Flat White

In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

International law and the attempt to cage the beast

6 January 2026 12:31 pm

This is not law. It is diplomacy with paperwork...

The wrong stuff!

6 January 2026 12:00 pm

Albo’s stitching is undone, and his fluff is showing

Operation Enduring Farage

6 January 2026 10:38 am

Why an American liberation of Britain would be greeted with tea, scones, and bunting

Menzies the architect

5 January 2026 6:29 pm

A blueprint for 21st Century Australia

The origin of Islamic militancy

5 January 2026 4:39 pm

What is it about Islam that motivates so many shocking attacks on Jews, Christians, and the Western world? Following the…

The gentleman chef Anton Mosimann’s delicious collection

5 January 2026 4:02 pm

Anton Mosimann unlocks his safe, delicately removing the oldest known cookbook, handwritten on velum in 1516 for the Vatican’s library.…

Venezuela is finally free

4 January 2026 2:55 pm

A crisis that began when I was still living in Latin America a quarter of a century ago has, at…

Woke robbed the West of its artistic soul

4 January 2026 12:56 pm

Stranger Things reaffirms modern showrunners can’t stick the landing

Khamenei’s banners are burning in Tehran

3 January 2026 11:53 pm

The people of Iran have been trying to free themselves from the oppressive Islamic Republic for decades. Tonight, hundreds of…

President Maduro of Venezuela captured by US

3 January 2026 10:01 pm

‘The tyrant is gone. He will now – finally – face justice.’

Decline and ‘fall’ of a failed Prime Minister

3 January 2026 8:15 pm

The fear of the Jewish community was palpable in the lead-up to Bondi

Distortion of the Iranian people’s voice

3 January 2026 6:04 pm

The Iranian people are openly calling for Reza Shah II

New York is now the most idiotic city in the world

3 January 2026 10:29 am

The newly elected mayor of the once-great metropolis of New York City has used his maiden speech to declare that…

Can Iran be saved from the Islamic Republic?

3 January 2026 10:18 am

Traders and merchants in Tehran closed their shops in protest and demonstrated against the deteriorating economy and the plunging Iranian…

Make Sydney and Melbourne city-states

2 January 2026 12:53 pm

How else are we going to save New South Wales and Victoria?

Between extremes

2 January 2026 10:00 am

Reclaiming the middle ground in Australian public policy

Long live the trolls

2 January 2026 9:57 am

Renewable energy advocates cannot be cured by logic, facts, or debate

One God, one people

2 January 2026 1:00 am

Or endless fragmentation?

The worst-case scenario for the ordinary man in 2026

1 January 2026 10:18 pm

Charles Dickens opened his timeless novel, set in the era of the French Revolution, with a paradox that echoes through…

Why a Royal Commission will fail

1 January 2026 8:54 pm

In the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, as victims’ families and Jewish organisations demand assurances from the Australian…

Between 2025 and 1984: A year in review

1 January 2026 2:00 am

The country is utterly fed up

The state’s New Year’s wish

1 January 2026 1:00 am

When nothing is sacred, everything becomes negotiable

Young Australians should travel instead of going to Woke universities

1 January 2026 1:00 am

From Düsseldorf: On hearing that a decade’s worth of university dropouts will be awarded a qualification at a Victorian university,…

When a society stops having children

31 December 2025 3:53 pm

Australia has one of the lowest fertility rates in its history

Bondi bloodshed

31 December 2025 3:32 pm

Why Labor must face a Royal Commission