What has Pelosi’s Taiwan trip wrought?
In becoming the highest-ranking American politician to visit Taiwan in a quarter-century, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become the dominant…
Truss and Sunak are blind to the coming crisis
In times of crisis in the 20th century, voters called for politicians from opposing parties to put aside their differences…
I apologize for my white baby
I’m here to apologize to my brothers and sisters of color — my white daughter’s pale skin has brought me…
Grievance politics will never reconcile
Recognition, reconciliation, closing the gap, a Voice … all bundled into a grievance package squeezing the guilt out of contemporary…
Do North Sea birds dream of giant spinning machetes?
Gutting the agricultural industry via nitrogen bans isn’t the only bad idea washing around Europe’s climate elite. Four ‘virtuous’ nations…
How Truss plans to bring the Bank of England to heel
Liz Truss believes the Bank of England has lost control of inflation. If chosen as the country’s next prime minister,…
Why Liz Truss is right to say ‘forecasts are not destiny’
‘Forecasts are not destiny,’ said Liz Truss in last night’s debate: a remark that has drawn alarm in some quarters. If…
Britain should follow Trump’s lead over Jerusalem
Liz Truss has signalled a historic shift in British foreign policy by saying she would review the location of the…
The halcyon days of Anglo-German relations
In Brenners, Germany’s grandest grand hotel, in Baden-Baden, Germany’s smartest spa town, there’s a corner of a foreign drawing room…
How ‘taking the knee’ spoiled football
Premier League footballers ‘taking a knee’ came in at the tail end of the 2019-20 season, when stadiums were empty…
Ukraine’s fate may rest on a mild winter
Russia is once again relying on ‘General Winter’. Instead of freezing German advances on Moscow, the plan today is to…
The myth that Hiroshima was necessary
If you think the falsehoods spilling out of Ukraine about casualties and atrocities are shocking, meet the greatest lie of…
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Whose voice?
Here we go again. No sooner is Labor elected than they claim a mandate to create an institution that will…
Brown study
When I was an MP, ‘details’ was my middle name. Whenever we had a brain-snap about the latest way to…
Climate tropes
Don’t be fooled
Pandora’s submarines
Aukus could create unintended consequences
Defending Taiwan
Beijing’s sabre-rattling about Pelosi is just the latest attempt to bully the West
Rise of the race shifters
Governments are incentivising the growth of Aboriginal identity fraud
Gender behind bars
Housing trans prisoners is not straight forward
Love Labor’s Voice
Giving judges a blank cheque is fraught with danger
Business/Robbery, etc.
We need better parties to deal with the coming crises
Undoing Australia
The University of Melbourne is training revolutionaries to dismantle the nation
Primeval Voice
So, Archie Roach is dead at 66. It’s hard to read of the artistic triumphs and the personal catastrophes without…
Aussie Life
I read in the Australian last week that the Queensland parliament is considering criminalising stealthing. And no, that’s not a…
