Millions more blown on parliamentary pantomime
Whether it’s crumbling rooftiles, weekly fire alarms being activated or bacteria in the water supplies, the creaking Palace of Westminster…
Are rail strikes the start of a summer of discontent?
This morning, the UK woke up to the largest rail strike in thirty years. As many as 50,000 workers are…
Is Britain heading into a wage-price spiral?
Are wages about to spiral out of control? Boris Johnson certainly thinks there’s a risk. Last week he warned that…
Tories beat inflation with glitzy ball
The cost-of-living crisis might be gripping the country but there was no sign of that at the Tories’ summer party…
The working class revolution of common-sense
What we saw in Melbourne during the tradie riots was a supreme act of sound judgment. Only a fraternity of…
The Winter of discontent
To paraphrase from William Shakespeare’s Richard the Third – ‘Now is the winter of our discontent made inglorious by renewable…
The world’s most expensive flagpole
As soon as the New South Wales state government finishes putting the Aboriginal flag atop Sydney Harbour Bridge, they need…
Albo’s war against Capitalism
Seeking to disabuse critics of the notion that his interest and expertise in economics were Whitlamesque, Anthony Albanese released a…
Kamala Harris’s zombie disinformation board
After giving up on the border crisis and Ukraine, Kamala Harris seems to have found an issue much more her…
There is no transgender debate
Anyone still talking about ‘two sides in the transgender debate’ needs to look at the footage from Bristol yesterday. Actually,…
Why won’t David Beckham criticise Qatar?
David Beckham has come under fire for failing to speak out about human rights abuses in Qatar. Amnesty International said…
How Meghan Markle can shake off the bullying allegations
She must be fit to be tied, the Duchess of Sussex. I know I would be. It was reported yesterday…
How Marine Le Pen silenced her critics
‘Stillborn’ is how Le Figaro describes Emmanuel Macron’s presidency after his Renaissance party failed to win an absolute majority in…
Marine Le Pen is the big winner in France’s anti-Macron election
Emmanuel Macron has lost his absolute majority. The surprise winner was Marine Le Pen and her party, Rassemblement National, while…
Macron’s nightmare is complete
French president Emmanuel Macron has been humiliated by voters, weeks after being re-elected by an unenthusiastic electorate. The hyper-president with…
Women’s rights triumph (sort of)
Far from the feminist Utopia, progressive politics underpinned by radical gender activism has created a generation of women too afraid…
From Istanbul, with confusion
Few cities stir the adventurer’s soul as Istanbul – that vast, sprawling mass straddling Europe and Asia which acts as…
Coal to the rescue?
What sort of a third-world country have we become, with an abundance of natural resources, that ‘load shedding’ or electricity…
Australia’s corporate Surveillance State
During the mid-20th century, George Orwell famously wrote a novel featuring the sinister embodiment of surveillance, the Big Brother State.…
The West: last refuge of the ‘Regressives’
Recently, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi made an address to the Iranian people, who have been protesting against the brutal Islamist…
Biden’s energy hypocrisy
Joe Biden promised on the campaign trail in 2020 that he would “transition away from the oil industry,” convert to…
Sir John Kerr: villain or victim?
Over the years since 1975, partisan players have mounted an ongoing campaign to vilify Sir John Kerr. They claim, variously,…
NYT finally tackles gender therapy
Cockburn started his Sunday by spitting Darjeeling all over the pages of the New York Times magazine. The cause of…
Parenting matters. It’s about time we were brave enough to say so
The Duchess of Cambridge has been out and about hosting roundtables with very important people, discussing what can be done…
Why Canada can’t put terrorists in jail for life
On 29 January 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette had breakfast, browsed the internet, had dinner with his parents, went to a mosque…
