The barbarism of Canada’s euthanasia regime
“After a recent experience caring for a patient receiving medical assistance in dying, I felt distressed and uncomfortable. How should…
Why are Democrats more focused on rape and incest than inflation?
Amid 40-year-high inflation, dwindling investment portfolios, and 20-year high mortgage rates, the Democratic Party appears most concerned with protecting the…
A tertiary tragedy
Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility
Desperate Dan tries ‘bread and a $15m circus’
If Netball Australia had any decency, they would reject Dan Andrews $15 million sponsorship offer. The Victoria Premier promised to…
Let’s talk Covid apologies … and reparations
If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon. Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that…
Decline and Fall: Biden embraces childhood trans rights
There was a time not so long ago when educated men and women read Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and…
Jack the Insider is out of bounds
For the past two and a half years, Jack the Insider (Peter Hoysted), through his columns in the Australian, has waged…
Have we finally reached Peak Pride?
Have we reached Peak Pride? As a gay man, I suppose I should feel gratified by the fervor with which…
We should be better than Paul Pelosi conspiracy theories
Always give it three days. This is a golden rule of journalism that requires reporters and commentators to wait when…
America’s military isn’t ready for a war with China
China’s 20th Party Congress concluded on October 23, and President Xi Jinping secured a norm-breaking third term as leader of…
Putin goes to war on LGBT rights
When I moved to Rostov-on-Don, in the south of Russia, in 2018 for what was to be four happy years,…
What BP’s soaring profits tell us about our dependence on oil
So much for those ‘stranded assets’ which former Bank of England governor Mark Carney and many others tried to warn…
Why Matt Hancock signed up for I’m a Celeb
Matt Hancock has this morning had the whip suspended over his decision to appear on the new series of ITV’s…
The Tories are addicted to self-destruction
Well, that round of party unity was fun, wasn’t it? Rishi Sunak, the pragmatist, ushered in an unfamiliar sense of…
Rishi Sunak’s potential tax rises would guarantee a recession
It could be National Insurance. It could be income tax. Perhaps it could even be a rise in VAT. We…
Why Democrats’ ‘election denier’ narrative is backfiring
In New Hampshire, the Senate race between Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan and Retired Army Brigadier General Donald Bolduc is heating…
Labor abstains from nuclear weapons treaty
The big news this week on the nuclear front was not the announcement of a reactor to save Australia from…
Newspeak sabotaged the West
As the probability of war in the Indo-Pacific rises, Australia consciously jeopardises its energy security. In America, where a revolution…
Diamonds are forever: Andrews puts a ring on it
‘Bottom of the barrel politics’ is nothing new to Victorian Labor Leader Daniel Michael Andrews. He loves the contest and…
Why Sunak would find it tough to lose Braverman
The safest place for a minister in a crisis is meant to be the despatch box. The thinking is that…
Victorian Labor: waste and rorts
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ announcement that industry super funds will support the socialisation of the energy grid will create the…
The kids aren’t alright
The Age of Anxiety has dawned. While this may be easy to dismiss as a natural corollary of the recent…
Gove gets the gang back together
It’s not just Suella Braverman and Dominic Raab who have got their old jobs back. Following the Truss interregnum, normal…
Will the Tories copy Le Pen?
In the three years since its landslide victory in the 2019 election, the Conservative party has shed nearly seven million…
Why journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok
Americans: watch your backs. Last week, Forbes released a bombshell report that ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, the popular…
