Why can’t the AfD work out where it stands on Europe?
Members of Germany’s AfD (Alternative fur Deutschland) party gathered in the eastern city of Magdeburg this weekend. The party’s aim…
Listen: Sunak hits back at BBC host over ‘private jet’ jibe
Rishi Sunak is up in Scotland today, hoping to woo voters with his plan to issue hundreds of new oil…
Britain’s nuclear test veterans are finally being remembered
Some wars get forgotten (viz Korea and Malaya); others are constantly refreshed in memory. As the manager of an Asian…
Unwelcome to Skybus
The least a passenger can expect from boarding a bus is that the bus company knows where you are departing…
Sunak’s mother-in-law has divided India with her views on spoons
Sudha Murty, the Indian billionaire and philanthropist, who also happens to be Rishi Sunak’s mother-in-law, has something of a fixation…
What if they lied? Reparations for the Climate Change scam at $300 trillion and counting
No one is quite sure how much public money has been sequestrated in the name of ‘Climate Change’, except that…
150 years since Gosse’s climb
July 20 marked 150 years since the first documented account of climbing Australia’s famous Ayers Rock. While climbing ‘The Rock’…
Labor’s destruction of the Victorian timber industry threatens forests
The accelerated destruction of the native timber industry in my home state of Victoria is a disgrace. This industry has…
Legalising Cannabis: evidence based or evidence bias?
‘An unexciting truth can easily be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.’ – Aldous Huxley Some of the most troubling experiences…
Albanese’s Voice tears the heart from Australian politics
It was W.B. Yeats, after the first world war, who wrote his poem that contained the phrase, ‘The centre cannot…
Backing motorists won’t save Rishi Sunak
The lesson from the Uxbridge by-election was clear to both parties: the public will not accept green policies at any…
Why Starmer is no heir to Blair
How big is a 20 point opinion poll lead and what word should we use to describe it – insurmountable,…
Rishi Sunak’s trade-off ideology
In his interview with the Sunday Telegraph proclaiming himself to be pro-car, Rishi Sunak made an interesting point: that this…
Why I’m romantic about climate change
Why hasn’t an anti-technology movement emerged? It seems to me that we face two overlapping crises. One is obviously climate…
Rain panel power: super energy or stupid energy?
The ‘green’ energy industry knows it’s in trouble. Wind is woefully unreliable, looks terrible, and is starting to get on…
Escaping the city in Argentina
Planning a foreign trip is a bit like watching a trailer for a film. The research is a preview of…
What does Japan make of Oppenheimer?
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster epic Oppenheimer is wowing critics and selling out cinemas across the world. It’s already threatening to eclipse…
The triumph of oil
If you want a laugh, I recommend an article which appeared in the March 1998 issue of Scientific American, ‘The…
The joy of rescuing snakes
Snake rescuers like me always get asked the same question: have you ever been bitten? I’ve dealt with mambas, giant…
The big Teal regret over wind farms: flattened rainforests and ruined coastlines
It was a joke when we said, ‘Why not put wind turbines on Bondi Beach and see how the Teals…
Private health is painfully slow
It started with an odd sensation in my leg as I ate chicken and leek pie in a Sydney CBD…
The bold, the brave, and the deported
The huge international military exercise Operation Talisman Sabre is underway in Australian waters (unfortunately with a tragic accident occurring yesterday)…
Braveheart re-emerges in Fiji
Experienced taxi drivers are a good sounding board regarding the state of a nation. After some years of assorted opinions…
In defence of the Arts Council
I once knew a monster who said she could not read Proust because there were no figures in Proust with…
Nigel Farage faces another media battle
It never stops for Nigel ‘Rocky’ Farage. Having seen off the chief executive of both NatWest and Coutts in successive…
