Aussies teed off
The Chalmers diet
Sydney’s working class look hungry. By that I mean, they are getting noticeably thinner. My advice to the political class…
Nepal and the scam of climate reparations
When the Earth shakes – climate reparations fall out. That may be the eventual lesson of the Nepal flood that…
Why is Albanese so defensive about Bowen’s tropical talkfest?
The Prime Minister appeared distinctly agitated when answering questions about Bowen’s expensive and poorly attended paradise climate talkfest in Fiji.…
Is offshore wind a defence risk?
Here are two things worth considering… Firstly, green energy projects and state government agendas envision a version of Australia essentially…
Memo to Liberal Party
Liberal leadership hopeful Andrew Hastie sent an email to supporters over the weekend, doubling-down in his unnecessary public spat with…
Remembering September 11: still reeling 25 Years on
It’s 25 years since that fateful day when a whole new reality crashed in on our world and set civilisation…
Veterans deserve better
In the May Budget, the Labor government, through Veterans’ Affairs Minister Matt Keogh, announced a $5,000-a-year cap on veterans’ allied-health…
We have not forgotten
It is my view that the Liberal Party and News24 are making a serious mistake by persistently conflating the Ben…
Please never explain
You may have heard I’ve been working as a barista, driving a school bus, and driving a truck in regional…
AOC and the parasocial nature of politics
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who often goes by AOC, recently took to the internet to share that she would be freezing…
Restoring choice for stay-at-home parents
There is little to no defence from those in the modern Liberal Party of Malcolm Fraser. Even rarer is any…
Vale Jim Frecklington – an Australian craftsman for the ages
Australia has lost one of its most extraordinary and most artistic craftsmen. Jim Frecklington, royal coachmaker, horseman, artist, and patriot,…
Another attempt at internet censorship
As we outlined earlier this year, recent years have seen a steady stream of government proposals to crack down on…
One Nation stands against extremism on both sides
Immigration is the question of our generation. How we, as legislators and citizens, answer it will determine what sort of…
One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit?
The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been meteoric. With the collapse in the Coalition’s polling, its own documented…
Beggars beware! The government is here to ‘help’
The Victorian government is proposing to decriminalise begging as an offence, but is this benevolence or perhaps something else more…
Establishment attacks! Pauline explodes leftie brains
Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of…
Woke, broke, ridiculed Victoria
This moment in Victoria’s history could not be more critical. With about 70 days until the most pivotal state election…
Throwing the first stone
There’s a quote I remember from my Sunday School days that has been brought to mind by this week’s news…
Politicians discover men
How refreshing to hear a man in power call out the bias baked into our institutions against men. Let alone…
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…
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…
Barnaby’s bread and circuses
I am borderline innumerate. Angus enjoys reminding our children of this, perhaps because his own identity is so bound up…
Chairman Kim’s codswallop
Many, if not most, Australians would have been embarrassed, even angered, by the fatuous welcome to ‘Naarm’ provided to the…
View from the Chairman’s Lounge
Somewhere behind a door through which few Australians will ever pass, inside the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge, a member of parliament…
Whose super is it? Albo’s?
A recent cartoon in the Australian captures the confidence trick Labor politicians are playing on the workers they pretend to…
We’re still woke, folks
Firstly, let me remind readers we have some big elections looming in the Anglosphere. Everyone will know about the US…
The road to hell is paved with political intentions
Standing beside Georgia Tree, Labor’s candidate for the safe Labor seat of Secret Harbour recently, West Australian premier Roger Cook…
Whyalla wipeout
On Monday night, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen conceded that green hydrogen had proved slower and more expensive…
Hastie & Pickering
It’s fascinating to compare the current imbroglio between two potential political leaders: Warren Pickering, of whom nobody had ever heard…
If 9/11 happened today
Twenty-five years on, if the 9/11 terrorist attack by al-Qaeda happened today, the response in Australia and countries such as…
The Plibersek paradox
It’s surely impossible to imagine Tanya Plibersek – Plibbers to most of us – ever being the prime minister of…
Piddington and the idiocy of middle-class progressivism
The Piddington result is in. Ninety-two per cent of the voters in the tiny Oxfordshire village have voted to secede…
Another cost of living crisis is coming
Britain is heading head first towards another cost of living crisis. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)…
Should Andy Burnham really appoint C of E bishops?
Hmm. Any minute now, the Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill will remove the last religion-related constraints on Andy…
Holborn and St Pancras is a bizarre constituency
Why is Zack Polanski campaigning in Urdu? Even by the standards of the hypnotic hooter-helper, a man who once sang…
Jews aren’t safe in the NHS
The political wing of our NHS has moved on from frantically erasing the word ‘woman’ from its cervical cancer awareness-raising…
Reform’s Wales leader stands down following arrest
Reform’s leader in Wales has stood down after being arrested over the weekend on suspicion of assault and controlling or…
Why the Lucy Letby Inquiry won’t change the NHS
It’s unlikely the families of the babies Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering at the Countess of Chester Hospital will…
Are school dinners really making kids fat?
The first crusade against school dinners saw Jamie Oliver defeat Bernard Matthews and rid the canteen of Turkey Twizzlers. The…
The horror of Britain’s broken borders
The British state is facilitating the rape of British women. There is no other way to put it now. Consider…
Did demographics decide the Swedish election?
After four years in office, Sweden’s right-wing government appears to have lost its parliamentary majority in Sunday’s election. The count…
Zelensky’s strategy is national suicide
For Americans who follow the Russian-Ukrainian war, the past few months must look very strange. In the first half of…
My issue with Trafalgar Square’s ‘Lady in Blue’
Ever since the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square became the location in 1999 for a succession of temporary artworks, many…
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 plan is for the country to fall in love with Nigel again’: Richard Tice on what’s next for Reform
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…
This silly and drivelling piece of tosh
Every so often something comes along that is so bad it fills the soul with wonder and dismay. It seems…
A life lived to the hilt: Clare Consuelo Sheridan
Tall, blonde, beautiful, ruthless, brave and amoral to her fingertips (many of this biography’s paragraphs end with ‘The two became…
For better, for worse: Death Do Us by Ruthy Mason reviewed
Bea should be elated: her sweet and loyal boyfriend Jake has just proposed, with the family ring, over dinner. Instead,…
Stop moaning and do something: the active vs the passive voice
The Jamaican-American poet and essayist Claudia Rankine won a slew of prizes for her book Citizen (2014). Her blend of…
Pongs of praise: the history and importance of smell for our antisceptic age
For smell historians and experts, of whom there are gratifyingly more than you’d think, a standard assumption to be skewered…
First among equals: what makes a great leader and does it matter?
Almost two decades ago, Jared Diamond cemented his international reputation with Guns, Germs and Steel, which argued that geography and…
A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed
Readers of Mark Bowles’s All My Precious Madness (2024) will find much that is familiar in How Do People Stay…
Double jeopardy: the story of history’s most audacious KGB defector
Two spies meet in a white-tiled bathroom in Tehran. One large chap is perched on a creaking laundry basket, while…
She lived frantically ever after: the jaw-dropping life of Barbara Cartland
Matthew Sweet’s jaw-dropping life of Barbara Cartland opens with the grande dame reclining on her chaise longue in the library…