Chairman Dan’s antipodean Venezuela
In her media realise dated August 17 and headed ‘Applications Open for Premier’s Spirit of Democracy Tour’, Minister Natalie Hutchins…
Mitch McConnell isn’t going anywhere
Just a few months ago, Blake Masters was strongly criticizing Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, expressing hopes, as other conservative candidates…
Could inflation hit 18.6 per cent?
When last month’s headline inflation figure was released, showing a rise to 10.1 per cent on the year, a little…
The puppet-master’s victory lap
President Biden’s team of progressive bow-tied brainiacs are getting out their Champagne flutes. Can you blame them? Sure, the rest…
Sanna Marin and the rise of fake controversy
With an honourable exception for the Beastie Boys, I can’t stand the use of ‘party’ as a verb. It immediately…
Truss and Sunak reach crunch week on the energy crisis
There’s still two weeks of the Tory leadership contest to go but by Friday the scale of the energy crisis…
The real motivation for the FBI raid
I write a day after the FBI, without warning, raided Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. According to Trump, agents…
Salman Rushdie: a history of violence
In the classic Hitchcock film The Birds, there is an early scene where the protagonist notices a raven standing on the…
Paying for the pandemic welfare state
We need to stop looking to the government to resolve all of our problems – especially since many of our…
The ‘progressive’ Holy Trinity is far from divine
The Manly Sea Eagles rainbow jersey saga represents the new ‘progressive’ Holy Trinity of diversity, inclusion, and equality with a…
What the Dugin assassination tells us about Russia
Car bombs used to be a fixture of gangland feuds in 1990s Russia but have since fallen out of fashion. This…
The trouble with Tavistock
“In July, Britain’s National Health Service announced a major revamp of its gender identity services for young people. The famed Tavistock…
The depressing rise of the cathedral gimmick
They say that shopping centres are the cathedrals of late capitalism. It is amusing sometimes to think of future generations…
Europe’s new migrant crisis
Earlier this month I spent a week in Sicily, driving south from Palermo to Agrigento and then east to Syracuse…
How we fell for antidepressants
The French novelist, Michel Houellebecq, with his accustomed acuity about modern culture, titled his last novel but one Serotonin. By…
Thatcherism is a cult the Tories should not follow
Friedrich Nietzsche may not be the most fashionable member of the conservative canon, but doubtless he wouldn’t care much. He…
A republican Liberal is oxymoronic
I didn’t think this was possible, but even more indictments were levelled against Scott Morrison last week – something about him…
We reap what we sow
You reap what you sow, as St Paul once said. Thanks to Israel Folau, we know that St Paul said…
The strange morality of sponsoring weapons
Forget fund-raising concerts donating spare clothes and offering your spare room to a refugee family. There’s a better way of…
Don’t write off Michael Gove
No senior politician has ever possessed a talent for upsetting prime ministers to match that of Michael Gove’s. David Cameron…
It’s time to lift the medical student cap
Gaining a place in medical school has always been a lottery, made even more difficult for aspiring doctors this year.…
Ron DeSantis will save conservatism
There is an inevitability to Ron DeSantis’ rise to power that terrifies Democrat leaders. He is not an unstable political…
How Ukraine is sabotaging Russia’s army
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) or possibly partisan fighters have conducted successfully attacks on three significant targets in occupied Crimea…
