Old France defies the far-left – but for how much longer?
The left achieved a rare success in Paris on Sunday with the victory of Emmanuel Grégoire in the capital’s mayoral…
Queensland LNP’s rushed preselection must be postponed
Matt Canavan could be left in an unwinnable second spot on the Senate ticket
How Trump can ‘win’ in Iran
The United States is once again in a terrible predicament: a war where the definition of ‘victory’ grows murkier by…
Is Britain prepared for Iranian missiles?
Where’s your nearest bomb shelter? And how long would it take you to get there? What about at work? Have…
Dubai is a city built on sand
Dubai is like the dazzling partner some people enjoy being seen with, but know deep down they would never marry.…
Is Prince William really a shy Christian?
So Prince William is a good Anglican after all. He has told the Times, through an aide, of his commitment to…
The victory of the Iranian nation in Nowruz 2585
Nowruz marks the beginning of the solar year and the first day of the first month of the Persian calendar,…
Custodians of patriotism: One Nation earned this
One Nation has pitched itself as the party of patriotism. The weight of this cannot be understated. The electoral landscape…
Last waltz for Trump’s Hungarian friends?
Walking by Hungary’s immense neo-Gothic parliament building in Budapest’s Kossuth Square, one of Cockburn’s travelling companions sidles up to him.…
Alex Antic: Will he, or won’t he?
Even before the Liberal Party found itself in an existential crisis, whispers were circling South Australian Senator Alex Antic and…
Why did the NHS employ a dietician who didn’t know what the large intestine was?
Here’s a mark of our times. A dietician who apparently ‘bluffed’ her way into a top NHS job has been…
Iran’s strike exposes the danger of the Chagos handover
In a sharp escalation, Iran attempted to strike the joint UK-US base Diego Garcia with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Both…
The truth about Robert Mueller
In the pantheon of Trump adversaries, Robert Mueller may rank at the very top. Everything about Mueller – his rectitude, his…
Bowen bends on sulphur, not on nuclear
If sulphur limits can bend under pressure, why can’t nuclear policy?
Saturday Night Live is a major breakthrough in British TV
The news that a British version of Saturday Night Live was in the offing raised an enormous gestalt groan throughout…
A migration U-turn would bury the Labour party
Immigration has come back to bite the government big time. Shabana Mahmood’s sage campaign to set up Labour as the…
Britain is experiencing a pilgrimage revival
When Sarah Mullally started her pilgrimage this week, travelling from London to Canterbury, she wasn’t just embracing a tradition in…
Trinidad is sick of Britain’s lax asylum system
As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of…
Is Australia’s Defence Policy also decided on the steps of the Lakemba Mosque?
In 2012, during a heated Labor caucus meeting, then-Foreign Minister Bob Carr reportedly issued a challenge to his colleagues that…
Why we should send a frigate to the Gulf
We should send a frigate to the Gulf. The government’s advice that it hasn’t been asked to send ships to…
The Hundred still has a problem with Pakistani cricketers
Throwing open the Hundred to foreign investment was intended to attract more elite players, boost attendances and position it as…
Iran: dreaming of revolution
Iran is at the crossroads once again. While bombastic left-wing activists and journalists are strangely quiet about Iranians fighting a…
