Of the people
This must be the first occasion when a book on politics, written in Australia, has been listed among the year’s…
Meet Paris in a canter
The choice for Australia at the general election is between a slow or an accelerated decline. Managed decline is à…
Turnbullian nightmare
Don’t go into the Christmas holidays and 2019 thinking the nightmare is over. True, Malcolm Turnbull is no more, at…
Show me the man…
‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,’ secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria assured the equally loathsome mass-murderer…
Quit Paris, halve migration
The Victorian election demonstrates a desperate need for powerful leadership based on principle, something last seen in the 2013 Abbott…
Aux bien pensants
Next year in Jerusalem Scott Morrison has no alternative now but to move the Australian Embassy from Tel Aviv to…
Prince Harry, G-G?
Leadership beyond politics, a quality well demonstrated by Prince Harry, is one of the greatest virtues of our constitutional system.…
Winning huge with The Donald
It is likely President Trump will record an unprecedented success in the midterm elections. Mid-term elections invariably go against the…
Gender workers of the world, unite!
‘Surely you mean sex,’ I told the Vice-Chancellor and the other Deans. It was 30 years ago and I had…
Pandering to the Wentworthies
Contrary to reports, Wentworth has not been a blue ribbon Liberal seat since the 1980s. And the seat is so…
Boot Brisbane, kick Canberra
‘I am delighted to be speaking in Cairns, capital of the new State of North Queensland,’ I told the new…
Sharma shafts Shorten
Australia will soon face what is arguably one of the most important elections in its history, with Wentworth a crucial…
Castration of the male?
Expect the US Supreme Court, still captured by political activists, to downgrade men’s rights within the decade, with honorary ‘feminist’…
For real Scomentum, drain the billabong
Our political class are being seen more and more as arrogant and as out of touch as the French aristocracy…
Aux bien pensants
You can’t walk on both sides of the street, PM If the Coalition were to go to the general election…
Sovereignty is sacred
Increasingly, many if not most Australian, British, American and other Western politicians have been imposing policies the people would never…
King should succeed the republican in Wentworth
Are the powerbrokers and lobbyists who run the NSW Liberal Party like the Bourbons? Have they learned nothing, and forgotten…
Reincarnation of the elites
Compliant always with John O’Sullivan’s First Law that all organisations not actively leaning right will, over time, become left-wing, The…
Turnbull’s litany of failures
Turnbull must go. With Abbott, and only Abbott, the Coalition will win in a landslide and save the nation from…
To the Prime Minister, Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott, the Attorney and Governor-General…
The key people in the current crisis urgently need independent and urgent advice, the sort of advice they may not…
In the name of God, go!
The message from the Liberal Party to Malcolm Turnbull should be the same as Leo Amery’s message to Neville Chamberlain…
National roll of dishonour
In times of crisis, Australians demand leadership, leadership of the quality which that great Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, or that…
Leadership drought
Water is the very essence of life. As Benjamin Franklin said, its only when the well’s dry that we know…
Last chance for the Liberals
If the Liberals go to the next election with Turnbull as leader, they’ll be handing over the government to a…
Turnbull’s time is up
The appalling Liberal Party performance in the five Super Saturday by-elections confirms what has long been obvious. This is that…
