Free speech: America is warning, Labor isn’t listening
Defiling Asimov’s Laws
Laymen concerned by the encroachment of AI assume CEOs and world governments are designing the digital age loosely around the…
Silence of the Lambie
Remember when Jacqui Lambie fantasised about throwing Elon Musk in jail? I had forgotten until Damian Coory pointed it out…
Kevin Rudd might be … right(?!)
Carrying on the great political tradition of ‘never buggering off’, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is back – sort of…
The Chalmers diet
Sydney’s working class look hungry. By that I mean, they are getting noticeably thinner. My advice to the political class…
Free speech: America is warning, Labor isn’t listening
You would think that going against the United States – the most powerful country, with President Trump acting as the…
The tunnels NAZA refuses to enter
The Venice Film Festival has bestowed its Special Jury Prize upon NAZA, an 80-minute documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel…
Stop making martyrs
Cancelling people does not defeat their ideas. If anything, it amplifies their message and makes martyrs of the people spreading…
Wealth for toil, guilt for success
There is a world of difference between treating everybody equally and making everybody equal. The first limits the power of…
They’re not Menzies’ forgotten people, they’re One Nation’s fed-up people
Watching re-runs of Landline the other night, I saw a business backed by Gina Rinehart get to air without the…
Care-share or build-spend?
If you are 20, you will turn 65 in 2071. You have just started paying tax, or soon will. A…
Australia’s soft launch of authoritarianism
‘The freedom of speech may be taken away – and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to…
Inside the ‘Elysian’ world of the ABC
Over at Ultimo – the ABC’s ‘global’ headquarters – excitement is reaching fever pitch. The cause of the hullabaloo is…
Dressed to kill
Amorality of fashion has reached its height in the recent Met meltdown around John Galliano’s antisemitic antics and cancelled show.…
Albanese is talking to empty rooms
The picture from New York last week tells you most of what you need to know about Australian foreign policy.…
Gough Whitlam called
Everyone knows it. I know it. You know it. Households know it. Business knows it. The IMF and OECD know…
The Sydney Sweeney revelation
Well, knock me down with a feather. The advertising world has discovered that, wait for it, sex sells! It turns…
Germany at a crossroads
The recent German state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in the city state of Berlin give cause to consider the…
If Albanese is a ‘global citizen’, we should Section 44 him
There’s always one… Albo is Australia’s (global) village idiot. For proof of this, he received the Atlantic Council Global Citizen…
Parents are leaving. The law still wants one kind of school
Parents are not waiting for a white paper. They are leaving. Queensland’s figures are plain. Registered home education rose from…
In defence of disagreement
Charlie Kirk was one of the internet’s most divisive figures. Like many, I disagree with much of what he said.…
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…
SILENCE OF THE ROYALS – Spencer’s memoir and the death of the last Royal carriage maker | S3 Ep 20
This week with Professor David Flint. Does the ghost of Princess Diana still pose a threat to King Charles’ legacy?…
PLEASE EXPLAIN! Why politicians are getting salty over satirical cartoons… | S3 Ep 19
This week… Jacqui Lambie’s rant over One Nation’s Andrew Hastie ‘traitor’ cartoon. Who dragged Albanese’s mother into the political conversation…
Not OKKK
‘Is it heartening for you to see someone like anti-immigration Pauline doing well in Australia?’ asked the Channel Nine journalist.…
Bad laws outlive their victims
England once taxed daylight. It did so for 155 years. That is the number to keep in mind as we…
Time to abandon Snowy 2.0
All tunnels face geotechnical problems from unknown unknowns. In the Channel Tunnel, huge water pressure opened fractures; there were swelling…
Reporting on self-serving twaddle
In my line of work, I read a lot of self-serving twaddle. Arguably, most of what I read is self-serving…
Brown study
Any normal person would know that at my advanced age and imminent senility, the last thing I should be doing…
Taylor & Canavan must stop the preference leak to Labor
Because the enemy is from within, the next election is probably the most crucial in our nation’s history. If the…
Dire strait
After several months of watching his popularity plumb new depths, Prime Minister Albanese must have been looking forward to an…
Unite the right? In Australia we did that
Britain is again debating how to ‘unite the right’. In the Telegraph last week, Lord Frost – Boris Johnson’s former…
If I’m far right, so was JFK
Okay readers, give me two generalisations about the democratic world over the last fifty years. Well, first off, we can…
Germany’s political earthquake
We think we’ve heard it all before: a European election heralded as a great victory for the right against open…
Aussies teed off
When it comes to sinking the career of Anthony Albanese, the scandalous ‘Golfgate’ should be a hole-in-one for the opposition.…
A phalanx of unelected commissioners
I am often in the car around 5 p.m., having helped with the school/kinder pickup. It’s a great joy hanging…
When will Meghan Markle bring ‘As Ever’ to Britain?
As controversy continues to rage about the ‘he said/he said’ dynamic in Earl Spencer’s damning memoir – and whether Prince…
Andy Burnham’s Great British Grid is doomed
There was a very big hole in the Chancellor John Healey’s claim yesterday that he is going to generate a…
Why did Britain give a Hamas chief’s bodyguard a passport?
The failure of the British state is long-term and corrosive. It emerged this weekend that Mr. X, a former bodyguard…
We need the SAS to be nasty
You know what the SAS’s problem is, according to Monica Grenfell, a civil servant who worked at their HQ? They…
The question Cambridge still refuses to answer over Jason Arday
It’s been six weeks since the Jason Arday scandal came to its tragic conclusion, when the disgraced Cambridge professor was…
Don’t let Randa Abdel-Fattah into Britain
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is very talented, very smart – and very dangerous. She is an academic, sociologist, lawyer and novelist,…
Will anti-Semitism allegations bring down Jordan Bardella?
Jordan Bardella has described as ‘delusional’ accusations he railed against Jews at the start of his political career. The 31-year-old…
The lunacy of Labour conference
It is a most disconcerting experience when you encounter somebody who seems fairly normal but then casually remarks that they…
Poland has long been vital for Britain’s security
Starter for ten: why did Britain declare war on Nazi Germany 87 years ago this month? If you answered ‘to…
Taking in more Palestinian refugees is a terrible idea
On Sunday we learned that a former bodyguard to the leader of Hamas was granted citizenship in Britain before allegedly…
Labour PPS floats billions in NHS recruitment reparations
A Labour government aide has suggested that Britain should spend billions of pounds compensating developing countries whose citizens come to…
Russia’s economy is slowly rotting
For several years already, every fall, Russia’s finance ministry has performed the same ritual. It unveils a budget that looks…
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 autistocracy: the men on the spectrum who rule our world
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 man of great suavity
They were both films that stay in the mind from a lifetime ago. Peter Pan is J.M. Barrie’s contribution to…
The sexiest kind of rock star
It’s strange and sad what the world throws at us. We are assailed by musicals – a production of Reg…
The myth of authentic English food
There were two butcher’s pork pies in my bag that also contained a copy of Lewis Bassett’s The Full English.…
An overpromised land: Farewell to Eden, by Sebastian Faulks, reviewed
Farewell to Eden, Sebastian Faulks’s 18th novel, is a timely masterpiece; a riveting story of war and lost love across…
The Cavalry in the Clouds: tales of the airborne Great War
The first aeroplane flight in Britain was made in 1909 by John Moore-Brabazon, holder of the first British pilot’s licence.…
Rain never stopped play – cricketing feats of Victorian Britain
Drawing on contemporary newspaper reports, this splendid book recreates cricket’s watershed year, 1864. At the time, Kit Harris explains, football…
Madness, mutiny and murder in the Canadian Arctic
The elegant, charismatic and narcissistic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wasn’t the average adventurer that Alaska attracted in 1912. When he arrived…
A fatal mistake: Time Being, by Jude Cook, reviewed
Jude Cook’s intriguing third novel, Time Being, opens with a bang. A philosophy lecturer has been shot dead through the…
Around Britain with a theodolite: a celebration of the Ordnance Survey maps
It took six years, starting in the summer of 1784, for the Board of Ordnance to establish the baseline of…
The Great Uprising: Doom Painting, by A.K. Blakemore, reviewed
We can never know whether a historical novelist really gets it right, but there are clear missteps. One is ascribing…