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…
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…
