What’s woke this week?
Racism has remained the backbone of wokedom this past week with stories from the unlikely realms of sleep and K-Pop. Not to be…
Why didn’t we leave the cheese alone – and tackle violence and sexual abuse in Indigenous communities instead?
I’ve managed to go through my whole not so short life without ever associating the name of Coon Cheese with…
Why the left has seized on political correctness and cancel culture
I first warned about the dangers of political correctness in the early 1990s after reading the American academic Dinesh D’Souza’s…
Kanye West is the sanest presidential candidate
Kanye West has again proven his ability to draw the attention, fascination and ire of the public — this time…
ScoMo and Josh: worse than Whitlam?
In delivering the economic and fiscal update on Thursday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivered on his promise of ‘eye-watering’ numbers. An…
The Economist should be more like Walt Whitman
America is complicated. It’s hard to predict what it’ll do next, despite all the time and money spent observing it.…
Can Johnson save the Union?
‘UK Prime Minister visits Scotland’ shouldn’t really be a news story. But so infrequent have prime ministerial visits been in…
If a video is viral, who cares if it’s fake?
After two months, the ‘mostly peaceful’ label for the riots gripping American cities is wearing a touch thin. That’s not…
How Britain can tame China
Chinese leaders love to use the phrase ‘win-win’, but they actually hope to win twice and leave other nations in…
The problem with mandatory face masks
Last week the Prime Minister was photographed oafishly browsing in an Uxbridge shop, wearing a lurid blue mask. In the…
Corbynites turn on Starmer
As MPs head home for the holidays, Keir Starmer goes into the recess having put clear water between himself and his…
Is Trump toning himself down for re-election?
The last time a U.S. President lost re-election, the year was 1992 and the victim was George H.W. Bush. President…
A champion versus champion bigotry
Margaret Court is not only Australia’s greatest ever tennis player, but she is also proving to be something of a…
Is the demise of polar bears being exaggerated?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could debate climate change for five minutes without hearing about polar bears or being…
MasterChef is deeply, deeply racist. Apparently…
Next time an Asian makes the final of MasterChef, I’m turning the TV off. If my team – by which…
Open letters have become ransom notes
The ‘open letter’ is enjoying quite the formal renaissance. Curiously, recent examples of this newly popular epistolary genre exhibit striking…
Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
There’s only one person who’ll be genuinely pleased with the UK Intelligence and Security Committee’s Russia report, finally revealed on…
Coronavirus, climate and China: can we afford to fight three wars at once?
Australian politicians are trying to maintain their never-ending climate war on carbon fuels while waging a lockdown war on the…
Peter Ridd loses, we all lose
On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when…
Planned Parenthood finally grapples with Margaret Sanger’s racist past
In a startling departure from its typically dogged defenses, Planned Parenthood admitted through clenched teeth this week what many have…
Boris Johnson’s post-Covid agenda
Boris Johnson’s end of term address to Tory MPs offered a preview of what the government wants its agenda to…
The D10: decoupling from China
God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in 2020, so whatever there is deserves wider…
Who’s right — Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity?
Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity have, by some distance, the most successful cable news shows in the country. In June,…
Silence isn’t violence
In the evenings, when I want to relax, I watch a Russian named Max build a log cabin. Max is,…
How liberal globalism went bankrupt
When future historians chronicle the period after the Cold War, the rise of China will dominate their accounts. Beginning in…
