Frosty relations
Treasurer Jim Chalmers made a song and dance about Antarctic investment earlier in December, obscuring the deteriorating situation in Australia’s…
Zohran Mamdani begins radicalizing New York
The radicals are now in charge of NYC. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has unveiled his transition team and voters who agreed…
How Russia’s National Guard may stymie the latest Ukraine plan
One of the crucial obstacles to a Ukraine peace deal appears to be Vladimir Putin’s demand for the remaining fifth…
The care system isn’t built for Afghan teenagers
The sentencing this week of Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa…
Pablo Escobar’s hippos are saving Colombia’s wetlands
In Colombia’s enormous Magdalena River basin, an ecological anomaly has triggered an extraordinary debate among ecologists. Ought some invasive species…
The story of the Battle of Blood River
Johannesburg, the wealthiest city in Africa and home to more than 12,000 millionaires is about to become a ghost town.…
The long, awful shadow of the siege of Sarajevo
They call them the roses of Sarajevo: scars ripping through the concrete and painted red, marking where an artillery round…
Gen Z can’t cope with the real world
Everyone recognises that teenagers today are unduly anxious. Many people attribute this to a rise in smartphone use. Some even…
How the ‘deep state’ enabled Epstein to operate
How do characters like Jeffrey Epstein come about, really? One way to find out is to read his emails, 20,000…
Scotland offers myths, legends and bespoke textile designs
As part of the planning for a retreat I’m organizing in May, I recently visited Scotland. I spent time near…
Putin moves troops into Trump’s backyard
Clandestine US military forces are not the only foreign military troops operating in Venezuela. Russia has quietly dispatched military advisors…
How candid is King Charles being about his cancer treatment?
The news that King Charles’s cancer treatment will be moving into a new phase as of next year is undeniably…
Why does Trump care about Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’?
In Ukraine, as elsewhere in Europe, Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is being met with a mixture of incredulity…
Primal Scream’s Nazi Star of David stunt is unforgivable
It’s hard, in 2025, to call out anti-Semitism. You’ll find yourself besieged by digital armies of apologists for bigotry. ‘It’s…
How terror triumphed at the Christmas market
Mulled wine and Heckler & Koch assault rifles don’t belong together, except in Christmas films like Die Hard. Festive visitors to…
What happened to the Oxford interview?
This week, there’s a strange absence in Oxford. For years, in December, you’d suddenly see a strange invasion of the…
Can Britain afford Aukus?
‘Full steam ahead’: That was the verdict on the Aukus alliance from Defence Secretary John Healey after the United States…
Snow job
Australia’s so-called transition to renewables has been one long deception built on lies, falsehoods, hoaxes and scams. For those of…
Australian Diary
An operation has transformed the way I hear English, just in time for Christmas. So many phrases so right for…
Australian Notes
I only had one wish to Santa this Christmas. All I wanted was a Cop. I wanted Adelaide to win…
