Statistics on Indigenous women as perpetrators
It isn’t easy to find data on Indigenous women’s violence. The numerous reports on Indigenous violence usually omit any mention…
Trump didn’t break America. Biden won’t fix America
One era ends; another begins. As J-Lo sang her patriotic wine-bar set at Joe Biden’s inaugural in Washington DC, the…
Say that you love me
The only thing politicians fear is the media. If they own the media, they have nothing to fear. This is…
Biden’s trans rights agenda is bad news for women and girls
Joe Biden has wasted little time grabbing rights from women and girls across America. On day one, he signed an Executive Order…
How effective has the Covid vaccine been in Israel?
The world’s eyes are on Israel at the moment, as the country continues its phenomenally fast roll-out of the Pfizer…
The mounting problem of, er, multi-racial whiteness
How are we to reconcile the fact that white supremacists are increasingly ethnically diverse? This oxymoronic conundrum has recently been…
Preening premiers have ensured our borders are bonkers
Oh 2021, what hopes we had for you. When the clock chimed midnight on New Year’s Eve, a national sigh…
How the Republican party survives Trump
Since I had written speeches for Trump and his family in 2016, I was asked to provide an inauguration address…
A Trump comeback? Don’t bet on it
He did it. Donald Trump made it through four years, not an accomplishment many of his detractors thought he would…
Welcome to the Harris presidency!
Congratulations, President Harris (pronouns: she/her)! At last, the United States of Mutual Loathing will lead the world by having a…
Good luck to Joe Biden. He’ll need it
It’s official: the inauguration is over, the speeches have been given, and political power in the United States has been…
America last: Biden’s first day in office
After months of speculation, we finally know what a Joe Biden presidency will look like. The newly inaugurated 46th President…
The worst President ever?
The final days of the 45th United States president’s time in office saw a push from a number of organs of…
When will Britain take a stand against Pakistan?
Well, now that we’re all fired up about Britain’s moral role in the world courtesy of Theresa May, who is…
James Corden and the problem with post-Trump comedy
With admirable and determined positivity, James Corden and the Late, Late Show released a Les Mis-themed video last night, bidding…
Tavistock gender clinic whistleblowers have been vindicated
The Care Quality Commission has released its reports on the gender identity services offered by the Tavistock and Portman NHS…
Joe Biden’s plan to keep the Democrats in power
Today the Trump administration ends. The first time a President has failed to win re-election since 1992. The first time…
Will Navalny’s gamble backfire?
For years, Alexei Navalny had been – barely – tolerated by a Kremlin that was willing to permit very limited…
An early coronavirus vaccine rollout? Be careful what you wish for…
Following reports that 30 people died in Norway after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, the government, its health officers and Pfizer…
Ed Davey is leading the Lib Dems to extinction
Ed Davey became leader of the Liberal Democrats almost five months ago. Since then, his party has achieved nothing. The…
Trump’s exit is an opportunity to ditch the nuclear ‘football’
Among the most alarming episodes during Donald J. Trump’s tumultuous final weeks in the White House was an announcement by…
Trains, plains and escalators
Vladimir Lenin once said that there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. The events two…
Biden’s basement or Blofeld’s lair?
Former senator, strategist and Spectator Australia and Australian’s contributor Stephen Loosley wrote yesterday of what he called “conspiracy-saturated claims” about…
Will Albo be elbowed?
In 2005 American psychologist Philip E Tetlock published a book Expert Political Judgement in which he analysed 82,000 expert political…
Why are we wasting so much of Australia?
‘Social distancing’ was the motto of 2020. However, with around 90 per cent of Australia’s population crammed into 0.22 per…
