Australia’s distant thunder

14 December 2025 1:02 pm

Would Canberra march to Europe’s drums?

Egypt’s blind spot

14 December 2025 12:41 pm

The role Cairo played in making Gaza’s war possible

Trump for dummies

14 December 2025 11:20 am

Misunderstanding Trump is an existential threat to Australia

Nature positive (?)

14 December 2025 10:43 am

A triumph of regulation pretending to be conservation

Gen Z can’t cope with the real world

14 December 2025 12:13 am

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

13 December 2025 10:00 pm

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

13 December 2025 10:00 pm

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

13 December 2025 6:00 pm

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?

13 December 2025 5:05 pm

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’?

13 December 2025 5:00 pm

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

13 December 2025 4:52 pm

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

13 December 2025 4:15 pm

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?

13 December 2025 4:15 pm

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?

13 December 2025 4:01 pm

‘Full steam ahead’: That was the verdict on the Aukus alliance from Defence Secretary John Healey after the United States…

Snow job

13 December 2025 9:00 am

Australia’s so-called transition to renewables has been one long deception built on lies, falsehoods, hoaxes and scams. For those of…

Australian Diary

13 December 2025 9:00 am

An operation has transformed the way I hear English,  just in time for Christmas. So many phrases so right for…

A Traveller’s tales

13 December 2025 9:00 am

Onerous red tape is killing the magic of movie-making

Australian Notes

13 December 2025 9:00 am

I only had one wish to Santa this Christmas. All I wanted was a Cop. I wanted Adelaide to win…

The name’s Allan, James Allan

13 December 2025 9:00 am

Never say ‘passed’

Gallows state

13 December 2025 9:00 am

The world remains silent to Iran’s horror regime

Fictionomics Awards

13 December 2025 9:00 am

Our festive prize for mathematical misinformation

Tucker Qatarlson’s Christmas carol

13 December 2025 9:00 am

Not odd of God to choose the Jooz, his son was one

Travels in Transylvania

13 December 2025 9:00 am

A land our King, descended from Dracula, says he ‘has a stake in’

Bring on 2026!

13 December 2025 9:00 am

2025 was a year best forgotten

The grift that keeps on grifting

13 December 2025 9:00 am

Bowen goes international