Could Britain cope without Taiwanese microchips?
So now we know what Britain’s great green economy looks like. First, the good news: construction of electric cars in…
Tyre Nichols and the muted response of Black Lives Matter
The reaction to the brutal death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old, after he was stopped by police has been strangely…
Who killed Australia Day?
Australia Day was once a big deal Down Under, but in recent years the annual celebration has been somewhat muted.…
Halfway through Harris: our remarkable VP
John Nance Garner, a Texan who served as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s vice president for eight years, famously quipped that the…
Deadly Western trends
Australia is about as far away from the war on Ukraine as one can get, but this week it showed…
Former Liberal MP John Hyde awarded OAM
The Mannkal Economic Education Foundation has released a statement congratulating former Western Australian Liberal MP, John Hyde, for his wonderful…
The Australia Day debate: an exercise in puritanical Gnosticism
Michael Mansell, an Aboriginal Elder from the Aboriginal Land council Tasmania and secretary of the independence movement The Aboriginal Provisional…
Immigration to integration: a personal account
Effective integration is not easy for a migrant. When I entered Australia about twenty-five years ago, I felt like a…
The Oxford-Cambridge arc shows why the Tories don’t get it
Rishi Sunak has long sought to give Britain its very own Silicon Valley. Partially because pseudo-Californian beaches would provide respite…
The looming battle for Chasiv Yar
In the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, seven-year-old Symon was clinging to a chocolate bar and a packet of…
China woos the Washington Wizards
China’s new foreign minister issued his first public statement at a Washington Wizards game this weekend. “Happy Chinese New Year…
Germany – and Nato – should be ashamed of its grudging support for Ukraine
At long, long last, it might seem that things are coming to a head. After a year of phony excuses,…
It’s no surprise Britain’s manufacturers are struggling
Every month, we are bombarded with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), the main inflation measure. It is currently running at…
Tank warfare: why the West is worried about arming Ukraine
Ukraine’s top soldier, General Valery Zaluzhny, has said that if he is to launch a successful counter-offensive, the West will…
The retirement age should be 70
Remember the Waspi women, who used to leap up and down outside Tory conferences for the right to continue to…
Is sloppiness our new national vice?
The Germans have a word for it. When they wish to criticise their Austrian cousins’ alleged tendency towards carelessness and…
New Zealand’s PM is a welcome change from Jacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins can afford to feel pleased with his first days in office as Prime Minister of New Zealand. In…
Why Biden’s document scandal is worse than Trump’s
Shortly after reports surfaced that President Joe Biden’s team had found classified documents at his office at the Penn Biden…
In defense of paranoia
Maybe it’s because I grew up during the “stranger danger” milk carton kid era (for those too young to know…
Energy chaos: the shape of things to come
Australian governments have made energy policies focused on achieving higher shares of renewable energy that they claim is the cheapest…
A (desperate) town called ‘Alice’
The video records of what is happening in Australia’s red centre are disturbing at so many levels. This is a…
NSW cannot fix the housing crisis by killing rent bidding
Like a Miss Universe contestant declaring her audacious ambition to end world hunger, the government is telling us that they…
Albo’s Alice alcohol back-flip
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dealt his leadership a catastrophic blow on Tuesday when he proved – beyond all reasonable…
Breaking the silence: do mRNA vaccine harms outweigh benefits?
As someone who has always questioned the safety and efficacy of the Covid ‘injectables’, I’ve thought long and hard about…
