Guest notes
Conservative notes
James Allan and Chris Kenny are wrong Conservatives have long, and rightly, been wary of legislating for human rights—seeing all…
All Hallow’s notes
The spooky science of transgenderism Halloween, witches and bearded women. The witches’ scene in Macbeth invites a transgender reading, where…
Cultural notes
Swimming in the Twitterverse What even is Twitter? Speaking as a creature who evolved in its depths, I feel a…
Democratic Notes
Let’s start with the usual disclaimers. Neither Donald Trump nor Boris Johnson are ideal leaders or paragons of virtue. And…
China notes
Age of appeasement We can be thankful to the Hong Kong protesters for highlighting the moral conflict at the heart…
Brexit notes
Sent naked to the negotiating table The British public are absolutely fed up with Brexit. But not for the reasons…
Unneighbourly notes
More than 20 years of living in Australia has caused me to think that most Australians may now never really…
University notes
Campus meltdown? Blame les marxistes! Australians have a utilitarian political culture and a talent for bureaucracy. Politicians rarely engage in…
Intolerant notes
Forcing people to fake respect for your choices is dangerous Pretty much everyone these days sees himself or herself as…
Euro notes
Hungary rhapsody for Tony Abbott If only the voters of Warringah had been Hungarian. The land of goulash and paprika,…
India notes
A new golden age built with Australian coal Thanks to the British Raj, English has many words of Indian heritage.…
Energy notes
LNG is the new coal With the media spotlight focussed on activists, the Greens and even Pacific nations complaining about…
Gender notes
A new form of child abuse? In early May I wrote on the work of Professor John Whitehall, Chair of…
Gender notes
The trouble with a double-X rating Having worked across several professions, started and run four successful businesses and having a…
Cricket notes
It was the claim of one of my past editors – Jenny Naipaul – during my 11 years of writing…
Canadian notes
I’m a virtue-signaller and I’m OK We have left Britain behind on this year-long sabbatical and are now in my…
Dis-con notes
Wrong way, go back My last Dis-Con Note (‘Watching and hoping, Mr Morrison’, 13/07/19) pointed out that, despite his ‘miracle’…
Euronotes
Re-stocking the knacker’s yard If there is an Englishman more hated by the European establishment than Boris Johnson, it’s Nigel…
ABC notes
Not the 7 o’clock news – brought to you by ‘their’ ABC Is the nation getting good value for the…
Dis-con notes
Watching and hoping, Mr Morrison With our post-election parliament finally operative, what can we now expect from the new…
Euronotes
The hybrid Boris Johnson How is it that the likeable Boris Johnson has become such a hate-figure? The British Left…
American notes
Impeach Trump! (yawn) I suppose it is necessary to say – again – that it is not necessary to like…
Fair notes
In the land of the so-called ‘fair go’ it comes as no surprise that the words ‘fair’ and ‘fairer’ seemed…
European notes
Inside the knacker’s yard Why should we care about the European Union’s elections? The most famous thing about the European…
Liberal Notes
Why we won
