House Republicans accuse Democrats of ignoring censorship in Big Tech report
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are releasing their own report on Big Tech on Tuesday, countering a Democratic report…
It’s far too early to write off Donald Trump
Too many pundits are ready to call the 2020 presidential race with a month to go. Four weeks is a…
What does Boris Johnson’s Tory party stand for?
The main thing to say about Boris Johnson’s speech at this year’s online Tory conference is that it captures the…
The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment
What is Donald Trump’s greatest gift? Some say his finely honed instincts; others, his tabloid genius for publicity. But we…
The Budget’s new normal remains rooted in the real world
Whatever else one can say about tonight’s federal Budget, at least Josh Frydenberg has held the line firm against the…
The sinister Vatican plot against Cardinal Pell
Cardinal George Pell isn’t the sort of man to say ‘so there is a God after all!’ – but plenty…
Capslock campaigning
Last night, President Donald Trump ran a little experiment on us. It came in the form of rapid-fire CAPSLOCK tweets,…
Lidia Thorpe: trying to change the system from within?
Imagine loathing a country so much that you take a seat in its parliament. Step forward Lidia Thorpe, Richard Di…
Chairman Dan flunks corona class. Again
You’ll recall our little reality check from a fortnight ago after Newspoll found 62 per cent of Victorian voters believe…
We all know habeas corpus goes, but did we tell you about the ethnic angles of Daniel Andrews’ Omnibus Bill?
When future generations ask when did Australians gave up on democracy and freedom, the answer will be 18 September 2020;…
The hypocritical oath
‘Please tell me you’re Republicans,’ President Ronald Reagan joked with his doctors as he headed into surgery after an assassination…
Our ruling Kakistocracy
Studies have shown that cognitive diversity can improve the effectiveness of thinking and quality of decision making in groups. This is in part…
The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists
For a witch hunt to begin extremists must so dominate a movement any sin, however slight, becomes a heresy the…
Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics
The United States has always been the world’s leading religious marketplace. Even before independence, the American colonies were more fervently…
Sunak warns of hardship
When Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor in February, he must never have imagined that his first address to the Conservative…
Why won’t the UK vaccinate the whole population?
In British COVID vaccine taskforce head Kate Bingham’s interview with the Financial Times, where she says that vaccinating the whole…
Are all political parties destined to fail?
We seem to be entering another era of political party expansion. There’s Laurence Fox’s new party, not to mention the…
No doubt the ABC will blame the lack of coverage on funding cuts
Big, big, big. It would be hard to get a more lurid tale than The Times article, republished in The…
Border bans: premiers put the constitution behind them
Hi folks, welcome to our neck of the woods (mind the charred koalas). The dunny is down the back there…
Did Chairman Dan just blink?
Daniel Andrews has always been firm: the average new daily coronavirus case count — Victoria-wide — needs to drop below…
Sco Mo, Josh: this is what we need to hear tomorrow
Many Australians rightly look back on the Hawke-Keating-Howard-Costello era of the 1980s and 1990s as Australia’s golden era of reform. From the…
Biden can smell victory in his battle against Trump
‘How is the president feeling?’ shouldn’t be a difficult question to answer. And yet over the last 24 hours, nobody…
Why are journalists making Trump’s illness all about themselves?
What’s the most important part of this developing Trump-has-Covid story? Is it ‘how sick is the President?’ Or is it…
Boris Johnson warns of turbulence ahead
As Conservative party conference gets underway online, Boris Johnson used an appearance on the Andrew Marr show to warn of the…
REVEALED: How the journalists’ union put the Cult of Dan ahead of journalists and journalism
Even before Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced his unprecedented nine-hour curfew, one hour a day limit for exercise and prohibition…
