One queer story at a time
These days, no self-respecting writers festival is complete without four woke essentials; an LGBQTI+ session, a climate change group therapy…
What comes after the Voice?
Voice architects who think the ‘No’ campaign has tapped into a ‘deep well of racism’ could not be further from…
Australia’s worker shortage crisis: a handbrake on economic growth
It has become clear since the release of the federal government’s much-touted Employment White Paper that there is no comprehensive…
Rishi the revolutionary? Come off it
It was preposterous. A prime minister at the head of a party that’s been running the country for 13 years…
Laurence Fox: sacrificed to the gods of eco-fascism
The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist…
Rishi Sunak’s exam shake-up doesn’t add up
After 13 years in power, the Conservatives have decided to rebrand themselves as the ‘party of change’. Today, Rishi Sunak…
The many flaws in Sunak’s smoking wheeze
In the run-up to the Conservative party conference, Rishi Sunak was promoting himself as a serious politician who wanted workable…
The Hateful Eight hand the House to the Democrats
In Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, a posse of violent ne’er-do-wells forced by circumstance into a house together descend, through…
GB News sack Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson
It’s been a mixed fortnight of fortunes for GB News. Their party at Tory conference attracted a galaxy of right-wing…
BLM Bambi?
It was the shot heard around the world. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was curled up on…
Is Mitt Romney behind Akshata Murthy’s appearance?
Is Akshata Murthy using the Ann Romney playbook? Rishi Sunak’s wife made an unexpected appearance on the main stage at…
Full text: Rishi Sunak’s Tory conference speech
Thank you, Akshata, for that introduction, and thank you for always being there for me. My wife: truly the best…
Can Sunak really cast himself as the enemy of the status quo?
Rishi Sunak today revealed a new enemy that he’s defining himself against: ‘the 30-year status quo’. Why this period? Because…
What hath Matt Gaetz wrought by tipping over the House apple cart?
What’s worse than chaos? How about a power vacuum? All the beautiful people are bewailing the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker…
Rishi Sunak’s conference speech gamble
After spending most of his conference refusing to say much at all, Rishi Sunak used his speech to make three…
Rishi Sunak vows to end the ‘30-year status quo’ in Tory conference speech
Rishi Sunak pitched himself as the change candidate at the next election in his speech to Conservative party conference this…
Sunak’s smoking ban is a terrible policy
What, you might ask, has Rishi Sunak been smoking? There is no way to spin as conservative the idea of…
The Republican party is a mess
In comparison to the Republicans in the United States, the British Conservative party is a model of unity and discipline.…
Overseas prisons will be disastrous for British inmates
Our prisons are overcrowded, dangerous and out of control. The prison population is rising faster than we can build new…
Why does the BBC think we need a Today programme podcast?
Is there really room in the crowded market for a new podcast about politics, presented by two male Oxbridge graduates?…
Three strikes for the Yes23 campaign
The Australian Electoral Commission’s Twitter account has made for interesting reading in the lead-up to the Voice referendum. The social…
Matt Gaetz pulls the fire alarm
Matt Gaetz pulled the alarm but, unlike the stunt by fellow House member Jamaal Bowman, there really was a fire.…
Kevin McCarthy ousted as US Speaker
Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as the House speaker after losing a vote 216-210, becoming the first speaker ever to lose…
Matt Gaetz catches the car
An admission of personal bias: I have little to no respect for academics or intellectuals who write about the Congress…
