J.D. Vance owns Tim Ryan after Ryan calls him a racist
Cockburn watched with delight last night as Ohio’s Democratic candidate for US Senate, Tim Ryan, served up an absurd accusation…
Sleepy Joe leads the work-from-home crusade
Rejoice, slackers of America! For there is a new figurehead leading your crusade for lunchtime naps, camera-off Zoom meetings and…
Carnage meets courtesy at the Georgia debates
Atlanta, Georgia Georgia’s leading political candidates crossed swords earlier this week at the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios for the Atlanta…
The threat of Chinese headhunters
It is hard to say what is more shocking, dozens of former British military pilots lured by vast salaries to…
Now the Aussies mock Truss too
How are the mighty fallen. Once, Liz Truss was the toast of Canberra, the champion of AUKUS and a Free…
Beware a Tory in a hurry
Liz Truss will not lead the Conservative party into the next general election, despite her rather hesitant claim to the…
Support the strikes!
There are no two groups more different than climate protesters and striking workers. The former are mostly plummy layabouts, posh…
Rishi Sunak lost. Get over it
The WhatsApp message doing the rounds in Westminster yesterday was succinct: ‘Rishi PM. Hunt Chx. Penny FS. It’s a done…
Stop blaming Tory members
With Jeremy Hunt installed as the representative Sensible and Penny Mordaunt answering questions in the House, Liz Truss has been…
Britain needs more honesty about unemployment
Is low unemployment causing us more problems than we realise? The suggestion might seem absurd, offensive even. It’s reminiscent of…
Is TRUTH Social doomed to fail?
Following his suspension from Twitter in the wake of January 6, the question of where Donald Trump would take his…
Los Angeles will never be multicultural heaven
A secret hour-long recording of an October 2021 meeting of Los Angeles city politicos surfaced last week, as California’s midterm…
Church and State
Something I decided to help solve after the failures of the 2016 federal election is the level of misinformation that…
Frogself
A Hobart mayoral candidate has been accused of mocking transgendered people because she signed off an email by identifying as…
The nanny state
Contrary to the opinion expressed by Matthew Parris, the nanny state did not initiate the changes that he so rightly…
Liz Truss apologises for the chaos. What next?
Finally, we hear from the Prime Minister. Liz Truss has given an interview to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason.…
Debunking unions: the cure for Australian schools?
The biggest problem families and schools face is the power imbalance generated by unions. Unions do not have the cure…
The mystery of chronic Lyme disease
I struggled to pull myself out of bed in the morning. I slept for hours at lunch breaks and was…
Has Hunt restored the government’s fiscal credibility?
Jeremy Hunt set out at the start of the weekend with one goal in mind: that when the gilt markets…
Cancelled Kanye West buys cancelled free speech platform Parler
Hear Ye Hear Ye! The news today has broken that Kanye West – who calls himself Ye – has bought Parler, the…
Mordaunt faces the music as Truss’s understudy
When the phrases ‘the Prime Minister is not under a desk’ and ‘I don’t think there has been a coup’…
The Cuban Missile Crisis has become a cultural touchstone
At the beginning of 1962, President John F. Kennedy had high hopes for a peaceful year with the Soviet Union,…
Mordaunt: Truss isn’t ‘hiding’ under a desk
Oh dear. Liz Truss ducked the opportunity to come to the House to explain Jeremy Hunt’s U-turn earlier today. So…
