant evolution
On the night of 1 March 1943, RAF Bomber Command launched its heaviest raid of the war so far. More…
Animal magic: a choice of children’s books
Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle begins: ‘Toby was just one and a half millimetres tall, not exactly big for…
College scandals: Lords of Serendipity, by Randy Boyagoda, reviewed
Randy Boyagoda has buried the campus novel in its grave. The setting of Lords of Serendipity is not the ‘city…
Sylvester Stallone’s own rags-to-riches story
If you think that Rocky is the greatest movie ever made, and Sly Stallone the finest actor, you will love…