The two Americas: California vs. Florida
What is America? The answer to that simple question can get you into a lot of trouble. Or it can…
Hungary’s revenge: Orban is sacrificing EU unity for Russian gas
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov spoke magnanimously while receiving his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó in Moscow this week. He promised…
The tide is turning in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Could Russia triumph? There’s a growing sense that, as the months wear on, Ukraine’s resistance is faltering. The West is…
There’s nothing conservative about climate change
The combination of ’40°C temperatures’ and ‘England’ feels about as natural a pairing as ‘English football’ and ‘winning’; God simply…
Tory MPs will regret giving Kemi and Penny the boot
If the chaos of recent weeks in British politics has clarified anything, it’s the almost complete schism between Conservative MPs and…
Why Erdogan is now happy to snub Putin
Vladimir Putin’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the start of the Ukraine war was supposed to project…
Putin could come to regret his gas game with Europe
Russian president Vladimir Putin has always enjoyed trolling European leaders. As relations between Moscow and Berlin deteriorate over reduced natural…
Biden’s problem isn’t his age, it’s his eyesight
My brothers, my sisters, hold it right there. Thank you. We’re missing a major point, howsoever understandably. All this media…
Inequality resides at the heart of the sexual revolution
The thesis of the sexual revolution was a fantasy. We need to return to reality.
WHO declares Monkeypox a public health emergency
The last we heard of the official advice for Monkeypox was – uh – to avoid casual group sex with…
HSBC has answered the call of the Chinese Communist Party
HSBC was being more than a little disingenuous when it claimed on Thursday that Communist party cells don’t have much…
What’s the matter with Disney?
If there’s one thing that gives a bad name to gender stereotyping it’s the Disney princess: a combination of hideous…
Why Zelensky is purging the security services of Ukraine
Could a general of the SBU, the security service of Ukraine, really have helped Russia take the city of Kherson?…
Germany is caught in Putin’s trap
A collective sigh of relief went through Berlin this week as Russia resumed its gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1…
In defence of Liz Truss’s ‘fairytale economics’
One of the key dividing lines of the current Tory leadership contest concerns economic policy. The gap between the candidates…
Non-birthing parent Adam Bandt angers mothers
Sperm-donor and non-birthing parent Adam Bandt – who problematically refers to himself as ‘dad of two’ in his social media…
Big Pharma: a petroleum-dependent industry under attack by climate warriors
There is a war brewing between the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids who demand free healthcare and the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids gluing…
Latter-day Luddites
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio certainly has chutzpah. This week she demanded the Australian Energy Market Operator be given stronger…
Why I’m glad the Libs lost
Team Morrison presided over the worst abuses of our rights in our history
The strange death of Liberal Australia
It’s a long road back for conservatives who lost the culture wars
