Pro-lifers were the midterms’ biggest losers
When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in favor of the overturning…
A fool may be known by six things, now there’s a seventh
Let’s face it, the ISIS wives would not be returning to Australia if the Islamist extremist head-lopping Caliphate was still…
How AIDS charities are erasing gay men
An HIV+ gay man claims to have been denied counselling by an AIDS charity because he openly refuses to include…
At Mar-a-Lago as the red wave died out
It was a dark and stormy election night at Mar-a-Lago, former president Donald Trump’s Florida home and private club, which…
Grace for the graceless?
For two and a half years, many endured the impacts of authoritarian decisions made by politicians and unelected bureaucrats, spurred…
Time to cancel Trump’s Political Apprentice
Donald Trump did not emerge from the wonkish world of conservative politics and policy. He was a product of the…
Gas reserve: woeful short-term thinking
Energy scarcity equates to higher costs of living and lower quality of life. This fundamental equation is being proven in…
Russia will be sweating over its withdrawal from Kherson
Almost everyone has known that the city of Kherson, stranded on the right bank of the Dnipro River, was all…
Net Zero? The hypocrisy of the religious clerisy
It is a rootless age when 100 of the leaders of various Christian and other churches in Oceania can pen an…
Why Russia pulled out of Kherson
In one of the biggest developments of the Ukraine war, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has just announced the evacuation…
Who will be next week’s ministerial exit?
For the past fortnight, it was Suella Braverman. Now it’s Sir Gavin Williamson. The media aims to destroy two careers…
How did I get the midterms so wrong?
How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought…
What the Gavin Williamson saga says about British politics
I wonder if the fall of Gavin Williamson is the latest evidence that British political parties are becoming harder to…
Why didn’t Democrats pay a price for their extremism?
The modern political pundit is a voice in the wilderness, a self-styled beacon of truth against a pampered and bought-off…
The US midterm results are a wake-up call for the Republicans
There was no ‘red wave’ in America last night. This became obvious fairly early on, when congressional seats the Republicans…
Gavin Williamson is still causing problems for Rishi Sunak
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions showed it is possible for someone who has resigned for being a distraction to continue being…
Donald Trump is an albatross around the Republican neck
Donald Trump spent the days immediately before the midterms teasing and threatening his biggest Republican rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis.…
Another blue day for red New Yorkers
Lee Zeldin’s fairytale run for governor of New York fell short on Tuesday as he lost by roughly five points…
Is Netflix’s The Crown fact or fiction?
The latest series of The Crown has arrived on Netflix. To its predictable advantage, the show has already had the…
Why the red wave never crested
The 2022 midterm election was supposed to be a red wave. Instead, it turned out to be a night of…
Midterms: No red wave, America is still very divided
Is it a red wave? A ripple? Or a trickle? Nobody quite knows. However, what looks certain is that the…
Vic Libs: don’t be the Greens’ useful idiots
In April 1917, Russia was in uproar. Although the Tsar had been overthrown by a liberal revolution, chaos reigned, the…
The ABC, Playschool, and drag queen story hour
There’s a bear in there, and a chair as well, there are people with games, and stories to tell, open…
Trump calls for McConnell’s ouster on eve of election
Former president Donald Trump called for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to be replaced by Senator Rick Scott during a…
Blackboxed: New Zealand’s expensive management consultants
There’s a lot going on across New Zealand government agencies, and I suspect that the government is not too keen…
