Repeating Turnbull’s blunder
Watching the Conservatives fall apart over leadership gives me uncanny déjà vu after Australian politics. In the last eight years, Australia has…
Expat diary
‘Oooo, Jer-emy Cor-byn. Oooo, Jer-emy Cor-byn,’ the cult-esque chant goes as we walk past. I’m marching with the LGBTories in…
The freedom conundrum
Recently I attended the Centre for Policy Studies’ Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security 2017 at the august Guildhall in the…
The left’s exotic Venezuelan romance meets reality
In London’s posh South Kensington on Sunday afternoon I witnessed anti and pro-Venezuelan government protests form outside the Venezuelan embassy.…
Senator’s inspirational first speech savages welfare traps
‘I remember the first time we found welfare money in our bank account shortly after our arrival in Australia,’ South Australian Senator Lucy…
Values matter in politics
One statistic is essential to understanding the shock British election result: the turnout by people aged 18 to 24. Since 1992 only…
You don’t argue with Ms 61 per cent
Malcolm Turnbull must be staring at UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s poll numbers with vaulting envy. The Britain Elects polling…
Campus censorship ratchets up
Free intellectual inquiry is under serious threat at universities across the Anglosphere. At the very places designed to inspire a battle of…
Censorship, trigger warnings and “free speech”: the National Union of Students meets
This week the rabble that is the National Union of Students will hold their annual National Conference in Geelong at Deakin…
Brexit means Brexit – and democracy, too
The stench of elite hatred for democracy is sifting through the streets of London. The courts have ruled against the…
The Greens soft drinks tax: illiberal, ineffective, regressive
This Greens’ proposed soft drink tax is not only an affront to individual choice, it would do little to address…
Campus Nazis
The Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) last week endorsed Israeli Apartheid Week, the annual campus event designed to delegitimise the…
Closing young minds
It was a typically chilly Melbourne afternoon when we arrived at the NAB building in Docklands to attend Christopher Pyne’s…
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