Landlords are exploiting generation rent
As interest rates hit nearly 2 per cent and inflation tops 9 per cent, many Brits are feeling the pinch.…
Why is the Globe making Joan of Arc non-binary?
Feminists tend to be fascinated with the story of Joan of Arc. She was irreverent, impertinent, way more intelligent than…
Spinning out of control
Every time it seems society has reached peak idiocy, something else pops up on social media that makes us question…
Who is Gordon Brown to pose as the voice of fiscal sanity?
Gordon Brown is demanding Parliament be recalled for an emergency budget. By October, he says, quoting a study he commissioned…
Did the SAS inspire Ukraine’s Crimea raid?
If the reports are right and it was Ukrainian special forces who destroyed as many as 20 Russian aircraft at…
Are we already in recession?
The Bank of England recently raised hackles by predicting that the economy would shrink in the final quarter of 2022,…
Australia ignores the tragedy of Tavistock
In the concerning world of Woke radical gender theory – where school children are taught that sex and gender are…
Welcome to Coles
Can you find a Coles staff member to scan your groceries after 8pm? If only they did acknowledgement of customer…
Should parents object to school ‘rainbow days’?
Last year, a new Principal started at our children’s school. One of her first initiatives was to hold Wear It…
The Liberals are totally rooted
I’ve been a member of the Liberal party for over forty years. In that time, it’s known great highs, and…
A Russian visa ban would delight Putin
Do you hate Russia, or do you hate Putin? That’s the central question behind a current debate about whether to…
How Britain’s ‘frenemies’ are helping Putin’s Russia
In the battle to become prime minister, both Liz Truss and RIshi Sunak have vowed to crack down on Britain’s enemies.…
Ukraine’s Crimean strike marks a new stage of the war
For most Russians, the brutal realities of Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ have not really struck home. Ukraine’s attack on…
Release the tape!
In the blue corner, we have Senator Jacinta Price who it is blindingly obvious has a heart of gold with…
We must rescue the good bit of the ABCC
It’s pretty easy to understand the politics behind the Albanese government’s shutting down the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).…
When truth is flummoxed by sophistry
Having watched the inexperienced Albanese government go from fighting a real pandemic threat in Covert to now apparently totally absorbed…
Against the ‘Karenocracy’
Are we governed by ‘Karens’? For the uninitiated, a ‘Karen’ is a synecdoche for a type of affluent and out-of-touch woman…
Children are the big losers from the decline of marriage
Funny, isn’t it, the way people bandy the word ‘bastard’ nowadays, without any notion that it pertains to the condition…
Europe’s looming energy wars
This summer marks a truce. But if, as expected, Liz Truss becomes prime minister, it is almost inevitable that tensions…
Sturgeon fires back at Truss
Miaow. The claws are out in the Tory leadership race, after Liz Truss took a pop at Nicola Sturgeon. The…
Is cash back?
Whatever happened to the great surge towards a cashless society which the pandemic was supposed to bring about? As I…
Are students really too fragile for Shakespeare?
What’s the point of a university? Regrettably, that’s a genuine question. The censorship and trigger warnings that are rife on British campuses…
What a coral reef misconduct claim says about climate science
On Monday, I wrote here about how the Great Barrier Reef is defying predictions of its own demise, bouncing back…
Do Conservative members miss Boris?
Boris Johnson is very much the elephant in the room of this leadership race, looming large over both Rishi Sunak…
Liz Truss’s camp hits back over Treasury windfall tax plans
Is the government about to toughen up its windfall tax? That’s the talk in Westminster today as Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi…
