Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price speaks at the Mannkal Foundation’s Emerging Leaders event
Renowned Indigenous leader, activist, and politician, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, gave the keynote address for the Mannkal Foundation’s Annual Emerging…
Next week’s privileges committee could decide Boris’s fate
Boris Johnson was reselected on Thursday night as the Conservative candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. Yet the future…
There is no upside for Trump if he’s arrested
It’s getting Stormy for Donald Trump. In a lengthy message on his TruthSocial site on Saturday morning, Trump announced that…
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has restored my faith in Hollywood
A few years ago, if you were to tell me that a sequel story about a retired swashbuckling cartoon cat…
Changing tides: a return to Australia’s shipping industry
From 1851, paddle steamers could transport up to 2,000 bales of wool along the Murray River, with engines that were…
A new book and a newborn
One of the most famous lines from the classic 2002 romcom Sweet Home Alabama has leading lady Reese Witherspoon incredulously asking a…
Why the national divorce worked: a future history
The following is an excerpt from Yale University law professor Elizabeth Friedkin’s remarks to the 2026 International Federation of United…
Poland, 1968: the last pogrom
‘Are you Jewish?’ the officious-looking Dutch diplomat asked my dad. ‘Yes’, he said, realising at that very moment, everything had…
What can save Credit Suisse now?
It would be enough to buy Tesco twice over. Or Barclays, with almost enough change left over to buy Lloyds…
Make Sex Wild Again
The notorious Infowars host Alex Jones once opined that he didn’t like the government ‘putting chemicals in the water that…
Did Covid really originate in Wuhan’s seafood market?
There is new evidence pointing to the origin of Covid being in the seafood market in Wuhan. That, at least,…
A morally simplistic kids’ film: Extrapolations reviewed
We are all, of course, pretty well doomed. We know that because Al Gore told us so in his documentary…
Mental health: an anatomy of a very British crisis
No victory is ever final in politics – and the wrecking-ball of lockdowns seems to have destroyed all of the…
Is this the man who will one day take over from Putin?
Boris Ratnikov, a former KGB officer and retired chief advisor to Russia’s security service, gave a remarkable interview back in…
Was Leonardo da Vinci’s mother a slave?
There is great excitement in Italy, which has spilled over into the British press: Carlo Vecce, a professor from Naples,…
The ‘sham subculture’ sparking panic in the Kremlin
Their two countries may be at war, but Russian and Ukrainian police have a common and apparently formidable enemy. That…
OnlyFans: the last stop for Western feminism
Barely a day goes by without tabloid publications spruiking a ‘good news’ story about some poor, oppressed woman or D-grade…
Once upon a time
Once upon a time there lived a generation who believed they knew far more about the world than their elders…
Brown study
There is so much ill-informed commentary on the proposed Aboriginal Voice and whether it will generate divisive litigation, that it…
Australian notes
The announcement of the route we will take to acquire nuclear submarines is good only in parts. Down the road…
JFK knew what a woman is
Kennedy and I would agree on almost everything. Does that make him ‘hard right’?





