Time and tithes of the Voice
These things are always about money. How much will you pay to apologise for the colour of your skin?
The mystery of the Hu Jintao incident
A steward tries to lift Hu Jintao from his seat, but Hu doesn’t want to move. The former Communist party…
Watch: Xi’s predecessor marched out of CCP meeting
Is this the start of a new Xi Jinping purge? Earlier today, the former Chinese president Hu Jintao was manhandled…
The Boris strategy needs to change
Had Boris Johnson simply wished to use the current vacancy for prime minister to remind us all of his superstar status…
How Mussolini invented fascism
Benito Mussolini, the revolutionary socialist inventor of fascism who came to power 100 years ago this week, was one of…
What does Russia really want?
The question of ‘why’ Russia invaded Ukraine has been forgotten amid war’s fog. Greed and malice partially explains it. History, geopolitics…
The problem with Mordaunt’s trans conversion
Penny Mordaunt’s entry into the Tory leadership race was widely predicted and she has now become the first to throw…
What’s Rishi Sunak’s pitch?
Rishi Sunak has passed the 100 publicly-declared supporters which, it if is converted to nominations when Sunak officially declares, will…
Rishi Sunak and the triumph of managerialism
A few short months ago, Liz Truss dismissed Rishi Sunak’s business-as-usual managerialism on the economy. The former chancellor responded by…
Boris is no conservative
The current Tory breakdown is all the more remarkable given how quickly it has happened. As recently as last September…
The US knows the main threat is China
China’s President Xi Jinping opened the CCP’s 20th party congress by doubling down on four key issues: no let up…
Africa’s zone of anarchy is getting worse
In the most violent region in the world, the West is realising that it messed up. Protestors in Burkina Faso…
BOM-shell
Not content with changing historical data to protect the image of Climate Change (sorry ‘homogenising weather data and closing stations…
Why Israel won’t give lethal aid to Ukraine
Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz announced this week that Israel would maintain its policy of not supplying weapons to Ukraine.…
Just how bad will the midterms be for the Democrats?
Towards the end of the summer, almost in a spirit of contrarianism, well-informed Americans started talking about President Joe Biden…
Floods and droughts are nothing new
There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human…
Labor and the Jews
You gotta hand it to them. Unlike the Coalition, the leaders of the Labor party have no problem whatsoever prosecuting…
Australian notes
The current consideration by the Australian Human Rights Commission of a complaint by Green Senator Mehreen Faruqi against fellow Senator…
Best of times, worst of times
On our woke judges and a disgraceful miscarriage of justice in New Zealand
