Michael de Percy

What’s happening in Korea?

7 December 2024 9:45 am

I love the Republic of Korea. It is a country I can visit over and over without ever tiring of…

Dear Mr Dutton, we want something else (with love from Barcelona)

30 November 2024 9:37 am

From Barcelona: It’s hard to escape Australian politics when I see examples of inaction all over the Iberian Peninsula. The…

Madrid’s bullfighting triumphs over ‘eating ze bugs’

24 November 2024 9:20 am

From Madrid: Madrid is better than Paris. That’s my advertising slogan for this great city. Instead of Midnight in Paris,…

Portugal’s national identity is forged through individual bravery, not identity politics

17 November 2024 8:46 am

From Lisbon: Portugal, a seafaring nation, pioneered the Age of Discovery and the exploration of the New World. Synonymous with…

Trump vs Albo the Unready, but what will Dutton do?

9 November 2024 9:50 pm

Donald Trump’s landslide election win is likely to give the Republicans a majority on every measure of electoral success with…

Trump’s win means we’ve narrowly avoided war

6 November 2024 8:18 pm

There is little doubt that the US is the mightiest military power in human history. At a time when Australia’s…

Albo’s flight upgrade saga reflects self-entitlement culture

1 November 2024 2:58 pm

We are living in an age of self-entitlement. Former AFR columnist Joe Aston’s ‘story about power in the shadows’ has…

Land tax is socialist and should be banned

23 October 2024 12:43 pm

Stamp duty makes it more difficult to purchase a home. Not only does it increase the initial outlay required, but…

It will take more than hot air to fix Labor’s renewables woes

20 October 2024 10:07 am

The wheels are falling off Mr Bowen’s energy policy as the Albanese government heads downhill like an out-of-control billy cart.…

Albo the Appeaser talks out of both sides of his mouth

10 October 2024 11:54 am

Reflecting on the Conservative Political Action Conference 2024 in Brisbane last weekend, I realised something the left can never comprehend.…

Australia must do some of the heavy lifting against terrorism

2 October 2024 12:07 pm

With domestic politics seeming to pander to those in our country who wave Hezbollah flags, our foreign policy is an…

Buyer beware as Bowen ‘models’ energy bills again

23 September 2024 7:13 pm

Anyone following Energy Minister Chris Bowen on X would know that Peter Dutton is living rent-free in the minister’s head.…

The Greens’ housing delusion

17 September 2024 2:00 am

There is nothing better than living in your own home. Even with a mortgage, being able to be the king…

The RBA is doing its job, so don’t shoot the messenger

10 September 2024 12:22 am

People love to hate the RBA at the moment. Along with unnecessarily high energy and grocery bills, mortgage repayments are…

Dutton cleanses NSW Liberal temple just in time

3 September 2024 11:03 pm

From the early days of federal politics in Australia, conservatives have been split over issues such as free trade versus…

Masculinity is not toxic

2 September 2024 2:05 am

Violence against women and children is never acceptable, no matter who the perpetrator. Bill Shorten, in an interesting piece in…

Beware the infiltration of ‘pocket socialism’

26 August 2024 11:54 pm

Have you ever noticed pockets of socialism appearing in our society? I refer to identity politics practices that infiltrate our…

Labor’s recession we didn’t have to have

20 August 2024 8:11 pm

Federal spending is set to increase to its highest level since the mid-1980s, pandemic spending aside, at 26.6 per cent…

‘Breaking’ news: our constitutional monarchy wins gold!

14 August 2024 2:30 am

Australia’s constitutional monarchy is one of the most modern forms of liberal democracy. And despite all the embarrassment from a…

Next time, the French Wokerati should fight their own wars

9 August 2024 12:15 am

The mainstream media is shoving the Paris Olympics down our throats. But like many other Australians, I want nothing to…

Time for tough love or Australia will go to the dogs

29 July 2024 2:00 am

From Thimphu, Bhutan: To ‘go to the dogs’ is an idiom that means an organisation or a country is ‘deteriorating…

Don’t kowtow to useful idiots, and say no to a republic

27 July 2024 6:17 pm

So, our young people are increasingly in favour of a republic? Help them pack for the Democratic Republic of Korea,…

The Coalition must follow Trump’s lead

22 July 2024 1:27 pm

Populists represent the forgotten people

Trump and Vance will pull the socialist wool from our eyes

17 July 2024 2:10 am

For several years the focus of leftist academics, and even some Western security agencies, has been on right-wing extremism. Many…

Great Labor Split II: Albo’s succumbing to socialist dilemmas

11 July 2024 2:00 am

The Great Labor Split of 1955 stemmed from theoretical dilemmas that have always haunted the Western left’s fragmented socialism. 70…