Gee, Leigh. Donald Trump is Robert Mugabe?
I’m old enough to remember when journalists gave us the news and we added our own prejudice. These days journalists…
How will the Trump presidency end?
Donald Trump will not go quietly into the good night. In fact, he seems determined to leave the office with…
Anthony Albanese’s conduct confirms he’s a joke, not a leader
Australia and the United States share a history marked by many similarities and some stark divides. Over more than a century, however, our…
Deplorables don’t riot
For months, the media has warned us that a narrow Joe Biden victory in the presidential election could lead to…
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: 1948-2020
The former chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, died yesterday at the age of 72. In an article for The Spectator, republished here, he wrote…
Malcolm and Kevin, don’t you have homes to go to? Several homes?
At a time of record levels of government spending and intrusion, it is perhaps timely to consider the words of…
Honk – sorry – bonk if #YouStandWithDan
Logic, Danandrewstan-style. A quick glance at the updated coronavirus “roadmap” for reopening released by the Chairman today tells that even…
Coronavirus is fading, but not Daniel Andrews power lust
Declarations of Joe Biden’s victory overshadowed yet another press conference by Daniel Andrews — not that the Victorian Premier will…
Joe Biden wins the election
Four days after a (much closer than predicted) election, American networks have called the race for Joe Biden, who has secured more…
Trump should concede — with a caveat
The networks have made official what seemed to have occurred when Georgia flipped from red to blue: Joe Biden won…
The Republicans’ nightmare in Georgia
Joe Biden is the President-elect. President Trump, however, at the time of writing, continues to dig in. With lawsuits filed in…
Liberté! An open letter by 200 French lawyers protesting against lockdown
After saying there was ‘no question of lockdown’, Emmanuel Macron has announced what many feared: the implementation of a new…
Britain closes borders to visitors from Denmark after mink farm outbreak
How worried should we be about a mutant strain of Coronavirus found in Denmark’s mink farms? The virus was found…
Europe’s cowardly response to terror
It says much about the endemic moral cowardice of Europe that Emmanuel Macron is being hailed as the saviour of…
Departures all round?
Shocking Chinese whispers came out yesterday that Vladimir Putin – supreme leader of Russia’s ‘totally not a dictatorship’ dictatorship –…
Anthony Albanese warns the Tsar
Some people have something to say and other people just have to say something. Anthony Albanese is firmly in the…
Why Trump lost
With the last dominoes of Georgia and Pennsylvania falling, there is now clarity on the 2020 election cycle. Based on…
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Human rights discarded at the Gates of Hell
Covid has emboldened totalitarian authorities
Votes in the balance
As we go to print the US election hangs in the balance. Both candidates have made late night speeches; one…
The demonisation of Sir John Kerr
A study in early cancel culture
One-of-a-kind warrior
On the singularity of the maverick Donald Trump
Dig coal, not dung
Liberal policies save Labor from the slag heap
Structural racism is a fraud
Identity politics is based on a fallacy
The Left: where ‘anti-racism’ has become antisemitism
Jeremy Corbyn is a symptom of a far wider problem
