Is Germany already backsliding on Russia?
Just three weeks after Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany would directly arm Ukraine, Europe’s economic powerhouse is running out…
Hacks in uproar about Nazanin briefing
Welcome home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, released after six years imprisonment. The 43-year-old returned to the UK last week after the government settled a…
Don’t blame us Russians for Putin’s war
Thousands of Russians who have fled to Georgia in the wake of Putin’s crackdown are receiving a poor welcome. ‘F***…
Chasing ‘freedom’ at the federal election
This coming federal election, Australia is at a crossroads. The disillusionment with the major parties created during the years of…
Going out on a fossil fuel bender
Covid rates are abating just in time for surging gas prices to eclipse the pandemic as our crisis du jour,…
Where Europe ends and the war begins
On a nondescript bridge in the northeastern Hungarian town of Záhony, the European Union ends and the war begins. Even…
Daniel Andrews is destroying casual work
We have seen the warning signs for a number of years. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who grows more detestable from…
Don’t erase Russian art over Ukraine
The outrage felt by many in the West in the face of increasing Russian aggression and the trails of blood…
Andrew Sullivan searches for spirituality
It was daunting preparing to meet Andrew Sullivan, considered one of the cleverest, most fearless journalists of his generation. There…
Boris’s Brexit-Ukraine comparison was a mistake
After years of post-Brexit rancour,the last few weeks have been a striking display of European (not just EU) unity. Britain…
Putin’s Playbook is playing Americans for suckers
Perhaps the biggest mistake of the American intelligence world is to have imagined that Russians think like Americans. ‘They don’t,’…
Boris is right about Brexit and Ukraine
Boris was right to compare the vote for Brexit with the struggle for freedom in Ukraine. And here’s the thing:…
Francis Fukuyama on Ukraine, liberalism and identity politics
This week, Sam Leith spoke to Francis Fukuyama – the author of ‘The End of History and the Last Man’ and…
Zelensky’s Holocaust analogy is wrong
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, there has been no shortage of historical analogies used to explain the conflict. From Stalinist terrors to the…
Russia’s schools and universities are shamelessly kowtowing to Putin
Anyone wanting an insight into the strange atmosphere springing up almost overnight in Russia’s institutions could do a lot worse…
Operation Ark returns to haunt Boris
Boris Johnson is doing rather well on Ukraine at the moment, thanks to Britain’s role in sending arms and training…
What lessons can Britain learn from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ordeal?
‘How many foreign secretaries does it take for someone to come home? Five?’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has spoken for the first…
Is Zelensky’s party crackdown his first mistake?
The news that Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has banned eleven opposition parties – including the pro-Russian ‘Opposition – Platform For…
Parliament full of vermin: official
It was Nye Bevan who claimed that the Conservative party was ‘lower than vermin.’ But in today’s House of Commons,…
Bono’s ‘poem’ was an insult to the craft of verse
‘Poet’, said Robert Frost, ‘is a praise-word’. So it is. That explains in part the unabashed delight with which Colm…
We must record why Australians got vaccinated
As the war in Ukraine takes over our TV screens and vaccination becomes a memory, there’s an important question we…
Installing ‘Woke’ at the National Gallery of Australia
If you’re a gender diverse, sexually ambiguous, disabled, Indigenous vegan who can draw a bit, now would be a good…
Will war end the climate alarmist zeal of the central banks?
Faced with implacable opposition from the Senate, Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s pick for supervising banks within the Federal Reserve…
Labor doesn’t ‘walk the talk’ on women
Despite what the Labor Party – and the wacky Woke may think – Conservative and Liberal women have always been…
Putin and the Muslim world
Several thousand Muslim Chechen fighters are reportedly massing on the edge of Kiev. Syrian volunteers, filmed this week holding assault…
