Beating butter to death

24 July 2023 5:39 pm

Footage of an ‘artist’ kneeling on the ground whilst beating a slab of butter to death with a power cord…

WA backlash against Aboriginal Heritage Laws favours Liberals

24 July 2023 1:15 pm

Voter fury over heritage laws smashes Cook as Labor left reeling in post-McGowan era, or so went the subheading on…

Teachers cannot teach what they do not know

24 July 2023 5:00 am

Well, here we are with another review of teaching. Australia has itself a bit of déjà vu with a well-meaning…

The $10 billion cabal of renewable subsidies killing coal

24 July 2023 4:30 am

At this time, the attack on fossil fuels, particularly coal, is at a crescendo. In North America with the dishonestly…

Book reviews: the new parental activism

24 July 2023 4:15 am

Outrage from parents and citizens last week saw a children’s book Welcome to Sex! pulled from the shelves of select…

Robodebt scandal: Parliament needs to take charge of the bureaucracy

24 July 2023 4:00 am

It appears the Robodebt scandal is being used for gutter political point-scoring. But what’s new about that? Every side in…

Targeting Odesa marks a new turn in the war

23 July 2023 8:37 pm

The world is waking up to pictures of fresh destruction in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, which has been…

Going soft on Net Zero could save Rishi Sunak

23 July 2023 6:19 pm

The Tory green brigade now tends to be heavily concentrated in the House of Lords, where Zac Goldsmith recently joined…

Could Ulez lead to Sadiq Khan’s downfall?

23 July 2023 6:11 pm

Emmanuel Macron has spoken of his fear of France’s ‘fragmentation’ and of the nation’s ‘division’ following the riots that reduced…

The truth about the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge

23 July 2023 5:03 pm

The ingloriously-named Bibby Stockholm has weighed anchor in Dorset’s Portland harbour to a storm of protest. The vessel is intended…

Coutts’ apology to Nigel Farage is worthless

23 July 2023 3:10 pm

Remember when Coutts was worried about risking its reputation? We’ll call it ‘karma’ that their name hangs in shreds, draped…

The once and future president?

23 July 2023 10:23 am

Donald Trump is having a better year than Joe Biden, notwithstanding an indictment or two. Both men hold commanding leads…

Misandrist Barbie

23 July 2023 8:17 am

I must take my hat off to the marketing team at Warner Bros. who managed to fool us into thinking…

Review: the courage to care

23 July 2023 4:30 am

We hear little about the Holocaust in Hungary. In a murderous 56-day period in Hungary during 1944, some 430,000 Hungarian…

The broken logic of a champagne socialist

23 July 2023 4:00 am

The hypocrisy of the hard-Left centres around being tricked by lofty arguments made by agenda-driven powerbrokers. These ideas are devoid…

Watch: Stonewall chair grilled on transgender issues

23 July 2023 12:32 am

It’s been a difficult time for the gay rights charity Stonewall. Chief Executive Nancy Kelley is due to leave her…

Igor Girkin’s arrest was a long time coming

22 July 2023 11:36 pm

With the reported arrest on Friday of Igor Girkin (aka ‘Strelkov’ or ‘Igor the Terrible’) the career of one of…

Rage against the baseball machine

22 July 2023 8:06 pm

In a lifetime of attending perhaps a thousand professional baseball games, all but ten or so in the minor leagues…

Will Sunak and Starmer now ditch their green promises?

22 July 2023 7:45 pm

Where do the by-election results leave Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer? The Labour leader had been hoping for a victory…

Sadiq Khan should reconsider imposing Ulez on outer London

22 July 2023 7:05 pm

That the Conservatives retained the west London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, albeit by a whisker, has been put…

How Spain’s politics succumbed to radicalism

22 July 2023 5:00 pm

If Spain’s left-wing government loses tomorrow’s general election, thousands of people including many senior civil servants stand to lose their…

Falklanders won’t forgive the EU’s ‘Las Malvina’ blunder

22 July 2023 4:47 pm

This week, the European Union, in its infinite wisdom, made pretty much the only blunder which, in the eyes of Falkland Islanders, there…

Just Stop Oil told to ‘just p- off’ by pranksters

22 July 2023 3:56 pm

‘Disrupt’ has been the mantra of environmental movements for a long time, upscaled considerably by Extinction Rebellion, an outfit that…

Chalumbin, the New Franklin

22 July 2023 9:00 am

Four decades after the battle for the Franklin Dam, a contest between nature and industry is underway in the high…

Brown study

22 July 2023 9:00 am

One of the many issues that people have difficulty understanding about the Aboriginal Voice is whether it will lead to…