The politics of envy
One of the defining moments of the 2004 federal election was Mark Latham’s hit list of wealthy non-government schools and…
Our culture of cheapness and vulgarity
There are many things in short supply these days, but cheapness and vulgarity are not among them. They’re everywhere right…
The left’s strangled language on Israel and Gaza
As a left-wing sympathizer to the Palestinian cause, I cringed when I heard reports that college students around the country,…
Science is a political dystopia
There was a time when science was seen as the domain of the nerdy few. When the topic of careers…
Why shouldn’t the British Museum take BP’s cash?
Three cheers for the British Museum, which has just announced a new £50 million sponsorship deal with the oil giant BP.…
Sunak gets tetchy during Rwanda and Israel grilling
If Rishi Sunak still doesn’t recognise the description of himself as ‘tetchy’, then he could do worse than to watch…
The looming Lenin comeback
The year 2024 marks the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. In April of that year, the consummate communist, having blighted…
This transgender schools guidance leaves a lot to be desired
The government has finally published its transgender guidance for schools. Teachers have been waiting a long time. We were promised…
Liz Truss leads backlash to schools trans guidance
The government’s guidance for schools on transgender pupils was finally published this morning – prompting an immediate backlash which demonstrated…
The Ministry of Justice is engaged in historical vandalism
This week, the Ministry of Justice launched a consultation on its plan to digitise its vast archive of wills. The…
The Pope’s pursuit of relevance is embarrassingly outdated
The Pope is old and unwell. In whatever time he has left, he surveys his years as pontiff and counts…
The CofE’s same sex blessings stance is even more illogical than the Vatican’s
Traditionalists in the Church of England and the Catholic church don’t, of course, always see eye to eye. But on…
Bring back schmaltzy songs
Christmas pop song lyrics play by different rules. Children, food and family togetherness are never mentioned in pop songs from…
‘Little Bird Bookshop… You can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’
I had arrived at work on what I hoped would be one of the three busiest Saturdays of the year…
Weather apocalypse-mongering has endangered Queenslanders
You hear plenty of strange things when you work in retail, but I can’t forget the afternoon I received an…
How Britain failed Jimmy Lai
There is something shameful about the government’s reluctance to publicly call for the release of Jimmy Lai, a British citizen…
Is identity politics to blame for the rise of anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is surging among the young. It is now positively hip to view Jews as ‘problematic’. Consider the recent Harvard/Harris…
A Trump presidency could be good for Britain
Donald Trump may be offensive in many ways. He may have defiled his office during his previous stint as president…
Michelle Mone hits back at Sunak
‘When you’re in a hole, stop digging.’ It’s a famous mantra known to all; everyone that is, except for Michelle…
The meaning of Javier Milei
Libertarian economist Javier Milei’s smashing landslide victory is the most radical thing to happen to Argentina in decades. But his…
Zucked up: private election funding’s new form
Greenwich, Connecticut, is a town of 63,000 people just twenty-eight miles away from New York City. It’s a wealthy community…
Victoria: rotten to the core
The evidence is in. Victoria’s public service has become massively politicised, confirming what many suspected after nine years of Labor…
Albanese government: highest taxing since 1959!
What I’m about to say is probably not fair, but I’ll say it anyway. When working in party politics, you…
The ABC: answerable to no one
Ad nauseam! That’s the constancy of calls for the ABC to be shut down, privatised, or restructured. The first two…
Nikki Haley’s popularity is probably because of media desperation
Nikki Haley is now the favourite ‘not Donald Trump’ candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.…
