What if Daniel Andrews loses his seat?
Could Premier Dan Andrews lose his seat at the Victorian state election on November 26? This is a serious, surprise…
Massachusetts Republicans pay the price for Trumpism
Massachusetts voters are known to be pragmatic. Despite being one of the most liberal states in the country, Massachusetts has…
Don’t expect the midterms to change our foreign policy
President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies were expecting a romp on Tuesday. So were many of the career prognosticators…
Matt Hancock starts his jungle jamboree
‘Mr Hancock, I presume?’ was the reaction our former Health Secretary presumably hoped to elicit upon entering the jungle last…
The eradication of the victims of Enniskillen
In Northern Ireland, the dead are being eradicated. This week marks the 35th anniversary of the IRA bombing of a remembrance…
Trumpism is dead, long live populism!
Donald Trump is done for. Trumpism too. That’s the main takeaway of the Midterms. Many of the candidates Trump backed…
Biden vs Trump is a contest in which we all lose
Overnight President Biden announced that he intends to run again for the White House in 2024 and beat Donald Trump…
Palaszczuk’s war on retail
We are approaching the crucial Christmas sale period – the make-or-break moment when businesses terrorised by the government for two…
The remarkable transformation of Keir Starmer
Amid all the frenetic changes of leadership in the Conservative party, something important has been overlooked about the Labour party:…
What I learned making calls for Democrats and Republicans
I’m a registered Republican in Florida yet the only email offer I received to be a campaign volunteer this season…
Pro-lifers were the midterms’ biggest losers
When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in favor of the overturning…
A fool may be known by six things, now there’s a seventh
Let’s face it, the ISIS wives would not be returning to Australia if the Islamist extremist head-lopping Caliphate was still…
How AIDS charities are erasing gay men
An HIV+ gay man claims to have been denied counselling by an AIDS charity because he openly refuses to include…
At Mar-a-Lago as the red wave died out
It was a dark and stormy election night at Mar-a-Lago, former president Donald Trump’s Florida home and private club, which…
Grace for the graceless?
For two and a half years, many endured the impacts of authoritarian decisions made by politicians and unelected bureaucrats, spurred…
Time to cancel Trump’s Political Apprentice
Donald Trump did not emerge from the wonkish world of conservative politics and policy. He was a product of the…
Gas reserve: woeful short-term thinking
Energy scarcity equates to higher costs of living and lower quality of life. This fundamental equation is being proven in…
Russia will be sweating over its withdrawal from Kherson
Almost everyone has known that the city of Kherson, stranded on the right bank of the Dnipro River, was all…
Net Zero? The hypocrisy of the religious clerisy
It is a rootless age when 100 of the leaders of various Christian and other churches in Oceania can pen an…
Why Russia pulled out of Kherson
In one of the biggest developments of the Ukraine war, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has just announced the evacuation…
Who will be next week’s ministerial exit?
For the past fortnight, it was Suella Braverman. Now it’s Sir Gavin Williamson. The media aims to destroy two careers…
How did I get the midterms so wrong?
How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought…
What the Gavin Williamson saga says about British politics
I wonder if the fall of Gavin Williamson is the latest evidence that British political parties are becoming harder to…
Why didn’t Democrats pay a price for their extremism?
The modern political pundit is a voice in the wilderness, a self-styled beacon of truth against a pampered and bought-off…
The US midterm results are a wake-up call for the Republicans
There was no ‘red wave’ in America last night. This became obvious fairly early on, when congressional seats the Republicans…
