The Victorian Liberals are totally...
Didn’t I tell you three months ago? If the Liberal party around Australia is buggered, in Victoria, it is totally…
Victoria: the trauma bond is real
On Saturday night, I was sitting in an auditorium with about 13,000 other fellow ‘cookers’*. We were in attendance listening…
Why China can’t stop zero Covid
The Covid situation in China is not looking good right now. The authorities have trapped themselves into a situation from…
Justin Trudeau’s strange defence of his protest crackdown
On Friday, Justin Trudeau made his much-anticipated appearance before the Canadian Public Order Emergency Commission, where he gave testimony about…
Where did it all go wrong for trans charity Mermaids?
Farewell Susie Green, the CEO of Mermaids, a charity that describes itself as supporting ‘trans, non-binary and gender-variant children, young…
The empty Englishness of Love Actually
One of the pleasures of fiction, be it book or film, is that it can take us to actual places…
China’s zero-Covid anger is erupting
Protests seem to be breaking out in several major Chinese cities in what has been a week of horrors for…
Would Solzhenitsyn have supported Putin’s war?
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s first novel, appeared 60 years ago this month. Vividly portraying…
The conspiracy against grammar schools
I love a good hard debate, especially at a university. I can’t recall how many such clashes I have had,…
Laughing at libertarians as crypto burns
In many countries, tricking stupid people out of money is a crime. In the United States, it’s the basis of…
Danistan reborn
Well, Victorians better get ready for their dear leader to immortalise himself in bronze. Once a Premier has served (ruled?)…
Pull up! Pull up!
The test pilot was the fourth to try and figure out why the new plane kept crashing. The previous three…
Fan-baiting: the toxic culture of Hollywood progressives
Bros is a gay romcom written by and starring Billy Eichner. The critics, we are told, love it. If you…
Why is Britain still sending foreign aid to China?
Just why is Britain still spending over £50 million a year in development aid to China? Despite it being the…
At war with my pearly whites
I am a dental basket case. When I was a child, my orthodontist used to joke that he could drive…
What the experts got wrong about migration
On New Year’s Day, 2014, during those sunny, innocent times of Cameron, Clegg and Miliband, Labour MP Keith Vaz headed down to…
Why Britain can’t build infrastructure
The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that the government will spend (read: borrow) £43 billion this year to keep the…
The lost souls of the Atrium hotel
Heathrow, in London’s western outlands, never lets you forget it’s there. Jets ascend and descend constantly, turning the air into…
The Leftism I used to know
I need to confess my deepest, darkest secret. Back when I was a political amateur, not knowing any better, I…
Woolworths: let’s go Bradford!
I was heartened to hear of Woolworths volte-face concerning its despicable vaccine mandate policy. Nevertheless, despite the passage of time…
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Grand Theft Albo
In the run-up to the last federal election, Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen promised repeatedly that they would slash Australia’s…
Living under Dan
It can’t get any worse
Unrepresentative Victorian swill
Preference trading corrupts Victorian politics
Woke orthodoxy thrives in law firms
The West reaps what it sows
