The chilling treatment of Piers Corbyn
If you were looking for the archetype of a crank it would be Piers Corbyn. Rather like his long forgotten…
Kay Burley’s bizarre takedown
What a scandalous idea, drinking with someone you might disagree with. Rather than grilling the transport secretary over his own…
Could Scotland’s hate crime bill make depictions of Mohammed illegal?
Charlie Hebdo’s decision to republish the Mohammed cartoons has the media a-fretting. Al-Jazeera called the illustrations ‘offensive’. The Daily Telegraph…
What’s woke this week?
Wokus pocus! The social justice conjurers of critical race theory and inclusiveness were staging some impressive illusions last week. With a wave of their wands looting, rioting and setting…
Elon Musk, Neuralink and the existential risks of human enhancement
Elon Musk’s Neuralink update on 28 August will be remembered by most of the public for clickbait news headlines involving…
Nancy Pelosi’s bad hair day
Does Nancy Pelosi’s unfortunate trip to a hair salon have any news value? Or is it much a hairdo about…
Are the ‘quiet Australians’ confused, fearful – or both?
On Monday, a Newspoll published in The Australian put the Coalition Government and the Labor tied on 50-50 support on a two-party…
The real threat to black lives isn’t white men in police uniforms
Recently media, activists and keyboard warriors have cherry-picked examples of controversial police activity to present coppers as enemies of the…
Can Rishi Sunak win back the Tory backbenches?
It’s not going to be an easy autumn for the Tories, which is why the top brass have started holding…
Is Extinction Rebellion extinct?
When Extinction Rebellion took over the streets of London last year, even some of those who disagreed with the aims of…
We may be closer to herd immunity than previously thought
Are we a lot closer to achieving herd immunity with Covid-19 than has been made out? It is a question…
What’s galling about the Sussexes’ Netflix announcement
All year, the nation has been gripped by one mystery. Exactly how will Harry and Meghan fund the lifestyle to…
Negotiating Scottish independence gives Unionists a winning chance
If the SNP win a majority at next year’s Holyrood elections, the UK government should be prepared to start independence…
100 years on, it’s well past time to rethink the court case that remade federation
The goings-on of the nation’s highest court rarely attract significant mainstream public attention. Yet the power of seven largely unknown judges to…
The BBC’s bid to axe left-wing comedy will fail
People of a conservative or Eurosceptic disposition should be thankful that the BBC’s new director general, Tim Davie, is to…
V is for Venezuela – and Victoria, too
The example of a pregnant woman in her home in front of her young children being interrogated and arrested by police graphically illustrates how…
Prepare for the rise of Irish Euroscepticism
Welcome to the wacky world of Irish national economic accounts. The official figures for Ireland’s tax-haven economy are so bizarre…
Why has only five per cent of the government’s small business support made it through?
Amid all of the public fanfare created by the billions of dollars in “free money” handed out by the Morrison…
The problem with fast-tracking vaccines
You have to admit it, Operation Warp Speed is a good moniker. It’s the name for the American interagency program,…
My run-in with the New York Times
It’s never a good sign when you’re watching a scene of street terror in yet another gut-churning YouTube video and…
Oh Dan, I have sinned against you…
ITEM: The Australian, September 3, 2020 The arrest of a pregnant anti-lockdown protester, which was live-streamed on social media, has…
Is your baby racist?
Babies, look at them: waddling about the place, falling over, crying, needy. Those racist bastards. Yeah that’s right, you heard…
ANU students want to ban Churchill – but with no traumatic debate, please
Australia’s preeminent university, Australian National University is the latest institution to take part in the importation of cancel culture, with…
Tories need to get real about tax rises
It’s sometimes said that Rishi Sunak has been playing politics on easy mode: when you’re giving away loads of cash,…
Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Jared Kushner. Seriously!
In these pages last year, I suggested that while the President’s son-in-law may not be a great geo-strategic mind, we…
