Liz Truss’s immigration conundrum
The Conservatives – in office since 2010 – are now into their fourth successive manifesto pledge to bring down immigration,…
Six graphs that could seal Liz Truss’s fate
When Britain crashed out of the European exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday, prime minister John Major phoned the Sun…
Tyranny’s higher education production line
Reflecting on Jacinda Ardern’s recent attack on free speech at the United Nations, British pundit Brendan O’Neill astutely declared that…
The Russia-Iran axis that’s menacing Ukraine
Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine is coming up on its eighth month, and the costs to the Kremlin’s military have…
The Trump subpoena probably won’t matter much
Poor Donald Trump. The January 6 committee has subpoenaed him. The New York attorney general is seeking to put the…
Bros
Bros follows the story of a man who can’t decide if he’s one of the ‘smart’ or ‘stupid’ gays. Billy…
De-radicalisation programs are a nonsense
There is so much confused thinking about thinking. It is some people’s belief that all you have to do to…
A republic means a political president
The Australian Republican Movement (ARM) was founded on July 7, 1991. A few months later, Paul Keating deposed Bob Hawke…
Dead-weight drowning productivity
The green investments that threaten our future with their failures
Boris turns down editor job
Who will take over the Evening Standard, the ailing London freesheet currently losing £14 million a year? One name floated…
Iranians have turned against the mullahs’ empire building
Iran’s protestors are showing immense courage. That is a given. But the reasons why are worth spelling out. Not only…
Channel 4’s Hitler art show is no laughing matter
Can Channel 4 sink any lower? The TV channel has purchased a painting by Adolf Hitler so that a studio audience…
Kanye West is not OK
Ye is the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Even more formerly, he was known as Yeezus, back when he…
Watch: King Charles says ‘Dear oh dear’ as he meets Liz Truss
Meetings between the monarch and the prime minister remain a closely-guarded secret. This means that anything that is caught on…
The speed of science
As a way to excuse the rushed, reckless, and misleading manner in which some of the Covid vaccines were manufactured…
What our progressive overclass has wrought
Progressives at the zenith of privilege and power have steered US civil rights, education, and welfare policies almost exclusively for…
Kanye’s Wild West
What are we to make of Kanye’s latest stunt where he wore a shirt that read, ‘White Lives Matter’? Can…
The ‘consensus’ hoax
Is the adversarial nature of politics doomed? Despite what some members of the 47th Parliament often say, such as the…
From youth unemployment and welfare to the ADF
Australia currently has – among many others – four problems, which are related but which can be solved. The four…
Backbench Tories turn on Truss
Liz Truss’s appearance before MPs at the 1922 committee on Wednesday evening was meant to be part of a wider…
Australia: welcomes ISIS brides, debates Novak Djokovic
The government is determined to allow ISIS brides back into the country but hasn’t made up its mind about Novak…
When is fascism not really fascism?
In his essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell wrote, ‘The word fascism has now no meaning.’ Last weekend, I…
Study: it’s not Adam Levine’s fault
After love rat Adam Levine and wife Behati Prinsloo were pictured smiling on a beach were released, it seems that…
Truss says no to spending cuts. Here’s the caveat
The mini-Budget was a spending spree. The ‘medium-term fiscal plan’ was meant to explain the funding. But what exactly is…
Just stop Just Stop Oil
Why block roads? Why make people’s lives miserable? Who do you think this is going to convince? So go the…
