How the fight against terror in Afghanistan will change
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the West entered a new age: it was the era of the ‘shadow…
Why Johnson’s tax gamble will pay off
Boris Johnson’s announcement today, promising he will fix the £15 billion hole in health and social care, may well be…
Can Johnson win round his social care critics?
Is Boris Johnson’s social care plan about to sail through the House of Commons? Today the Prime Minister will unveil the…
The agender of the ABC
My attention is repeatedly and reluctantly draw to the ongoing focus of the ABC to rid women of traditional and…
Oxford has more to be ashamed of than Gove
Being the most prestigious university in the English-speaking world comes with its drawbacks. While the rolls of alumni are littered…
Will Johnson’s cabinet of cardboard cutouts make a stand?
Cabinet government has become a very degraded thing. When I checked last night, cabinet ministers had still not been told…
The UN says no coal by 2030
Reminding us of what a difference a year makes was yesterday’s exhortation by UN Climate Action Team head Selwyn Hart, that…
The strange Tassie death cult
Death Cult: “A fringe religious group that is obsessed with death.” Or, if you prefer, the Tasmanian Greens. With just…
The grim prospect of Gov. Bill de Blasio
During the presidential election, there was a lot of talk about unifying the country. Seven months later and the restoration of norms…
Andrews’ weakness is his conceit, but can the Liberals take down Goliath?
Good polls come and go. Bad polls linger for longer than most would like, but only rarely do leaders grow…
The battle over abortion in America has only just begun
The battle to overturn Roe v. Wade is nearly over. The battle to end abortion is about to begin. When…
Matthew Guy and Michael O’Brien: the raindrop race
Did you ever have raindrop races when you were a child; pick a raindrop on a window with a sibling,…
Lord Sumption was right to quit the Supreme Court
There used to be a saying: ‘never discuss religion or politics’. That was just a societal rule, a prudent tip…
On Afghanistan, Boris Johnson has escaped again
Boris Johnson took a strangely upbeat tone when he updated MPs on Afghanistan this afternoon. He argued that British planning…
Macron is terrible. Nobody can beat him
At the beginning of the pandemic, I advanced here the theory that having declared war on Covid, the virus could…
Is Boris weaponising reshuffle rumours?
Parliament is back today and the Prime Minister is facing an autumn filled with problems. Boris Johnson had hoped to…
Tough Love: Covid-19 and the racism of low expectations
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Another Tory tech blunder
Oh dear. Longtime readers will recall that it was just three years ago that the Conservative conference app was revealed…
Remember when we respected the police?
Aren’t members of the police force Australian citizens too? Citizens who have families and are also hurting because of the…
Now even Sir Alan Duncan turns on Stonewall
Covid has meant it’s been a tough old year for the charity sector – but few have had it worse…
There’s nothing Liberal about the Liberal Party
John Ruddick is the Liberal Democrat Party candidate for the Senate. He recently wrote in these pages about the just-passed…
Identity politics is a threat to societies
Identity politics has been weaponised to sow division across the Western world. Global outrage over the killing of George Floyd…
The West is being played by the Taliban
There have been some curious juxtapositions in Afghanistan this week. On the one hand, the under-19 Afghan cricket team was…
Death, Covid and freedom
Let’s talk about death — because until we do talk about death we will never be free of the fear…
The ivermectin skeptics
The first time I heard about ivermectin was from my doctor early on in the Era of Covid-hysteria. The United…
