Pauline Hanson offers Angus Taylor support to stop ISIS fighters returning
According to Credlin on Sky News Australia, Pauline Hanson has written to Angus Taylor offering One Nation support for any legislation…
Victoria … now what?
Federal Liberal Party president Tony Abbott has emerged to back the disendorsement of Moira Deeming. The Victorian Liberal Party made…
The India question and Labor’s geopolitical ignorance
Defence is not a game. Our geopolitical advantages are not trivial election pieces to be moved around the board. And…
Before Lindsey Graham died
America was shocked by the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham who, it has been reported, died after a short…
Grifters, spivs, and thieves
It’s the Labor Party’s National Conference in Adelaide at the moment. I was hoping to be invited to MC the…
A Coup-ee from Canberra
Recent discussion at the Labor National Conference has revived debate about an Australian republic. Much of that debate focuses on…
Multiculturalism is a crisis of self
Just as a person without convictions is easily swayed to differing and conflicting positions, so is a country without convictions.…
The Odyssey: the film that launched a thousand tweets
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has attracted a lot of attention for its DEI casting. Elon Musk is especially aggrieved and taken…
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the ABC, and the Celebration Parallax
Earlier this month on Insiders, Patricia Karvelas told the nation that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ‘wants to make all those…
Bronze statues are not threatening Australia’s future
If intelligence could be measured in bronze, some of the people campaigning to tear down Australia’s colonial statues would struggle…
The standard you walk past
Drive through your own suburb this Sunday. Look around. A shopping trolley on its side. A tag on a fence…
Vikki Campion’s warning: Mess with Barnaby and meet your match
People have been bagging out Barnaby Joyce for rousing on his dog while doing an interview on an iPhone on…
Australian ‘gun’ culture?
Why are some humans so fascinated by guns? Turn on the TV and it’s everywhere. The cultural might of the…
Inflation, politics, and Australia’s lost decade
Inflation is back in headlines, and Labor is busy spinning stories about geopolitics and supply chain disruptions. Meanwhile, the opposition…
The prosperity paradox
Seneca was one of the wealthiest men in ancient Rome. He possessed immense wealth, political influence and every luxury the…
Pilbara strike exposes union
When just a few hundred workers can bring Australia’s most important export gateway to a standstill, something has gone badly…
Waiting for the counter-reformation
Four of the great membership institutions of Australian life are emptying out at once, and we explain each one differently.…
What if small businesses went on strike against Labor?
The trouble with Labor governments is that they live by Karl Marx’s maxim: ‘From each according to his ability, to…
A hub for division
The Australian Labor government launched a $6 million Social Cohesion Education Hub (SCE Hub) on June 30, to ‘address antisemitism…
Australia must engage with the man Iranians are calling for
Australia has already acknowledged the undeniable truth about the Islamic regime occupying Iran. In November last year, the Albanese government…
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…
Plumbing vs climate change
We had the plumber in the other day, and were grateful that he even turned up. Although he charged us…
Who you gonna trust, baby?
If you were asked to boil down today’s Australian and British right-of-centre politics to one short question, this would be…
A constitution to rule them all
Last week was about scrutiny, with Barnaby Joyce declining, as One Nation’s Treasury spokesman, to commit to costing One Nation’s…
The lessons our schools need to teach
Earlier this month, America marked the 250th birthday of its Declaration of Independence. This anniversary should also matter to Australians.…
The coming AI bust
Nearly 200 economists including 15 Nobel laureates and tech leaders this month issued a statement that warned artificial intelligence poses…
Racketeering on an industrial scale
When the 50th anniversary ALP national conference kicks off in Adelaide this week, Labor’s ties to the trade union movement…
The monetisation of murder
Invited to address a rally in defence of Beijing’s victims on a freezing day in Sydney, I referred to media…
Cool it, lefties, we all need air con
This summer, Europe has experienced a wave of record-breaking temperatures. Southern France hit 44 degrees Celsius. Naturally, the French took…
Does it matter that Wes Streeting has no military experience?
Since Wes Streeting became the UK’s latest Secretary of State for Defence earlier this week, critics have claimed that he…
When did fighting for Britain become such a fringe idea?
Each of us, I suspect, has at least one pretty niche belief. A view so odd that its best chance…
Only North Sea oil can save Burnham’s cost of living drive
Andy Burnham has made it clear that he doesn’t much like free markets. And they are making it equally clear…
John Healey is more left-wing than you think
The appointment of John Healey as Chancellor sends a signal about defence funding. Healey resigned from Keir Starmer’s government over…
What is the point of the Lib Dems?
The Liberal Democrat party of Russia and the Liberal Democrat party of the United Kingdom are not, on the face…
Why I’m not celebrating Andy Burnham’s northern cabal
Andy Burnham, the man dubbed King of the North, chief evangelist of Manchesterism and pioneer of ‘No. 10 up ’ere’,…
Mike Lindell’s long-shot bid for Minnesota governor
“For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit mypillow.com” is a jingle that punctuates every hour of…
There’s nothing stopping Gary Lineker from paying more tax
There are bus fares to pay for, a rates cut for the pubs, and of course extra shelters for the…
Watch: Farage’s car crash heckler
Usually the phrase ‘car crash interview’ is only a metaphor, referring to a politician after a terrible exchange. But now…
Badenoch on Shapps: The Tories are now a ‘very different party’
“This is a new and different Conservative Party.” Sky’s @LucyJMcDaid asks Kemi Badenoch about reports former Conservative cabinet minister Sir…
Jameela Jamil’s Brit bashing is embarrassingly out of date
Poor Jameela Jamil. No one gave her the memo. She thinks it’s still 2021 and that a spot of sassy…
A business rates cut won’t save our pubs
When the announcement arrived this morning that Andy Burnham is cutting business rates for pubs, social clubs and live music…
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…
What will Jacinda Ardern do next?
When I first met Jacinda Ardern in the early 2010s, the notion that the young MP with the toothy smile…
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a triumph
High Antipodean
The death of that fabled cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers – one of the greatest all-rounders who ever lived – is…
A Treasury on YouTube
It’s strange how much we take for granted the world we inherit, which is available to us on YouTube for…
To be trans Hamlet or not to be
Is there something strange about seeing a great comedian who identifies as a trans woman do a solo Hamlet, the…
Tip-Toeing in Manchester
The world knows that Andy Burnham, the ‘King from the North’, was a very successful mayor of Manchester. There have…
Unlucky break: All In, by Claire Powell, reviewed
Claire Powell’s first novel, At the Table (2022), delineated a year in the life of the Maguire family from south…
New York crime caper: Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead, reviewed
Cool Machine, the final novel in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy (following Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto), is another tour de…
Why spiders deserve our respect, not fear or disgust
I had not thought much about spiders until I read Maria Tatar’s Arachnomania; now I can think of little else.…
Adolescent anxieties: Schoolgirl, by Osamu Dazai, reviewed
In June 1948, the writer Osamu Dazai and his last love, Tomie Yamazaki, drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Aqueduct near…
When Mum went marching with the EDL
Nicola Wilding is a documentary film producer, whose family was originally rural working class. Aged 60, her mother, Sandra, prompted…
Why Cicero’s life and times have never seemed more relevant
How should we think about Cicero? He was the orator who claimed that he did his best to save the…
Will any lone fanatic soon be capable of bioterrorism?
In the summer of 2020, while the country was between ‘waves’ of Covid, Dominic Cummings convened a meeting at my…
An alternative Paris: Château Rouge, by Amit Chaudhuri, reviewed
Nearly ten years ago, the author, critic and classical Indian musician Amit Chaudhuri took up a visiting fellowship in Paris.…