In the studio with Ye on Tim Pool’s podcast
Knoxville, Maryland Ye is not in Calabasas anymore. The superstar rapper, designer and now 2024 presidential candidate flew to western…
Albo’s big night out
Not even Menzies looked this good in a penguin suit, Anthony Albanese thought to himself as he stood before the…
We need more male authors
Just as there are certain social and developmental proclivities that distinguish men and women generally, there are some subtle differences…
Power for power’s sake
Unlike the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who wrote that the East German government – unhappy with the election result –…
Local government needs to wake up from Woke
The increasingly pervasive Woke activist agenda has escaped its confines in university and academia, and hit the mainstream. We have…
Showdown looms over China’s new ‘super-embassy’
All eyes tonight will be on Rishi Sunak when he addresses the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet. The Prime Minister is…
Hakuna Matata? Sacked for being white
A sign-language interpreter performing in a Broadway production of The Lion King has allegedly been fired for being white. Keith Wann, 53,…
Why conservatives should consider antitrust against Microsoft
Amid the renewed energy around antitrust enforcement in recent years, one name has been notably missing: Microsoft. The antitrust villain…
Yes, Australia has a problem with live birth data
The fact-checkers at the ABC jumped to the government’s rescue when I asked a few pointed questions about the reported decline in birth rates…
Is Xi Jinping in trouble?
The Chinese people seem to have run out of patience with their country’s draconian Covid policies. After almost three years…
Why are wives still taking their husbands’ last names?
“Why don’t more men take their wives’ last names?” asked the Washington Post in a recent piece about a Maine…
Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind
Staging rebellions against their own government has become a way of life for many Tory MPs – but why choose…
The Wellcome Collection’s war on itself
If you, like me, have an unhealthy taste for depressing news, then you’ll have already heard about the Wellcome Collection’s…
Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?
Everyone on the television agrees: seeing an England team give succour to a repressive regime by playing prestigious fixtures on…
Matt Hancock showed how Conservatives can win
It’s somehow appropriate that Matt Hancock finished third in the 2022 series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! Third is…
Lying-in-State leaves its mark on parliament
The Lying-in-State of Her Majesty the Queen was widely hailed in September as a triumph. The organisation was slick, the…
Can Sunak get a grip on his party?
As Tory MPs ponder whether to stand down at the next election in the face of grim polling, the Prime…
Why ‘Uber for the countryside’ is a great idea
The disappearance of rural bus routes is one of the small tragedies of our time. It isn’t, alas, a very glamorous…
America is entering a golden age of democratic capitalism
America could be entering the ‘Great Stagflation’, defined by economist Noriel Roubini as ‘an era of high inflation, low growth,…
What Trump’s dinner with antisemites tells us about 2024
Well, it was quite a Thanksgiving week at Mar-a-Lago. For those just waking from their food comas, the Cliff Notes…
Dan enters the pantheon of ‘great’ leaders
Now the hurley burley’s done, and Dan Andrews is in the pantheon of the state’s great leaders, it’s time to…
Govern me harder, Daddy
The outcome of the Victorian election can perhaps be explained in one sentence: it’s better to believe the fairy tale…
Matt Hancock comes third on I’m A Celeb
All of Westminster was glued to their screens on Sunday tonight to watch the final of I’m A Celebrity. For…
Dying on their knees
Remember these two analogies. First one. At the start of the pandemic hysteria in Florida, the uncritical press had petrified…
Gender quotas are never the solution
‘To be judged on the content of our character and not the colour of our skin’ – that was one of…
