The Oldest Culture: Engineering
The fourth in a series of articles examining Dark Emu-style claims. These days we hear a lot about what a…
Gove addresses Westminster rumours
The wine was flowing at last night’s Policy Exchange summer soirée as attendees unburdened themselves of the stresses of the past…
We have no choice? Really, Mr Premier?
The Premier of Victoria said a few interesting things when he plunged the state into its fifth lockdown. He was…
The truth about Nick Gibb, history and ‘dead white men’
In 1983, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a great American sociologist and politician, wrote: ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but…
The amazing return of Captain Australia
Eighty-one years ago, comic book writer Joe Simon created Captain America, an agile and resilient superhero who represented the American…
The tragedy of the Texas COVID-crats
Last week, Texas Democrats fled the state on a chartered plane to Washington DC, maskless with a case of Miller…
And the winner is… us
Finally, the 2020 Olympics are finally about to kick off. So why does it already feel so underwhelming? After…
When will Boris get serious about balancing the budget?
Should we be pleased that net government borrowing for June came in below expectations, at £22.8 billion – £5.5 billion…
Tehran is repeating the Shah’s mistakes
The Iranian province of Khuzestan is oil-rich but water-poor. At the best of times, the southwestern region is a problem…
The problem with polling
If you did an opinion poll about opinion polls, chances are most people would recognise the limitations of market research,…
Older voters are killing British democracy
There is an idea of the state that argues that the role of government is to act as a benevolent…
Covid pen-pushers write our future
How many public service jobs and third party government contracts have been created specifically to hold up the Covid bureaucracy? Forget about…
Will PETA be given a veto on all UK policy?
The government’s flagship Animal Sentience Bill is (slowly) making its way through parliament, with Monday afternoon seeing the Defra select committee…
Boris’s Brexit deal isn’t worth sacrificing Northern Ireland for
There will be chaos at the borders. Food will run out at the supermarkets. Travellers will face long queues, and…
A simple question each for Annastacia Palaszczuk and Scott Morrison on the games
Q: Premier, what public services will be cut or what taxes will be raised to allow Queensland to host the…
An official health warning: suspect everyone
The New South Wales Chief Health Officer told us yesterday that “whilst it is human nature to engage in conversation…
We have become Pavlov’s dogs – or Mark McGowan’s and Dan Andrews’, anyway
Just mention lockdown and a certain type of Australian starts salivating — Victorians and Western Australians. That’s one of the…
Six things we’re unlikely to read in Prince Harry’s memoir
In a fresh bid to secure privacy for himself and his family, Prince Harry has announced this week that he…
Can you spot the Victorian opposition?
There are less than 500 days until the next Victorian state election. With Victorians well into our fifth never-ending lockdown,…
Is NPR jealous of the Daily Wire?
‘Hey, that’s some nice Facebook traffic you’re getting. Would be a shame if something happened to it.’ That’s the tone,…
We can’t eradicate coronavirus. Let’s not eradicate our national spirit trying
I feel incredibly lucky to be living in our beautiful country. Thanks to our swift response to Covid-19, we have…
Is this the most outrageous Covid scaremongering yet?
Have you noticed the latest scare tactic pushed in the Victorian press conferences? After 16 months of waiting for the…
The American descent into madness
Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned…
What Jeff Bezos should have learnt from Neil Armstrong
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined the billionaire space race today in his suitably phallic looking New Shepard rocket. Bezos successfully travelled…
Isolation stats delayed as statisticians forced to isolate
A spectre is haunting Britain: the spectre of the ‘pingdemic.’ With Covid cases on the uptick, it is no surprise that more than…
