The black hands of Liberalism
Somewhere near Liberal Party HQ the comrades of the Black Hand gathered to discuss their next move in the overthrow…
Australian notes
The new aristocrats Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think…
Turnbull’s twilight urgatory
‘I Told You So!’. These are not words that listeners usually enjoy hearing. In fact, if you’re looking for a…
Australian Notes
Let’s keep Triggs for the fun of it I wouldn’t trust Malcolm Turnbull or George Brandis to pick what type…
Australian notes
The ABC of ESPN I confess to being something of a sports addict. I like playing and watching competitive sports,…
Canadian notes
Liking/loathing Trump I’m over in Canada for another few days and while here have been getting a lot of news…
New York diary
The Brexit symposium I am here in New York City thanks to New York University, and in particular to the…
Australian notes
Diversity’s hypocrites Let’s say that you’re a ‘diversity’ freak. What you want in life is to take some group X,…
If you thought the federal Liberal Party was bad…
This weekend’s truly awful swing against the Libs in NSW reminds us all that as bad as the Liberal politicians…
Australian Notes
Well, that was another depressingly terrible week for free speech in this country as political correctness and identity politics stayed…
Conservative notes
O’Sullivan’s Law & the Ramsay Centre John O’Sullivan is a British journalist, one time editor of the US’s National Review,…
Del-con notes
Terry, you’re wrong… My esteemed fellow Speccie contributor Terry Barnes last week offered some advice to the federal Coalition based…
There is no alternative?
How many readers believe that any political party in the democratic world can continue to win every single election for…
Australian notes
Tim wilson is wrong In this past Saturday’s Inquirer page, Liberal MP Tim Wilson – former Commissioner in the Australian…
Thinking further about your departure, Cory…
What’s done is done and can n’er be undone. You’ve left the Liberal Party behind and barring a Black Swan set of circumstances…
Fatuous fallacies
I confess that my expectations when it comes to Liberal Party MPs are pretty low these days. Many of them are quite content with…
Brief candle
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of PM…
The 16 per cent non-solution
As you read this it will have been half a year since Mr Turnbull and the Coalition limped back into…
Vulgarian? Populist? Brawler?
The inauguration is over and we now have the most unlikely of US presidents. A complete outsider to politics and…
John Key’s score card
Just how good a Prime Minister was New Zealand’s recently retired John Key? I ask the question as a right-of-centre,…
Australian notes
Malcolm the Fission Fiasco I don’t agree with all those many right-of-centre commentators who think the current Prime Minister, Mr…
When did aristocracy come back into vogue?
Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think you were living…
Trump, Turnbull & Abbott
Let’s say you’ve recently been hired to earn a living as an opinion piece writer for a newspaper. Let’s really…
When bias is patently clear
Here is journalist Rex Murphy of Canada’s National Post calling out the patent bias of so many journalists and opinion…
Cartoons are forever
From the outside few observers would have guessed that this is where so many of their taxpayers’ dollars had been…
