Aussie life
Anthony Albanese’s republican sympathies were a matter of public record when a Voice to Parliament wasn’t even a whisper in…
Woke language
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) once said: ‘The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.’ And if the woke…
Wrong on lockdown, wrong, too, on net zero?
We need a royal commission into the abuse of power during Covid
Is the Boris partygate probe ‘flawed’?
The new prime minister has not been announced yet, but Lord Marland – an ally of Boris Johnson – has…
Boris’s resignation honours list: runners and riders
There’s very much an end of days feel in SW1 right now. With parliament in recess and a Truss coronation…
France can’t keep its Jews safe
France is home to roughly half-a-million Jews. The country’s Jewish community is the largest in Europe, and the third largest…
Will Marine Le Pen betray her voters the way Boris did?
How do you solve a problem like Jean-Marie? That is dilemma facing Marine Le Pen as her National Rally party…
What the defenestration of Ravil Maganov says about Russia
In my travels when I was still persona grata in Russia, I never got the sense that their windows were…
To hell with the transport union
The Sydney Rail, Tram, and Bus Union has rejected the NSW government’s offer and is planning to continue striking. I am…
From Canada, with madness
The Covid safety regime highlighted how intensely ‘Mother States’ dislike independent men
Dreaming of a Constitution without colour
It is the objective of every writer to avoid cliché, yet I have found there is a category of great…
Dangerous energy politics
Electricity has properties that require supply and demand to always balance every few seconds. This means, firstly, that there has…
Tony Burke’s gig ‘cancer’
In recently calling gig work a ‘cancer’, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has made it pretty clear what’s in store…
Giving racism an Aussie voice
Our beloved country under Labor’s proposed ‘Voice’ will become one gigantic apartheid state. Australia will boast apartheid and racial segregation…
US lockdowns wipe out decades of maths and reading progress
In Britain, the damage of lockdown was easily covered up by grade inflation: with 45 per cent of A Level…
Who will fill the Boris void?
Boris Johnson’s last set piece speech today was typical him. There were references to Ladybird books, attempts to blame the…
Truss’s Oxford Europhilia revealed
Throughout the leadership contest, Liz Truss has been all too keen to paint herself as a Brexit queen, keen to…
Poll: voters don’t want Boris in Truss’s Cabinet
The Tory leadership race is almost over and at last a new PM will be announced. Most expect that next…
The V&A’s Tory troubles
All political lives, famously, end in failure: but not so for Tristram Hunt, the former Labour education spokesman now recast…
The truth about Xi Jinping’s ‘One China’ policy
As the representative of Her Majesty’s Government in Beijing entered the room through the tall and heavy doors, he was…
