‘Rescinded’: LinkedIn users are listing their retracted job offers
Cockburn was on one of his regular jaunts through LinkedIn this week, on the lookout for more gainful employment than…
Ready for Rishi? Sunak launches leadership bid
Rishi Sunak has this afternoon confirmed that he is running to be the next leader of the Conservative party. In…
Shinzo Abe was Japan’s indispensable conservative
Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated today while electioneering, was his country’s indispensable man. Prime minister of Japan for much of…
How Boris Johnson changed my life
Over the coming weeks we will be regaled with dozens of personal recollections, from around the world, of the man…
Boris’s Tory assassins have learnt nothing from Thatcher’s downfall
John Stuart Mill once dismissed the Tories as ‘the stupid party’. When a reader queried the insult, Mill qualified it, but…
Has Jeremy Hunt been left in the lurch?
Boris’s decision to quit yesterday fired the starting gun on the greatest game of them all: the Tory leadership race.…
The problem with Tom Tugendhat’s ‘clean start’ manifesto
Tom Tugendhat has become the first of the Tory MPs depicted on our cover this week to confirm that he…
The attempted murder of Shinzo Abe
BREAKING: [ Edit: it has been released by Japanese media that Shinzo Abe has tragically died of his injuries.] At…
Boris didn’t break the system
Britain’s Donald Trump. A constitutional vandal. A grave and potentially even systemic threat to the rule of law and representative…
Why I’m not celebrating Boris Johnson’s downfall
I know it’s the season of ‘dunking on Boris’, which is fine. He deserves a bit of dunking for the errors…
If the EU disliked Boris, they’ll hate his successor
Three, five, or perhaps even ten whole minutes. In a more civilised, parallel universe, perhaps Europe’s big wigs would have…
Labor: your kids belong to us
The Australian Labor Party believes that children belong to the State. Parents are mere babysitters. Think I’m exaggerating? The Victorian…
The coming age of the vasectomy
The Supreme Court has overturned the tables that have governed our mating and dating for the past half century. We…
We must fix this politician-induced cost of living crisis
With interest rates rising again this week, inflation pushing up the cost of everything, and housing unaffordable for young people, families are…
The Pacific wants cash, not ‘gifts’
My favourite grandson, Asher, outspokenly declared to me at the age of 8 what he didn’t want for his Christmas…
BoJo – the schizophrenic conservative
Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Boris was a great friend of Australia who even spent…
Listen to Reagan: governments don’t solve problems
It was the astute Ronald Reagan who gave us the quote: ‘Government does not solve problems; it subsidises them.’ I…
Boris was never Trump
The urge to compare Boris Johnson to Donald Trump was always irresistible. It has been fun, too. Both men are colourful…
How Carrie helped blow it for Boris
Of course it is sexist to blame the woman. But, in the case of Carrie Johnson, it cannot be said…
Boris Johnson says goodbye – reluctantly
Boris Johnson has announced his resignation. Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister confirmed that he would reluctantly leave…
Full text: Boris Johnson’s resignation speech
Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you. It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be…
Boris should leave No. 10 immediately
Boris Johnson should stand down with immediate effect. Yes, he has managed to fill various cabinet posts. But he will…
Could Boris Johnson last until November?
The prime minister is resigning today, and staying on as caretaker till the autumn, but that leaves very big decisions…
The real reason Boris has gone
Boris, your leader, hasn’t gone because he handled ineptly the fall-out from deputy chief whip Chris Pincher’s well-lubricated non-consensual bum-fun.…
The Tories will miss Boris now he’s gone
Boris Johnson was often talked about as the luckiest politician on earth — and in a sense he was. Outrageous…
