Pelosi fights, McCarthy flails
Recently, money was extracted from the taxpayers at gunpoint to create a PBS puff piece about Nancy Pelosi. Called “Pelosi’s…
The endless repeat of history
Many of our collective disasters are shaped by a lack of imagination. We tend to privilege what we know or…
Apres Macron, the radical left?
Bof! That useful French word – an older and slightly less irritating version of the American-English ‘meh’ – is how…
The French have voted for the lesser of two evils
Few scenes of jubilation as Emmanuel Macron was re-elected President. French voters held their noses and voted without evident enthusiasm…
Lest we forget
For the youngest two generations, the shadow of war has fallen into myth. It is a story bored (and increasingly…
Why we need an inquiry into gender treatment for children
Sajid Javid is right to worry about the way the NHS has treated children who identify as transgender. The Health…
Germany’s military muddle over Ukraine
The reluctance of chancellor Olaf Scholz to provide heavy weapons to Ukraine is now coming under increasing fire from abroad…
China’s demographic time-bomb is ticking faster
The latest warning was stark – that China’s population will shrink this year, more than a decade faster than forecast,…
Is this the end of Marine Le Pen?
Today’s election in France is likely to be a joyless, miserable affair for the electors who will dutifully turn out.…
Two million reasons to be optimistic
The two million data points provided by NSW Health in 2022 paint a picture about the current severity of Covid…
New Zealand ‘trusts’ China on extradition
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, under Ardern’s Labour government, has set another scary precedent in relation to China. ‘I don’t think…
Trump, Piers Morgan and the power of self-publicity
If ‘real recognise real’ – by far my favourite piece of modern American vernacular – then Donald Trump’s latest tiff…
The sad demise of Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart made one of the biggest career follies in the history of infotainment when he walked away from the…
Will Russia sink Le Pen?
Paris, France Marine Le Pen has changed her image. Five years ago, the veteran far-right leader lost her second bid…
Could Russia lose the war in Donbas?
We face a serious dilemma as the Battle of the Donbas begins. The idea that the Russian army remains a…
Happy families vs noisy activism
I have a genuine problem this election concerning which political party will get my consent to govern. The problem posed…
Virtue and order must come before freedom
Libertarians and conservatives “share a detestation of collectivism,” wrote Russell Kirk in 1981. “They set their faces against the totalist…
Once a socialist, always a socialist
I remember the first time I sat in the old town square in Poznan, Poland. I was so taken by…
Libs have lost the plot on transgender
There’s something in the water in Warringah. At the last election, when Tony Abbott lost to Zali Steggall, and now…
What does China know about MH370?
There are still too many loose ends to the tragic tale of the missing Malaysian aircraft
