The problem with being anti-woke
I’m going to do something that will likely annoy you, dear reader: I am going to make an argument about a…
Biden is the emperor with no clothes
The emperor is naked. The public knows it, and they’re finally beginning to speak the obvious truth. The emperor, in…
Who’s backing who? Mordaunt takes second
Only two Tory MPs will make it to the membership for a final election – which is why the number…
Quotas for – uh – merit?
It’s back. The discussion of gender quotas in parliament is back in a conversation being led by those who would…
Australia’s power paradox
Energy, energy everywhere, And all the lights did dim; Energy, energy everywhere, Nor any watts to glim. Or so…
‘Chuckmate’ – Elon Musk corners Twitter
Chuckmate? No, it’s not a typo – it’s a meme war. It was tweeted by Elon Musk beneath an image…
Albanese: putting Australia last?
In the lead-up to the federal election that resulted in him becoming Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese made a speech in…
The Hunter Biden iCloud leak double-standard
Another day, another deeply compromising story about America’s first son. This weekend, a hacker on the 4chan messageboard claimed to…
Tory leadership race tightens as MP threshold raised
The 1922 Committee has this evening agreed to change the Tory leadership rules so as to raise the threshold of…
Evolution is preferable to revolution
Grace Baldwin, in Monday’s Herald Sun, joins a long list of commentators arguing in favour of rising Wokeness saying, ‘If…
Jamie Wallis fled car crash in heels and leather mini skirt
Just because Boris Johnson has gone, don’t expect the legal fines for Tories to go away. Jamie Wallis, the Member…
Of course Rishi Sunak doesn’t have any working-class friends
I see there’s much chortling over the fact that Rishi Sunak once said he had no working-class friends. It was…
Penny Mordaunt and the Tory transgender divide
As war rages in Europe and inflation rockets, the Tory party is tearing itself apart in its hunt for a new…
Could Sunak implode?
There are few positions so perilous as being the frontrunner in a party leadership contest. Just being the heir apparent when…
Are some Tory candidates about to be ruled out?
The Tory leadership contest is a very crowded place – with Liz Truss overnight becoming the tenth candidate to declare…
NSW cancels itself over flag wars
The good news first: New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet isn’t going to throw $25 million at a flag pole…
The fatuous idea that politicians must be ‘in touch’
I was in Hyde Park on Friday watching an open-air Pixies show with very great delight when somewhere between ‘Vamos’…
Live blog: Truss declares, Gove for Kemi, rule change?
MPs are returning to Westminster after a long weekend in their constituencies. What are they returning to? Yesterday, three more candidates…
#MaskUp or ‘mask-off’?
Before Covid hit, we could barely imagine a reality where the world went into shutdown to safeguard ourselves from a…
Who will stand for free speech?
The primary feeling is a sense of dread. The oily scent of torches set aflame is in your nostrils, and…
Alberta’s anonymous silent killer
The province of Alberta in Canada puts outs annual statistics on causes of death. This data for 2021 was released on June…
Liz Truss enters the leadership contest
Liz Truss has become the tenth candidate to enter the Tory leadership race. Announcing her intentions in an op-ed for…
Damaging women in the workplace with ‘quotas’
Identity politics is driving terrible division in our society. Immutable identity is a feeble, hopeless way of judging the ability…
Gove backs Kemi Badenoch for prime minister
Michael Gove has endorsed Kemi Badenoch for Tory leader. Badenoch, who was one of his junior ministers at the Department…
Prince Charles’ ‘Great Reset’
It’s a conspiracy, until it isn’t. There are those that claim to be ‘serious’ journalists who continue to insist that…
