Can ScoMo escape Turnbull’s shadow?
Questions of causation are notoriously tricky as well as being highly susceptible to confirmation bias – in this context that…
Injun Liz Warren and echoes of Bolt
If you’ve been following American politics in the last few days you’ll have read about Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren’s confrontation…
The Left vs Reasonable Doubt
At the risk of propelling readers to throw down this wonderful magazine in despair and shift to watching the latest…
Kiwi notes
The adoration of Ms Ardern I am just back from a week in New Zealand where my family and I…
Trump’s toughness
Let’s talk quotas, ignoring social media morons and Trump’s toughness. The first topic has to do with all those laments…
Conservative notes
The Right is cleaving Take a look at right-of-centre political parties in the Anglosphere. In Canada things are bad, very…
It was 10 years ago today…
I have been a regular to semi-regular writer for The Spectator Australia pretty much from the start and for all…
Del-Con Notes
I am outraged to learn you’ve cheated on me, absolutely outraged’, says the husband to his wife. Only the man…
Reef notes
In for a penny, in for half a billion bucks Okay, here’s an observation that ought to disturb you. Former…
The end of the beginning
So Malcolm Turnbull finally made a tactically wise move and vacated the leadership to bring on the Peter Dutton challenge…
Young or old, too many Liberal backbenchers won’t stand for principle
I knew things were bad with the federal Liberal Party but I didn’t know things were this bad. You see…
Dear Jymbo
Dear Jymbo, I am a sad and disgruntled Liberal party member of parliament in Canberra. I thought I was being…
Having a list
For the past week I’ve been in my native Canada, aka the epicentre of TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. In…
How’s that dissing the del-cons going?
So we’re now well into year three of the Team Turnbull Labor Lite experiment as Malcolm Turnbull – a big…
May day for Brexit
I confess to being incredibly naive. After the 23 June 2016 Brexit referendum when 1.7 million more Britons voted for…
Fake news and appointing judges
I have made a point of reading dozens and dozens of different mainstream media accounts of the recent retirement of…
Canadian notes
The size of the dog in the fight Can you imagine running on a party platform or manifesto with the…
Our universities and more…
I suspect a fair few readers are pretty incredulous about the whole Peter Ridd saga at James Cook University. Ridd…
West goes south
Last November I was lucky enough to have been invited to the Sydney launch of the Ramsay Centre for Western…
Australian notes
Want to know how low the commitment to free speech has sunk these days? About a week ago the White…
Evil vs dumb
The great US columnist Charles Krauthammer once noted this truth about contemporary political life in America: ‘To understand the workings…
Those dastardly, discommodious Delcons
Remember back to the time of the coup against Tony Abbott when the great and the good (I speak loosely…
Australian notes
On tour with Jordan I got the phone call back in January. The man on the other end of the…
The fight Conservatives must have
Hands up if you read Paul Kelly in last Saturday’s Australian? He was writing on the state of conservatism in…
Satirical notes
Night of the Black Hands It was a dark mid-March weekend night in Adelaide. The fine citizens of South Australia’s…
