Time to die, Mr Bond. Time to die
It is said that No Time to Die will be the twenty-fifth and last Bond movie made. There are two possible reasons.…
Who won the Cold War, anyway?
Thirty years ago this December 26, the impossible happened. One of the bloodiest states of the twentieth century (a horrific…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: wokeness is the return of white supremacy
There are white people in this country and elsewhere who rank human beings by race, with the whites at the…
Nuclear energy is our only way forward
What’s going to happen? Is everything going to be ok? What should we do? Predicting the future has always been…
What Bernard-Henri Lévy sees for the West
I meet Bernard-Henri Lévy at his apartment in central Paris on a chilly autumn afternoon. Considerations of security prohibit me from…
The hostage president
Every president is a hostage to fortune, but every president makes his own luck. The George W. Bush presidency was…
John Roskam: well done, friend and freedom fighter
Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam has announced he will be standing down after 17 years at the…
America needs more than ‘guardrails’ with China
As recently as a week ago, there was talk that Monday night’s virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese…
Who stands with Dan? The cult revealed
Who, exactly, make up the members of the Cult of Dan, those hashtag warriors who instead of rattling off Hail…
How Kyrsten Sinema brought Gen X to the Senate
Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t care. She doesn’t care about your tweets. She doesn’t care about the constant vitriol from Jacobin-lite bloggers.…
Breathe easy: Perrottet records false positive for the Dan Andrews strain of governance
For a moment yesterday it seemed that the New South Wales Liberals had caught the deadly Chinese flu dictator variant…
What’s the truth about Kyle Rittenhouse?
On the night of 25 August 2020, Richie McGinniss, a somewhat gonzo video journalist interviewed Kyle Rittenhouse, for the right-wing Daily Caller website. Rittenhouse wore his…
Is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine?
I can still hear the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. Just a mile or so from us, thousands of Russian troops…
Why COP26 flopped
King coal is dead, long live king coal! That might be a fitting epitaph for COP26, which mercifully ended last…
Could the rise of Sinn Fein lead to a united Ireland?
The possibility of a political wing of a terrorist organisation becoming a party of government in an EU member state would…
Is Boris Johnson’s sleaze nightmare over?
Two weeks into this self-inflicted Tory sleaze scandal, Boris Johnson has set out plans to bar MPs from political consultancy…
Language, power – and Covidspeak
Of all the known unknowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, of who to blame and of how to act, one certainty…
Tulip Siddiq’s selective attacks on foreign leaders
Tulip Siddiq has campaigned nobly for the return of her constituent, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The Labour MP is again doing her…
Blue on Blue: May savages Boris
The faults in the Tory party were on show for all to see today, as MPs were forced to debate…
Truss fails her first big test
Can anything stop the irresistible rise of Liz Truss? The power-dressing insta lover reinvented herself at International Trade, becoming the…
So much for amendments to the pandemic bill. Habeas corpus still goes out the door
The idea that a government could be handed near-absolute power to control the lives of citizens indefinitely ought to be…
Kamala Harris, unprotected
Are you a sexist and a racist? For her supporters, that’s the only possible explanation for why Vice President Kamala…
The terrible truth about hydrogen
The idea of using hydrogen in the energy industry is not a new one, but only in the last two years has it…
Rittenhouse prosecution shoots from the hip
There are three basic rules of gun safety: always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction, always keep it…
Men in women’s sport? They just want equality, right?
It helps to be insane if you want to understand modern culture. Take this article from the Seven West Media-owned PerthNow…
