Cartoons are forever
From the outside few observers would have guessed that this is where so many of their taxpayers’ dollars had been…
Conservative notes
And they wonder why their supporters are deserting them… The whole 18C hate-speech saga is now verging on the pathetic.…
Conservative Notes
You’d be hard pressed to be overly optimistic about the state of conservative politics in the developed English-speaking world right…
Provincial notes
Turnbull was right. Let the states tax us Go and teach a constitutional law course in my native Canada and…
Australian notes
Brexit, abbott, latham and team turnbull I just learned a fascinating fact. Apparently the voters in Britain actually voted to…
Hypocrisy and free speech in sports
For those of you who don’t follow US sports, let me tell you that there is currently a big brouhaha…
Time to sign up for free speech
The sorry state of free speech in this country appears to concern a lot of people in this country. The…
Australian notes
Turnbull’s betrayal on 18c Okay, let’s stop pretending that the Liberal Party has a deep commitment to free speech. We’re…
Those upper house blues
Here’s a question for all you readers. Of course I don’t expect anyone who’s gone through an Australian high school…
Why go into politics?
The state of politics here, and in the United Kingdom, and in the United States, raises the question of why…
Australian notes
Some readers may be wondering what it’s like to vote Labor for the first time. Okay, by ‘vote Labor’ I…
Groupthink in the media and political classes
Never have so few done so little for so many. That more or less sums up our political class in…
How many like me?
So to all those Liberal MPs, and perhaps to Barnaby Joyce and the Nats, here’s something you need to consider,…
Australian notes
Brexit, 1381 ad, and Turnbull’s election Well, the Brits did it. They defied the warnings and threats from ‘I got…
Australian notes
Brexit, Del-cons and Trumpkins Later this week it begins. The voters will have their say. First it will happen in…
The Super Debate (cont’d)
One of the joys of writing for this publication is that it is such a broad church. And that’s the…
Diary
Around the world in 280 hours for work. Jules Verne would have been proud of me. In Britain, I arrived…
Elementary, my dear Henry
The superannuation changes are clearly retrospective
Super bad
The Turnbull government is hellbent on introducing changes that are anti-Liberal
Leaving the dance with the one who brought you
Turnbull’s Liberals have forgotten a wise old adage
Del-Conmania
Have you got what it takes to join the latest ‘irrelevant’ conservative political group?
Flagging interest
Given the choice, the Kiwis may end up preferring the Union Jack after all
Fool’s gold
The Australian Law Reform Commission is wrong.
Chasing the latte vote
Across the anglosphere, right of centre parties are ignoring their core supporters
Betting on, er, Trump
The appeal of a rude, narcissistic reality TV star cannot be under-estimated
