Left-wing violence
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…
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…
Under socialism, tomorrow never comes
Change by stealth is an old socialist tactic, often accompanied by the promise that tomorrow will be better if people…
Temperature too high?
Anthony Albanese has discovered a favourite phrase: Australia needs to ‘turn down the temperature’. It sounds statesmanlike. Reassuring, even. There…
The warning of history from the Iranian nation to Europe
History has repeatedly shown that extremist ideologies, even when they appear to be in conflict with one another, may converge…
We must defend patriotism, or end up like France
The grubs of the left love to mock patriotism, which just means love of country, and nationalism, which they dismiss…
The cost of opportunity
Across Australia, families are making increasingly difficult financial decisions as the cost of everyday living continues to place pressure on…
It couldn’t happen here, until it does
France is like a bellwether for liberty. When it goes belly-up, the Anglo liberal democracies thank God for the Westminster…
The missing middle ground of Australian politics
Chris Uhlmann wrote a column in The Australian this week that ought to be required reading in every Year 7…
French flames have exposed the West’s darkest rot
France’s rioters have inadvertently performed one public service: they have illuminated the darkness Western institutions have spent decades refusing to…
How Suez crisis crashed the Hungarian Revolution
I was 11 and I’d never seen let alone eaten a banana. I remember my first one, sitting in a…
Aborting principles
It was a massive mistake. A massive, massive mistake. The Liberal Party of Victoria knew that the mother of all…
The ‘almost’ answers of our eternal political class
Have you ever tried asking a politician for a direct answer? How many times do you write to their office…
The invisible dragon beyond the castle walls
The greatest threat to our freedom may not be Artificial Intelligence (AI) but the political institutions determined to control what…
The tiger in Antalya
In March 1915, Winston Churchill was convinced the Turks were running low on ammunition. They were not. As First Lord…
Immersive French dining comes to Melbourne
Immersive dining might not sound like your thing. Falling into a tank at the aquarium and eating seafood from a…
France is burning again. Australia should take notice.
France has long embraced subversion. Its revolutionaries, rebellious students and intellectual provocateurs occupy a cherished place in the national imagination.…
CPAC failed to answer who will lead the Right to the next election
How does a divided centre right avoid the horror of handing Labor a third term to continue wrecking everything? That…
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…
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…
Left-wing violence
In a recent speech, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned about the deadly danger of left-wing activism, claiming that…
The left’s fraudulent language
Many years ago, I was on an appointments committee to select between two candidates for a lecturing position in the…
Voters should have the right to remain silent
A man picked up by police on suspicion of robbing a petrol station is entitled to say nothing. Not a…
Let the Brethren hand out
Australia is talking about religious freedom again. Allegra Spender wants to restrict the exemptions under which religious schools make decisions…
Praising and censuring
Let’s hand out some bouquets and brickbats this week. Start with the praise. Angus Taylor and the Libs have nailed…
One Nation must de-woke Victoria, because the Libs won’t
Labor in Victoria is rotten at two levels – economic and cultural. If the Liberal leader, Jess Wilson, and the…
Australian notes
I sometimes wonder if Greg Sheridan reads his own columns. In last Saturday’s Australian he has penned a jeremiad which…
The lost decade they made for us
Australia used to be good at getting richer. In the ten years to 2012, real national income per head grew…
Why is the Albanese government so vindictive?
Governments of the doctrinaire far left, such as the Albanese government, share certain defining instincts which are truly appalling. These…
Albanese fans the flames
Brendan Nugent describes himself on X as a ‘plant person’ who believes ‘The world should be run by dogs and…
Conservative leadership
Sorry, Josh, you had your go. And you blew it. Politics is both a brutal and an unforgiving game. As…
If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists
Nobel Prize-winning economist, Friederich Hayek, argued the price system and market competition are the only effective ways to organise a…
The New Statesman open letter is wrong about Palestine Action
Proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group was probably the most contentious action Yvette Cooper ever took as home secretary.…
What do Italy’s rioters want?
‘Facciamo come in Francia!’ shouted the masked and hooded rioters on Sunday in Milan and other major Italian cities, notably…
Labour isn’t going to stop the Boriswave
Labour aren’t going to stop the Boriswave settling. That’s the truth. As someone who, last November, praised the Home Secretary…
Lola-Fleur and the long tradition of radical babes
On Monday night, with the glass still being swept up from the latest événements, French viewers were offered a spectacle…
Is Abdul El-Sayed racist?
In his failed 2020 presidential campaign, “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg famously scored 0 percent with black voters in multiple polls. Abdul…
Badenoch and Burnham seemed to enjoy sparring at PMQs
Andy Burnham had a reasonably easy Prime Minister’s Questions today. He didn’t produce any embarrassingly quotable slogans about national security…
The humiliation of Miatta Fahnbulleh
Another week and another PMQs: Mr Burnham and Mrs Badenoch haven’t really had any major zingers yet, preferring a sort…
Is Vladimir Putin once again stringing Donald Trump along?
Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has been in St Petersburg today, meeting with Vladimir Putin to discuss American-led proposals…
Is AI a bubble?
The news is full of speculation that we are about to see a bursting of a “bubble” in AI. “Will…
Is this email hack an attempt to destroy the AfD?
Hundreds of thousands of private emails from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have been hacked and published online, exposing…
Vance’s delicate 2028 dance
JD. Vance is clearly trying to thread a needle as he prepares to run for the Republican presidential nomination next…
The SNP’s craven support for the Jackdaw gas field
SNP leader John Swinney finally agrees with Westminster on something. The Holyrood first minister has welcomed Downing Street’s decision 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…
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…
Why are people surprised when animals defend themselves?
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…
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.…
Instruments of war
Drum Major Henry Barnes Jackson was 40 years old, had served in the Great War in the British Army, and…
How Sweden has kept communism at bay
Stay-behind cells in the second world war and the Cold War are familiar to students of intelligence and military history.…
The end is nigh: Switzy, by Emma Cline, reviewed
Emma Cline’s first novel, The Girls (2016), sold more hardback copies than any other debut novel published in the UK…
Dark, dank and mysterious: the haunting strangeness of boglands
‘Bog’ is an unlovely word, and the expressions in the bog lexicon – ‘bogged down’, ‘bog standard’, ‘bog off’ –…
Alternative universes: Exit Party, by Emily St John Mandel, reviewed
The premise of this novel is weird and delightful. At a party in the year 2031, with the American civil…
‘There’s a 50-50 chance I’ll get bumped off’: an American scholar foresees his death
On a drizzly morning in January 1984, Malcolm Kerr, the president of the American University of Beirut (AUB), was walking…
The intellectual passions of J.R.R. Tolkien
It was December 1942 and J.R.R. Tolkien was having doubts about his new book, a sequel to The Hobbit published…
Homesick for Tennessee: The Newer World, by Sebastian Barry, reviewed
‘I am become a name,’ Alfred Tennyson has Ulysses declare in his 1833 poem, an epigraph that sets up Sebastian…