How Britain’s fracking industry was regulated into irrelevance
This week the fracking company Cuadrilla announced that it was permanently closing its two shale mines in Lancashire, after the…
Homeward bound (eventually)
After over four months in exile in Melbourne, I’m pleased to be back in Perth. My experience over the last…
Whoopi Goldberg, Disney’s hypocrisy, and how ‘Critical Race Theory’ makes you stupid
Whoopi Goldberg broke the internet last week by making painfully ignorant claims on The View about the Holocaust – and then being…
Politicians are talking a lot of ship!
Who would believe that Australia, with 60,000 kms of coastline ranking in the top seven in the world for coastline…
The fading legacy of Deng Xiaoping
After Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, it was clear to pragmatists in the Chinese Communist Party, led by Deng Xiaoping,…
Stonewall’s disgraceful attacks on the EHRC
Whatever happened to the brilliant gay rights movement led by people like Ian McKellen, Simon Fanshawe, Matthew Parris and Angela…
Canberra Freedom Convoy demands, ‘Sack them all!’
The Canberra Freedom Convoy is an awful lot bigger than the mainstream press would like you to believe. Although they…
The dog catcher, the terrorist and the dark history of Sinn Fein
The dead in the ground and those who put them there in the name of ideology do not rest easily…
Meet Sergey Naryshkin, Putin’s spymaster in Ukraine
On a cool October day in Moscow in 2017, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service,…
The academic taking on the trans activist bullies at Bristol university
Raquel Rosario-Sanchez’s case may prove to be a landmark one in the current war on women. She is a PhD…
Licoricia and the forgotten expulsion of England’s Jews
About three minutes’ walk from my house in Winchester is Jewry Street. It runs from the Theatre Royal at one…
Why the Trump toilet story stinks
While President Trump was in office, White House staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and came…
Transgender school policies are a safeguarding nightmare
With the Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination Bill and the recent controversy over Citipointe Christian College in the spotlight, it’s worth taking the…
The winning formula: BLM vs Grid Girls
Formula One drivers have finally realised that taking the knee before races is a hollow, meaningless, unproductive piece of pretentious…
The presumption of innocence? Bah! says ScoMo
The presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings, often expressed in the phrase ‘innocent until proven guilty’, is an ancient tenet…
Is the future of the American right at Mission Navy Yard?
What is the future for American conservatism? That was the question posed at a Manhattan Institute event on Thursday night,…
ScoMo’s lack of discipline
Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week called for unity within the ranks of the Coalition in order to get his…
