The ABC: still number four
A strange thing happened on the ABC’s Weekend Breakfast last Sunday. The regular news presenters – Johanna Nicholson and Fauziah Ibrahim – are already…
Revealed: what Boris and Carrie hang on their walls
Much has been written about the reported £88,000 Downing Street flat makeover masterminded by A-list interior designer Lulu Lytle. We’re…
Priti Patel is running out of excuses for the Channel migrant crisis
When immigration minister Chris Philp announced last summer that he was in the process of agreeing a ‘new operational plan’ with…
It’s erotic if you use a feather. It’s only perversion if you use the whole peacock
Sensuality boutique Honey Birdette has come under fire for one of their video advertisements on display outside their stores in Australian shopping centres. …
Andrews’ fumbling acolytes take Victoria to the brink
It’s all in a day’s work for the still absent, highly paid Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews. While Dan comfortably takes…
No one will care about the Hunter Biden N-word scandal
Newly published text messages from Hunter Biden reveal that Hunter Biden…is an American with actual freedom of speech! How lucky…
Joe Biden’s summer vacation
Tomorrow, The Committee will bundle up Joe Biden, titular president of the United States, and take him for a nice…
Kamala’s bad trip
Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on her first foreign trip since taking office this week — and quickly proved herself…
The G7, woke corporates and the end of capitalism
The Bank of International Settlements, the G7 Finance Ministers and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission have amped up carbon emissions-based “climate…
China should be worried about the Uyghur Tribunal
There have been harrowing storiesof cruelty, torture and mistreatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province in the newsthis week, coming from…
What the England team doesn’t get about ‘taking the knee’
England’s players being booed by their own fans is not a new phenomenon. But for the booing to be about…
Why our constituency names should celebrate Britain’s history
The real story of the proposed boundary changes is not which MPs might end up seatless or whether the new…
Will beefy Botham hit the hacks for six?
The end of lockdown and the dawn of summer has seen Westminster’s finest emerge once more in their best cricket…
Maya Wiley’s ‘Defund the Police’ folly
Defund the police! The clarion cry of protesters and middle-class warriors everywhere never fails to stir Cockburn’s passions. Slashing police…
France, football and Marine Le Pen’s war on a French rapper
‘Dans ce rêve où ma semence de nègre fout en cloque cette chienne de Marine Le Pen.’ You don’t have…
The diminishing returns from our macho tobacco laws
For most people who work at the ATO, chasing tax evaders must be rather boring. They sit at their desks and review tax returns for undeclared income and ineligible…
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…
