The centre-right cannot hold
With apologies to WB Yeats and Joan Didion, the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate are now slouching, not…
How to win the Ashes using cancel culture
The suspension of English cricketer Ollie Robinson for poor form – not on the field but on Twitter — should…
While we were sleeping, New Zealand has lost a democracy
Jacinda Ardern believes New Zealand will become a republic. It’s all right, though, because she’s not in a hurry. But…
Curious… The woker it gets, the greater the ADF’s PR problems
As the inimitable Sir Humphrey Appleby once opined, “Minister, two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don’t…
Should we mix Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid jabs?
Should the NHS be mixing vaccines for better effect, or at least offering people who have had one dose of…
The German takeover of the EU is accelerating
Vetoes should no longer be allowed. Smaller countries should not be able to block the will of the ‘majority’. And…
DeSantis pads his résumé with anti-CCP bills
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed two more pieces of major legislation on Monday, this time targeting Chinese Communist party influence…
Victorians need an alternative government
If there is one thing that to be learned from NSW in the last 18 months, it is the fact…
Political asylum? There’s an app for that
Apps are the 21st century’s answer to everything, it seems to Cockburn. Faced with a problem, sooner or later some…
Matt Walsh, AOC and the limits of ‘own-the-libs conservatism’
On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued an anguished tweet about the living conditions of her grandmother in Puerto Rico, whose…
Trans activists are stepping up their war on women
First, they came for the Christians and I complained a bit, then they came for the lesbians and I was…
Scott Morrison stands for nothing – and his kitchen cabinet thinks it’s great
The Spec Oz has been warning about this. Now it’s official. Scott Morrison stands for nothing. The Sun-Herald and Sunday…
Princess Annastacia versus the little people
The Queensland government is denying vaccinated parents of a newborn the right to see their baby while, at the same…
Trolling the Queen
The Ginger and the Whinger have welcomed a daughter into the world, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. We should all be…
Twitter now claims to be an essential human right
Where to start? Twitter outdid itself over the weekend when it ditched any semblance of modesty and decided to identify…
The Dan Show
Strap on your masks and break out the hand sanitiser – The Dan Show is back for a fourth season, sans Dan! Debuting…
Lab leaks and the return of X-Files politics
It began last month when the Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology had…
The problem with the New York Times’ Gaza coverage
While war raged between Israel and Gaza, the New York Times published a powerful montage of 64 minors said to…
How a Polish coal mine risks derailing the EU’s climate strategy
Cracks are appearing in the EU’s climate strategy. An international dispute over the court-ordered closure of a coal mine on…
Why the far-right flourishes in East Germany
A spectre is haunting Germany — the spectre of the AfD. Having come to prominence on a wave of anti-migrant…
My daddy issues
Prince Harry wants to talk about his childhood and work out whom to blame. So do I. I grew-up in Mount Waverley and they really were…
Does Google really understand racism?
Opponents of the new racial extremism typically object that it vilifies white people in much the same way that classical…
The hidden costs of the G7 tax deal
Calls to reform corporation tax are nothing new and don’t just come from the left. The inefficient and bureaucratic nature…
Let the president play on the beach or the golf course
Every president is criticized, sooner or later, for taking too many days off, for lounging around when we’ve hired him…
Labour is in last chance saloon
If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…
