What you need to know about Biden’s documents caper
We are still in the early stages of discovering what the documents discovered in Joe Biden’s office at the University…
Cardinal Pell’s righteous fury at the Vatican’s theological direction
Cardinal Pell, a former head of Vatican finances, does not criticise Pope Francis directly in the piece he’s written for…
We will miss the non-doms when they’re gone
It will cover a generous pay rise for the nurses. It will bail out the NHS. It will put the…
The Catholic Church must free itself from this ‘toxic nightmare’
Shortly before he died on Tuesday, Cardinal George Pell wrote the following article for The Spectator in which he denounced the Vatican’s…
Did Biden also illegally hoard top-secret documents?
Remember the tale of Donald Trump and the ‘illegal hoarding’ of the top-secret documents? It was only last summer. On…
Losing Crimea would condemn Putin
As the fighting in Ukraine slows for the winter, three things stand out. The first is the most obvious: a small,…
Boris: Tories must unite
To the Carlton Club, that Palladian monument to power. Last night it hosted the unveiling of Boris Johnson’s new portrait,…
Peter Dutton: statement on the passing of Cardinal George Pell
Australia received the news this morning of the passing of Cardinal George Pell DD AC. The son of a Ballarat…
Has China admitted failure for zero Covid?
Why did China end its zero Covid policy so abruptly? This question has confounded China-watchers and even the Chinese people…
In defence of Harry’s Taliban comments
Let’s just simmer down about Prince Harry, at least when it comes to his comments about the Taliban. In his…
Ron DeSantis is the Republican party’s best hope
Florida governor Ron DeSantis is shaping up as the GOP’s best hope for next year’s US presidential election. Large parts…
Cardinal George Pell: Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figure
There’s no doubt Cardinal George Pell is one of Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figures. While some will see…
Behind the scenes of the Kevin McCarthy negotiations
And then there was Kevin. In the wake of a forecasted red wave that never materialized, now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy plotted…
Ideas, my dear girl, ideas
Excuse me for so poorly paraphrasing Harold Macmillan, but fair dinkum. It feels like our political overlords are speaking in…
It’s different when Biden gets caught with classified docs
So where are the FBI SWAT teams? Will they be raiding Joe Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center…
Cracks appear in employer vaccine mandates
As we come back to work in 2023, many Australian companies are still mandating that their staff be ‘fully vaccinated’…
How have our politicians gotten so bad at lying?
It’s been a bumpy month or so for newly elected Congressman George Santos, if that is his real name. Shortly…
The truth about ‘anti-democratic’ protests in Brazil
Thousands of Brazilians have occupied this Sunday their country’s Congress to protest against the election and inauguration of far-left presidential…
Dark money
Recent years have seen a strengthening dominance of politics over individual and commercial decision-making. This is readily evident in the…
The UK can’t ignore Scotland’s gender recognition Bill
On Monday we learned that Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs) issued in Scotland might not be accepted in England and Wales.…
Boris Johnson falls victim to Grant Shapps’ photoshop fail
It seems that Grant Shapps’ day has just gone from bad to worse. Having cursed the Virgin Orbit mission by…
Is this the real reason Russia is trying to seize Bakhmut from Ukraine?
Bakhmut is not of immense strategic importance. It’s a backwater, empty of almost all civilian life, and largely in ruins.…
Why does Israel want to patch things up with Russia?
Is Israel cosying up to Russia? When Eli Cohen, Israel’s foreign minister, spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov last week, it was the first such call between…
Prince Harry’s Spare ends with a whimper not a bang
The epigraph for Spare, Prince Harry’s frenziedly awaited memoir, is from William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun. It states simply ‘The past is never dead. It’s…
How DeSantis can de-program the blue states
Four years ago this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis presciently warned in his first inaugural address that big-spending, high-taxing states were…
