The coercive control con job
Tomorrow, when NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman visits early voting centres in his local electorate, he’ll be in for an…
Alan Jones: Perrottet’s spending spree fails our children
Either the media in NSW have gone to sleep, or I am inhabiting another planet. I worked for a Liberal…
Boris gets a boost as local Tories reselect him
It’s a big week for Boris Johnson as he prepares to give evidence before the Privileges Committee next Wednesday. So…
Contra the hawks, Biden’s defense budget keeps ballooning
This week we heard a lot about AUKUS, a trilateral initiative between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia that will…
The Voice: undermining democracy and empowering the elite
A constitutionally enshrined uniquely Aboriginal organisation will do nothing to solve the ongoing problems of marginalisation and social dysfunction in…
Joe Biden’s Medicare tweak throws his party to the wolves
President Biden has been clear: he’s itching to attack Republicans for “wanting to cut Medicare.” But he’s running into a…
Memes: the road to collectivism
As politics becomes increasingly polarised, policymakers are no longer focused on giving voters what they want, but on making voters…
The fallacy of equity: South Africa’s warning to the West
What do rolling blackouts, public disorder, and impending societal collapse in South Africa, have to do with the contemporary preoccupations…
The trouble with sex education
Drawing penises and making vulvas out of Play-Doh might not be the reply most parents expect when they pose the…
Is Rishi Sunak really Enoch Powell in disguise?
It may seem like a bizarre question but it’s the one that is obsessing much of the left: is Rishi…
Is Taiwan’s support really ebbing away?
Taiwan has lost another friend. Or at least it soon will, according to the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro. She…
How Justin Trudeau’s government was compromised by the CCP
Justin Trudeau’s government has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and Canada’s democracy is in jeopardy. This is a startling…
Is it curtains for the Conservatives?
Can the Conservatives do it again? The Tories have won four elections in a row but face a struggle to…
Calling it what it is: voluntary assisted tragedy
Canada’s government has been tussling with the idea of providing voluntary euthanasia for those with mental health issues. This poses…
Masking science with politics in the Covid era
The release of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages in the ‘Lockdown files’ has been an eye-opener for many who are now…
Super betrayal: it’s not a tax on the rich, it’s a tax on the young
Throughout my twenty years as a financial planner, a frequent objection to my strategies is, ‘I don’t trust super’. The proposed…
The fanatical foot soldiers of feminism
So, another International Women’s Day has come and gone, and the usual plethora of dubious statistics, socialist ideology, and tendentious…
Jeremy Hunt’s crafty Budget spells trouble for Labour
Jeremy Hunt was designed to exclude unnecessary body movements. Tall and gaunt, his demeanour faintly bird-like, he worked through his…
The Budget in twelve graphs
Jeremy Hunt has just delivered his second Budget as Chancellor. The top message the Chancellor wants to push is that…
What do Jeremy Hunt’s welfare reforms add up to?
In his Budget speech, Jeremy Hunt made a great play on how Conservatives value work. Tories love talking about this…
The biggest Budget surprise wasn’t one of Jeremy Hunt’s announcements
The biggest surprise from today’s Budget was not an announcement, but the forecasts that gave Jeremy Hunt room for manoeuvre.…
Why Biden will never let Silicon Valley fail
After a bank run on Silicon Valley Bank left the institution in ruins, the Federal Reserve announced it would make…
Will Credit Suisse trigger a global banking crisis?
When your largest single shareholder decides that enough is enough, that it is no longer prepared to throw good money…
What Biden gets wrong about women’s rights
If you’ve spent any time on Twitter over the past few years you will almost certainly have met the ‘woke…
Budget 2023: the main takeaways
Jeremy Hunt is today unveiling his first Budget. He has told the Commons that his Budget will help deliver on…
