Has QAnon been vindicated?
QAnon is the online movement spawned by Q, a poster on the anonymous message board 4chan. In October 2017, they…
The fatal flaw in Shabana Mahmood’s migration plan
Today we will learn exactly what Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood meant when she hinted last week that the government would…
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a calculated risk
This afternoon, the Home Secretary will set out in the House of Commons her proposed reforms to the asylum system.…
Shabana Mahmood has gone further than expected
‘This is a moral mission for me, because I can see illegal migration is tearing our country apart, it is…
Siddiq’s aunt handed death sentence
To Bangladesh, where the country’s ousted former prime minister – and aunt of Labour MP Tulip Siddiq – has been…
Shabana Mahmood plots illegal migration overhaul
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is set to announce a series of new measures in the Commons today to combat…
Stop saying ‘Our BBC’
One of the most grating and nauseating verbal constructions of our times – ‘Our NHS’ – has with grim inevitability…
Andrew Hastie: the Liberals’ last lifeline
Andrew Hastie’s bid for the leadership isn’t just another chapter in the party’s factional saga. It is the Liberals’ Last…
NSW Liberals can lead on energy
The NSW energy debate has drifted further from reality with each passing year. Politicians chase targets, oppositions trade slogans, and…
Speculation rife that Andrew Hastie’s time has come
Too much listening. Not enough doing. Liberal Leader Sussan Ley was warned from the start that her softly-softly approach to…
We are not Robespierre’s children
The three momentous mistakes we currently make are not to bend all our efforts to fix economic growth and therefore…
The trouble is nobody believes Sussan Ley
Devastating poll results shows One Nation closing in on Coalition
Sunday shows round-up: Mahmood’s migration ‘moral mission’
Tomorrow Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, is set to announce changes to Britain’s asylum system, designed to discourage those who…
Chile flirts with a rightward turn
A border ‘ditch’ may prove to be the thing that brings the right back to power in Chile. Although the…
Is the Coalition up for the Net Zero fight?
In November 2009, the Liberal Party, led by Malcolm Turnbull, resolved to support the then-Rudd government’s emissions trading scheme, that…
One Nation accuses Labor of being ‘hypocrites on the world stage’
Why is coal suddenly Net Zero when burned in China?
Why Israel fears Turkey’s involvement in Gaza
As the Gaza ceasefire struggles into its second month, a significant difference between the position of Israel and that of…
Accused rapists aren’t getting a fair trial in Scotland
The UK Supreme Court has made a very confused ruling about whether or not Scottish courts are breaching the right…
An independent Bank of England isn’t working
Andrew Bailey recently claimed that the Bank of England has saved the government £125 billion. The Bank’s governor was responding to criticism…
England will win the Ashes
The build-up to any Ashes series in Australia provides great entertainment all of its own. This time, as the first…
Polish plumbers and the problem with national stereotypes
In 1614, the Scottish writer John Barclay published a slim Latin book with the grand title Icon Animorum, or The Mirror of…
Greyhound racing is on its last lap
The trap draws open. The long, slender bodies of the greyhounds bolt out in pursuit of the taunting, mechanical hare…
Why Trump is freezing out Five Eyes allies
The most powerful intelligence alliance in the world is breaking up. In January, Donald Trump restricted intelligence-sharing on Russia and…
