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Europe’s rightward drift Two of the great issues which animated the woke EU establishment until recently were hatred of Donald…
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Woke juggernaut gets the wobbles It often feels as if the woke Left is omnipotent, razing all before it as…
‘Crackpot’ lab leak theory suddenly ‘feasible’
What a difference a year makes. Sir Richard Dearlove, the MI6 chief (‘C’) from 1999 to 2004, was first interviewed on the UK’s excellent Planet Normal podcast almost exactly a year ago. His…
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Reds under the downing street beds Two unorthodox senior advisors to Number 10 deserve attention. The first and most prominent…
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Boris Johnson’s eco-road to ruin The results of Scotland’s elections next week will dominate British politics for the foreseeable future.…
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Europe’s political cross-dressers A good Tony Abbott story is that early during his time as an MP, he did a…
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Boris & the nightmare of Lady MacStalin After Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former first minister, claimed his successor Nicola Sturgeon had…
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Ursula Fond o’ Lyin’ Odd policy choices continue to bedevil Boris Johnson’s government. Almost a year after Australia started putting…
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Brexit Boost for Boris Having won a thumping majority a year ago, Boris Johnson keeps squandering the early, widespread good…
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Europe’s woke Iron Curtain Who could have predicted that the gulf between Europe’s west and east would still be there…
Euro wuflu notes
Lonely Goatherd immunity While Australia has spent much of 2020 establishing Iron Curtain border regimes, Europe’s bewildering and ever-changing internal…
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Half-hearted Tory Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until…
China notes
Ducking Peking ASoviet-era joke had someone visiting the part of the commu- nist bureaucracy which issued permission to move your…
Trade notes
Boris picks a real Tory In his two years as prime minister, Tony Abbott achieved more to help Australia’s exporters…
Euro notes
How dangerous for Boris is Nigel? The first anniversary of Boris Johnson’s prime ministership didn’t bring him good news. Firstly,…
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How DFAT (yet again) let us down Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s robust initiative in leading the call for an independent…
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Two countries divided by a common pandemic In late 1970, British prime minister Ted Heath learnt that his Australian counterpart…
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Europe’s bogus bogeyman The coronavirus pandemic is proving a tough time for the Left. The all-consuming focus on a real…
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Tories in the time of Coronavirus Who would have thought until a few weeks ago that Boris Johnson’s success over…
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Auf Wiedersehen, Willkommenspolitik What a difference five years makes. In the European summer of 2015, a huge wave of illegal…
London notes
Drinking English champagne A visit to London to watch the end of Britain’s 47-year membership of the European project reveals…
So, how did I do?
Few tasks are more daunting than writing an election forecast which won’t appear in print until after the result; so…
England diary
In two recent visits to England, the ostensibly Conservative government has allowed the Extinction Rebellion extremists to shut down central…
Euro notes
Hungary rhapsody for Tony Abbott If only the voters of Warringah had been Hungarian. The land of goulash and paprika,…
Molotov’s poisonous cocktail
Yesterday’s 80th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the curtain-raiser for Hitler’s invasion of Poland a week later,…
