The Tories should ignore the Amersham by-election
Chesham and Amersham has fallen. The once uber-Tory Chilterns citadel has been snatched by the Lib Dems, with local campaigners…
Does ‘Johnson’s law’ explain why people won’t work from home?
Even after the one metre rule and the limits on numbers are removed on July 19th, we will not be…
WA Police’s abuse of Covid app data destroys the rule of law
John Locke, seen by many as the father of our Western Liberal culture, once said “the end of law is…
Victoria: the failed punk rock state
I’m not saying Johnny Rotten is a prophet, but he kind of is. The manic-eyed lead singer of the Sex…
Rishi Sunak and the coming Tory battle over climate change
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, isn’t normally given to waffle, which makes his maiden appearance on GB News all the more…
Do you truly believe Joe Biden is in his right mind?
Liberal journalists and politicos are obsessed with the truth. The truth, besides Donald J. Trump and Fox News, is their…
Dark Emu: the turkeys fight back
Well, Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe certainly threw the Tasmanian devil among the scrub turkeys supporting Bruce Pascoe, with the…
Victoria’s Secret clips its angels’ wings
Millions of unshaved lesbians are celebrating this week after Victoria’s Secret decided to go all-in on marketing with a butch…
Cambridge deserves better than Stephen Toope
Regular readers may be aware that in recent months I have been having a running-spat with a Canadian lawyer called…
The DUP is tearing itself apart
Late last night, the UK government and Sinn Fein went over the heads of the DUP and agreed on a…
Delay, data and the need for transparency
Boris Johnson delayed 21 June, he said, because the data did not merit a full reopening. The specific data government…
Is the EU breaching its UK treaty by failing to protect LGBT rights?
Has the EU Commission lost any sense of moral value? This week, Hungary, an EU member state, voted to impose…
Scrapping English votes for English laws could spell trouble
It has been almost 45 years since Tam Dalyell first asked the West Lothian Question. It is a damning indictment…
The EU’s debt bondage expansion
In the global market for government debt, worth an estimated $92 trillion (£66 trillion), it amounts to little more than a…
How Les Bleus united France by not taking the knee
For those who lean to the right and live in France, Tuesday nightwas magnificent. Not only did LesBleus open their…
So long to Leeds’s appalling prostitution zone
Goodbye and good riddance to the Leeds ‘Managed Zone’ in which punters were given amnesty to buy the most disenfranchised…
What are we to make of the Julie Bishop Barbie?
In a week where various state premiers are competing to steal your takeaway coffee cups in a ‘war against plastic’,…
Coal isn’t just an energy issue, but also vital to defence
Australia’s ability to produce unlimited electricity has almost been lost thanks to myopic politicians captured by climate zeitgeist. Our nation’s…
Why the minimum wage increase won’t help the low skilled and low paid
The Fair Work Commission yesterday announced plans to increase Australia’s national minimum wage by 2.5% on July 1 of this…
Melbourne University’s attack on freedom, on women – and itself
Melbourne University has warned staff teaching a course on feminism they must not say anything that could cause harm to…
Identity crisis: how the politics of race will wreck America
The American experiment is fragile. It has always been fragile and always will be fragile because it is so extremely…
Brexit, lockdown and the fracturing of British politics
Is our society becoming less tolerant and more viscerally tribal? Or is our politics provoking people into committing more angry…
Why the Biden-Putin summit wasn’t a waste of time
The meeting between U.S. president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin in Geneva started cordially enough. A quick handshake, toothy smiles…
Rishi Sunak: I’m a fiscal Conservative (unlike Boris)
When Rishi Sunak told Andrew Neil this evening that he had his eyes on the future, he was ostensibly talking…
