Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes
If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…
What liberal America gets wrong about Trump supporters
Hillary Clinton normally speaks in carefully crafted bromides, so when I read in the New York Post about her risqué suggestion during…
Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia
With the Voice Referendum ‘done’, it’s now both possible and necessary to recognise and understand the broader ‘revolutionary’ agenda that…
Netanyahu has good reasons to delay the ground invasion of Gaza
Israel has called in more than 300,000 reservists in the 17 days since Hamas’s monstrous attack on 7 October. Many…
A tinderbox of incompetence
For a decade, the Victorian government-owned forestry controller VicForests has been a tinderbox of incompetence looking for a match. Gifted…
Summer madness in Helsinki
“For the bravest in the group. Exit Flow from the back.” “We’ve found it. It is insane.” “This is the…
Nasty weather: renewable energy poses a national security threat
The least efficient way to handle energy is to store it. Imagine a bucket with a mosquito net for a…
The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot
I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications…
Are Amazon’s publishing gurus doing anything wrong?
Alex Kaplo lives, apparently, the life of Riley. The 31-year-old’s website shows him roaring around in a Mercedes, and he…
The taxman’s dodgy data
Ten years ago, HMRC unveiled what was billed as ‘the biggest change’ to the tax system since PAYE began in…
We have a big problem
The tantrum of the ‘Yes’ campaign and its supporters following their referendum loss is symptomatic of a class of people…
Crisis of soul: moral relativism and the modern university
Alan Bloom, perhaps modern education’s greatest post-war critic, wrote presciently on Western elites’ decaying moral and intellectual fibre. Bloom’s 1987…
Britain needs to rethink devolution
Scotland is stuck. This week has only confirmed it. SNP leader Humza Yousaf used his party conference in Aberdeen to…
The madness of Net Zero
How crazy has the world become? What we are watching is the most insane delusion faced by humankind. To believe…
Lost in Translation was Tokyo at its bizarre, dislocating best
You can wait ages for a Japan themed Hollywood film and then three come at once. In an odd spasm…
The Age of Audits
Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…
Why Angela McLean’s ‘Dr Death’ jibe matters
Does it matter if the chief scientific adviser referred to Rishi Sunak as ‘Dr Death’ In a private message to…
What Liz Truss did next
It was a year ago on Wednesday that Liz Truss left office. As the ministerial cavalcade rolled out of Downing…
AI will destroy TV news
As we all know, the last few days have been filled with terrible news out of Israel and Gaza, and…
Why the kids hate Jews
The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will…
The Tory war on woke won’t work
Visibly desperate Conservatives are counting on their opposition to the left’s cultural revolution to save them, if not from defeat,…
Time to punish the Big End of town?
Australia’s Big End of Town gambled heavily in the Voice Cup. They lost. Only the Nanny ‘State’ (Canberra) voted ‘Yes’,…
Belgium’s cowardice is preventing it from tackling its terror threat
Last year, a French broadcaster asked if Belgium was in danger of becoming a narco state. The question was posed…
Our enemy, the government
The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny…
Jihad chanters let off by the Met
Oh dear. It seems that the wokest police force in all the West has done it again. In the past…
