Europe’s rightward drift and the myth of backwards Britain
It is an idée fixe among British Europhiles that continental Europe is a progressive place firmly wedded to left-wing parties…
How much compensation should contaminated blood victims get?
The Financial Times estimated on 10 May that the impending compensation relating to the UK haemophilia treatment misadventure around 1980…
Erdogan’s debts are piling up
President Erdogan once again emerged victorious in Sunday’s presidential elections. In the highly contested race, he secured 52 per cent…
The next Chinese tech threat is already here
In recent years we’ve had fierce debates about the safety and security of Huawei, 5G, TikTok, semiconductors, ChatGPT and artificial…
The French academic paying a heavy price for probing the Muslim Brotherhood
Loitering by the entrance, I clock a large gentleman with tattoos crawling up his neck from underneath his collar. It’s…
Goodbye to WA’s worst ever Premier, Mark McGowan
Western Australia’s Labor Premier Mark McGowan has resigned after over six years and two months in the job. He said…
The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra
It’s the worst thing to happen to Cleopatra since that snake in the mausoleum. Queen Cleopatra is the second season…
The legal challenge to assisted suicide
Lonnie VanHook was preparing to board the train to Oregon when his body gave out. The Navy veteran is accustomed…
Are electric vehicles really the future?
It’s a cloudless spring day, made for a country drive. Chartreuse trees explode with pollen and glow to near neon.…
Misgendering is the new blasphemy
Events in the UK, where a Christian teacher has been sacked for misgendering a female student who now identifies as…
Renewables and rare earths: the virtuous ravishing of South Africa
South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions. It’s one of those headlines you read and assume the Babylon…
Why Erdogan won
This was supposed to be the year when Recep Erdogan would finally come to grief. Instead, he has defied the…
Who do you think you are?
The popular and long-running BBC/SBS program Who do you think you are? reaches back into written histories, stored documents, and family…
Alan Jones: Morrison’s comments on the Voice
Since he was beaten in the Federal election last year, Scott Morrison has been much maligned. In only his third…
Improve your writing to save our culture
A major theme of George Orwell’s 1984 is that the deterioration of language, or rendering words meaningless, makes people unable to think…
Cancelling our crucible day
Just one day is all most people want. One day to celebrate Australia. One day to say, as Nino Culotta…
The malign influence of Mermaids is becoming increasingly clear
While I was writing about the latest scandalous revelation involving the children’s charity Mermaids and the Tavistock Gender identity development service (GIDS)…
Diversity and inclusion doesn’t belong in the maths curriculum
In March, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) – an independent body which oversees standards and quality in UK…
Fixing food prices is a recipe for disaster
It wasn’t long ago that supermarkets stood accused of selling food too cheaply. Their price wars and two-for-the-price-of-one deals were…
US Marshals rescue 225 children from trafficking
Child trafficking is a scourge most consign to the third world, but it has become a serious issue for the…
Let’s call time on football’s absurd beer ban
When Qatar announced an alcohol ban at last year’s football World Cup, there was uproar. The decision, made public a…
‘I’m a singer, not a politician’: An interview with Ukraine’s Eurovision winner Jamala
Tucked in the margins of the recent Eurovision Song Contest was Jamala’s 30-second cameo of 1944, her winning song from…
The politician and the gulag
Lions International is an umbrella group for thousands of local Lions Clubs – of which I have recently become a…
Conservatives are blaming civil servants for their own failings
Conservatives are once again doing what they do best: whining. By ‘conservatives’, I don’t mean conservatives in any meaningful sense,…
It’s time the ABC was privatised
In my view, the ABC no longer provides news and current affairs content that is relevant to mainstream Australians. This…
