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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…
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…
The little red man and the unthinking generation
Every morning I walk through Brisbane’s red light district. Nowhere in Queensland is there such a proliferation of red lights…
The academic pursuit of error
I hear so many commentators repeat the mantra: ‘We should teach them how to think, not what to think!’ This…
The legal case for Reform UK
Whilst on holiday in Egypt, I visited the site of the Lighthouse in Alexandria, now a Citadel near a Casbah.…
Vale Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson
Two bands defined my youth – AC/DC and Rose Tattoo. This week we lost the lead singer of the latter.…
Armageddon and Artificial Intelligence
Just when some online worry-warts and so-called ‘climate experts’ are starting to ease a little on warnings that the end…
Alex Antic: reformer, victor, and future leader
Something extraordinary happened last week. South Australian Senator, Alex Antic, won the South Australian Liberal Party presidency. Not a moderate.…
Why the Lord’s Prayer still matters
I am proud to be reading into the Western Australian Parliament a petition initiated by Cáit Folan-Sfakianakis calling for the…
The ‘loose cannons’ of The Spectator Australia
During my latest annual pilgrimage to Europe, I met many ‘conservatives’ who professed to be sympathetic to the themes developed…
Two budgets away from fiscal responsibility
The Australian colonies did comparatively very well in economic development and prosperity. Surely we can repeat this, given that we…
Crisafulli and Check the Science
The most powerful Liberal/National politician in the country, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, has made a sequence of decisions that indicate…
Macklemore wants to ‘free Palestine’. Which one?
American rapper, Macklemore, is the definition of a modern-day activist idiot. I’m sorry to be so blunt, but it’s true.…
Dead within a decade?
The latest round of AI doomsaying arrived with characteristic drama. Recent media coverage has relayed warnings that artificial super-intelligence might…
Backing away from Net Zero
At the Federal level, the Coalition’s once-blurred battle line on Net Zero is gradually crystallising. Although the ‘Modern Liberals’ have…
What the Coalition’s meeting with Reza Pahlavi means for Australia
On Thursday, September 17, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor, Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Ted O’Brien, and other senior members of the…
The Liberals must bite the bullet on preferences
The Liberals will decide in the next six weeks where to send their preferences in Victoria. My model has evaluated…
Labor doesn’t give a toss about Australia
When Tony Burke suddenly cancelled his appearance at the National Press Club in August, it was pretty obvious he had…
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…
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…
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‘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…
Why Putin is unlikely to attend the Miami G20
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has today announced that the United States has invited Vladimir Putin to an upcoming…
Can John Healey dodge another round of tax rises?
Ever since bond vigilantes around the world decided it was time to offload their holdings in sovereign debt, Westminster has…
The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race
Talking about what it is to be English seems to have set the cat amongst the pigeons and upset some…
Farah Ahmed and the useful idiots of Cambridge University
Students of Cambridge University’s gradual self-destruction will recall our disclosure last month that it has appointed as assistant professor a woman called…
Is Andy Burnham being sucked in by AI marketing?
Andy Burnham told Donald Trump this week that we need to ‘rein in AI’, and given who he is getting…
Are the Lib Dems now the party of rearmament?
Ninety years after Liberal leader Archibald Sinclair made the case that military weakness invited aggression, a new generation of liberals…
The rise of anti-migration direct action in Britain
On Monday and Tuesday, a so-called “mega dinghy” made its way across the English Channel from the coast of Normandy.…
How does Burnham plan to tackle Russian disinformation?
Hoaxers, trolls and disinformation merchants beware, Andy Burnham is on your case. In his speech at the UN General Assembly,…
Mamdani’s followers are seizing Berlin
Last Sunday, Germany saw a tale of two election victories. The right-wing Alternative for Deutschland narrowly edged out the left-ish Social…
Why does it cost £237 million to build a railway bridge?
What does £237 million buy you in Britain today? Not a lot, apparently. Botley Road, one of the main routes…
Net Zero has made Britain less safe
Our very ability to keep the lights on and maintain critical infrastructure is under threat. That is the stark message…
Did AI write the French book of the year?
Many decades ago (or so it seems, it was actually January 2023, but things move fast in AI-world) I wrote…
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…