This is not what it seems

23 December 2025 1:40 am

Australia does not have a Jewish problem. It has a problem with how a confident society protects its citizens when…

David Walliams’s children’s books were pure slop

23 December 2025 1:10 am

Harper Collins announced last week that it would no longer be publishing any children’s books by their one-time cash cow…

The Star of David and the ‘True Blue’ Christmas

23 December 2025 1:00 am

The Star of David is, without doubt the most well-recognised symbol for modern-day Judaism. The two interlocking triangles forming a…

The economic purge of the young white male

22 December 2025 11:06 pm

I can remember when I first realized that something strange was happening to white men in Hollywood. It was around…

How Britain can take on the Islamist threat 

22 December 2025 10:45 pm

I am writing this article from abroad because I do not currently feel safe in Britain, the country of my…

Would promising to rejoin the EU save Labour?

22 December 2025 10:14 pm

Could Labour, under a new leader, go into the next election with a manifesto promising to start negotiations to rejoin…

Ideology, the curse of our era

22 December 2025 9:34 pm

It is difficult to write about tragedies that take away innocent lives and affect countless others. Perpetrated by the few,…

How a late lunch can save Britain

22 December 2025 8:18 pm

Britain doesn’t have a productivity problem. We have a productivity mystery. The financial crisis was 17 years ago but still…

Bondi Beach and Australia’s failed multiculturalism

22 December 2025 7:55 pm

I knew two of the people murdered at Bondi Beach. That beach has always felt like Australia distilled: sun-bleached, open,…

It’s hard to take the Palestine Action hunger strikers seriously

22 December 2025 5:44 pm

The phrase ‘the silly led by the sinister’ was originally used by the late, singularly great Christopher Hitchens to describe…

What they don’t tell you about Christmas in New Zealand

22 December 2025 5:00 pm

‘I still think New Zealand the most beautiful country I have ever seen,’ Agatha Christie marvelled in 1922. Evidently she’s…

Death at Christmas

22 December 2025 5:00 pm

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those…

Quebec is trying to ban Jesus from Christmas

22 December 2025 5:00 pm

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – but not, sadly, in Quebec. Or at least that’s what the provincial…

America is increasingly worried about free speech in the UK

22 December 2025 4:00 pm

Of the many political headaches Keir Starmer does not need right now, further American warnings that Britain is suppressing speech…

When light meets darkness

22 December 2025 10:13 am

Australia’s security blind spot

Feeling unwelcome in my country

22 December 2025 8:00 am

I am feeling increasingly unwelcome in the country of my birth, as I am subjected to ubiquitous welcomes to and…

Banning trail hunting is part of Labour’s endless culture war

22 December 2025 5:09 am

If you actually wanted to create a law that would genuinely transform animal welfare in the UK, the sane approach…

Australia’s managed fragmentation

22 December 2025 1:00 am

We cannot allow the state to believe Australians accept censorship in exchange for safety

Savage words, savage deeds

21 December 2025 11:53 pm

Locally sourced ranting is a problem. This is where a particular subject – say the current US President – leads…

There’s nothing Christian about trapping people on benefits

21 December 2025 9:10 pm

What in Heaven’s name should we do about the benefit bill? And what on earth can be done about it? Both…

The Bazball experiment has failed

21 December 2025 8:10 pm

England’s cricketers have lost the Ashes, after being defeated in the third Test match in Adelaide by 82 runs. The…

What winning the Ashes means for Australia

21 December 2025 6:55 pm

This has been a week when Australia could no longer deny the dark stain of anti-Semitism on our national soul.…

My Christmas round robin

21 December 2025 5:00 pm

Happy Holidays, friends. Think about that word for a moment. Hold it in your sacred space. Surely that’s what the Holidays…

How sustainability stole Christmas

21 December 2025 5:00 pm

The glitz and glow of the Christmas period, from gently twinkling lights to the fireworks of New Year, is something…

Why weren’t the grooming gangs treated as race-hate crimes?

21 December 2025 5:00 pm

After months of turmoil, the chair and the terms of reference of the government’s national grooming gangs inquiry have at…