Can Pauline Hanson save us from the United Nations?
The conservatives are coming
There have been some seriously deranged things written about CPAC by left-wing publications. Conservative leaders spoke on stage in front…
AI is a psychopath
Did anyone else catch that fleeting headline in the Daily Mail, claiming: Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make biological weapons…
Wake up, Bowen. Nap time is over!
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen doesn’t seem to be enjoying is multi-million-dollar pre-COP soirée. Aside from criticism that…
Shoebridge’s obsession with turtle politics
You have to admire the commitment to delusion. Newly appointed Greens Leader, David Shoebridge, fronted the cameras and declared his…
Introducing the new Queensland Premier … me!
In 1976 I had the growing desire to start my own company, to walk into a room where everyone paid…
Can Pauline Hanson save us from the United Nations?
The High Court’s ruling on a major coal mine expansion in NSW, on the basis of Scope 3 emissions, is…
When imitation becomes enough
What is beauty and what is objective truth? Modern society has neglected to ask this fundamental question, trading beauty and…
Is the Digital Duty of Care a censorship regime?
The Labor government has proposed a Digital Duty of Care, spruiking it as a way to keep children safe and…
Critical Theory in academia: neither critical nor theory
In the hallways of modern universities, certain ideas have achieved near-hegemonic status. Among them, Critical Theory stands as perhaps the…
It’s time to take the UK out of Aukus
Back in January, Spartacus argued that Australia should work with the US to drop the UK from Aukus and bring…
Angus Taylor: CPAC speech
As published on Liberal.org.au Good morning CPAC. It’s great to be with you. When the Liberal Party was last in…
Labor’s credit card surcharge fiasco hits mums and dads
The surcharge ban was sold as ‘money back every time you tap’. A month in, it has been reported that…
Britain cannot enforce half of Oslo
On September 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an import ban on goods from Israeli communities beyond the 1967…
Fizzer in Fiji takes the wind out of Bowen’s turbines
Four years of promises, modelling, and National Press Club performances have run into higher electricity bills, angry people who live…
One day on the road to Moora
Have you read Xavier Herbert’s masterpiece, Poor Fellow my Country? You should, it’s about life in the Northern Territory between…
Every radical has an origin story
Tucker Carlson recently made the mistake of debating Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg on war and history. It didn’t go well. Rees-Mogg…
Where is Australia’s Gettysburg address?
Once upon a time, there was Camelot, when the world was ruled by US President John F. Kennedy and his…
Albanese is a global citizen, but whose world is it?
Perhaps Latika Bourke asked the question many Australians will be thinking… While Anthony Albanese was preparing to receive the Atlantic…
Ted Lasso was wrong about kindness
Think of the last meeting where somebody floated a dud idea and the whole room knew it. Did anyone say…
Boys are no longer educated, they are emasculated
Boys are struggling in literacy, completion, and behaviour. It is no secret. In March 2026 Education Minister Jason Clare opened…
THE GREEN GROCERS OF THE APOCALYPSE – communism is back in fashion | S3 Ep 23
In this episode: The ‘Green’ Grocers of the apocalypse bringing communism via your weekly shop. Victoria collapsing underfoot – but…
ALBO, THE COFFEE WHISPERER – Labor might be the worst economic managers of all time | S3 Ep 22
In this episode… Albo’s ‘not-so-cheap’ coffee. ☕️ Is Jim Chalmers a good Treasurer? Is the 5% house deposit scheme causing…
GLOBALIST IN CHIEF – Albanese accepts his award & Trump cancels ‘Fake News’ Media | S3 Ep 21
This week… Javier Milei ‘rips the United Nations to shreds’. Albanese’s good little globalist award. Digital Duty of Censorship… I…
Third anniversary, October 7
The release of the Coalition’s immigration policy coincided with the third anniversary this week of the horrific 7 October massacre,…
Albo’s out of control spending
Almost fifty years ago, in his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan said, ‘We don’t have inflation because the…
Cowardly corporate crony capitalists rule
Last week, I attended the annual conference of the H.R. Nicholls Society. The society is ‘dedicated to advocating for sensible…
Giggle v. Tickle v. Macbeth
Talking recently with an old acquaintance, now a barrister, I spoke of how disappointing it was that the High Court…
Go directly to jail!
Having addressed the position of the ever-shrivelling teals last week, I was well into drafting a piece turning to focus…
Business/Robbery, etc
There’s now a coal boom in Asia that the ideology-driven, anti-coal Albanese Labor government doesn’t want to know about –…
En garde! China and AI
Early in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch finds himself facing the intimidating Harvey Logan, who has decided that…
Painted clay
‘The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation: that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.’ That’s…
Hamas: Triumph of the intellectuals
On 7 October 2023, the world experienced in a real-time livestream what the absence of a secure Jewish state meant…
Australia on a road to ruin
Australians’ pessimism about the future of the country is now probably at its highest level. Polling suggests an extraordinary two…
Return of the King
King Coal is back! This week the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission gave permission for two coalminers in the…
Brown study
I don’t know if Anthony Albanese actually learned anything from his recent sojourn at the United Nations, but I doubt…
Why aren’t all executions public?
There is a boring, snooty, self-righteous school of thought that the judicial killing of a human being is a grave…
Trump will regret it if he attacks the Houthis
Donald Trump has opened up the prospect of America being drawn into a wider Middle East conflict, effectively a second…
Sydney Sweeney and the joy of being Jewish
It doesn’t overstate the case to say that the past week has been particularly distressing for Britain’s Jewish community. From…
Burnham needs to realise the EU isn’t the club we left
Andy Burnham doesn’t only want a ‘reset’ of relations with the EU. The Prime Minister has hinted that he is…
Trump has found his midterms scapegoat
Donald Trump has called for President Zelensky to be removed from office. The US President is furious following a series…
Pilates is pseudoscience
Pilates has long been mocked as the regimen of middle-aged Manhattan neurotics. Samantha from Sex and the City was an…
Labour is destroying the trust of Britain’s military veterans
The British government is navigating rough waters with its current approach to the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill 2024. It is…
Why are a woman’s eggs worth $220,000?
Jade, 27, shows me the email she’s just received, offering to buy her eggs ‘to help an Asian couple build their dream family’. As a Harvard student who helps me with…
When did British architecture become so boring?
Nowadays, no one takes much interest in the Stirling Prize. But there was a time when the award, the winner…
Driving into London is a form of psychological torture
Whether or not you are a Kemi Badenoch supporter, her comment that people get into more trouble for driving slightly…
Why is livestreaming an execution so gross?
Livestreaming the execution of mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan is a moral outrage but no one can explain quite why.…
On mental health treatment, the middle ground is right
British healthcare moves in pendulum swings between one extreme and another, often without much material improvement for patients. Just look…
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…
The anti-Semitic alliance between Restore and the Greens
That sinister sense of comic patter
Harold Pinter is one of the great dramatists of the last hundred years, perhaps the only one who can hold…
From another world
It’s striking what we can experience if we look back at the images of the recent past, aided by YouTube.…
An elegance that is hair-raising
Sometimes cultural news is just bad news. Everyone was delighted at the thought that Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland was being turned…
A gorgeous evocation of the natural world
The world of artistic expression runs in a thousand ways. The Melbourne Symphony’s Spring Gala – paralleling the Opera’s Wagner…
A literary romp: Our Noble Selves, by Kate Atkinson, reviewed
It is hard to imagine a setting better suited to bureaucratic absurdity than the lead-up to the 1951 Festival of…
All the big hitters are here: scenes from the golden age of boxing
In 1891, in Thomas Edison’s makeshift film studio – a shack in West Orange, New Jersey – two men put…
Winning hearts and minds: propaganda of the Spanish Civil War
History, as the aphorism frequently attributed to Winston Churchill would have it, is written by the victors. This certainly holds…
A bullying monster: the infamous Roy Cohn, Donald Trump’s early mentor
For several decades, Roy Cohn (1927-86) was the man you needed to know if you wanted to get to know…
Famous for being famous – the scandalous life of the Countess of Castiglione
‘The whore of the Risorgimento’ or ‘the divine Countess’ – Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione was among the most extravagantly…
Adventures of the Time Traveler’s daughter: Life Out of Order, by Audrey Niffenegger, reviewed
There is only one problem with this beautiful, elegiac novel, a glorious hodgepodge mash-up of time travelling and apocalyptic eco-fiction:…
They don’t make men like Erroll Prior-Palmer any more
Erroll Prior-Palmer had one decision to make on D-Day. It wasn’t as momentous as Eisenhower’s to launch the invasion, having…
The mystery of Easter Island’s still undeciphered script
When British and Ottoman forces defeated the remnants of Napoleon’s army in Egypt, General Menou, the Frenchman in charge of…