Standing for Hong Kong
First, they came for the Tibetans, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Tibetan. Then they…
Eden-Monaro: how dare #Cobargo residents think for themselves?
It’s been a week since the Eden-Monaro by-election. The outcome has been overshadowed by the mounting coronavirus crisis, but one…
We need industrial relations reform for post coronavirus recovery
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced there will be an overhaul of Australia’s industrial relations laws. He wants business groups…
Pro-lifers, it’s time for civil disobedience
The Supreme Court has ruled in June Medical Services, LLC vs Russo that the dismemberment and removal of unborn human lives was more…
Will the BBC become a victim of its own bias?
The BBC is losing me. It’s a sudden estrangement and an unwelcome one but I can’t seem to shake it…
President Trump grants clemency to Roger Stone
Well, he finally did it. After months of anticipation, President Donald Trump has signed ‘an Executive Grant of Clemency commuting…
‘Rishinomics’ could cost the Tories the next election
A truism is emerging that the Tories’ massive public spending has left Labour politically with nowhere to go. This quasi-social-democrat…
Prepare for Javid vs Sunak in the next Tory leadership contest
In 1992 a young footballer named Dion Dublin left my local team, Cambridge United, to take up one of the…
HCQ? You read it here first
In the wee small hours before the dawn of the Independence Day holiday weekend, presumably when it hoped no one…
Brown study
Since my column confessing to a lifetime of white supremacy and worshipping at the altar of colonialism, many readers have…
Australian notes
Yes, black lives do matter. But let’s have some honesty… The greatest failing of the Black Lives Matter movement in…
Cultural notes
My answer to China? The Anglosphere. ‘Enough buying from China! Why do we need their stuff? It’s s—t quality anyway.…
Birthday/Reflections etc.
Australia is on course to self-destruct One of the many benefits in having a big bash to celebrate turning 90…
Political notes
We must resist the American Left’s dangerous race-based lies I have been following the rise of identity politics for 30…
Bedwetter’s lament
The trouble with political memoirs is that it’s very hard to get the balance right between the book-length version of…
Relief
Recently I touched on the subject of evaluating works of art prompted by what seemed to me rather an empty…
Jessie Traill: A biography
She could have been one of our great-aunts. She was from that remarkable generation of educated, unmarried women who chose…
Aussie life
Like so many of us in these troubled times, I am worried about the family statues. The topple-mob cannot be…
The psychedelic scene
There aren’t many authors as generous to their readers as David Mitchell. Ever since Ghostwritten in 1999, he’s specialised in…
Bad science exposed
Research has always been susceptible to fraud, but regulations are now much tighter than they were, says David Wootton
