‘A huge great stonking mandate’: Boris’s Tory HQ victory speech
Boris Johnson has just addressed Tory HQ following the Tories’s huge election win. Here is the full text of what…
Jo Swinson to Laura Pidcock: the seven biggest scalps from election night
It’s been a remarkable election night. The Tories have won a big majority in the House of Commons and stormed…
‘Progressive’ education policy: a cure worse than the disease
Despite the now indisputable evidence that Australia’s education system has been led down a deleterious path, the proposed cure might…
Corbynistas react to the exit poll result
Tonight’s exit poll has predicted that the Conservatives are heading for a bumper majority of 86 – a remarkable result.…
This exit poll is a triumph for Boris Johnson
The exit poll is predicting a Tory landslide, a majority of 86 seats. The United Kingdom will leave the EU…
The polling that shows Corbyn is to blame for Labour’s decline
The reason Jeremy Corbyn is not preparing to lead the first majority Labour government since 2010 is Jeremy Corbyn. The…
I’m calling it: Boris is going to win this election
I am going to stick my neck out and say it’s going to be Boris by 58 seats. How do…
Kamala Harris is not your vice president
Little over a week on from the sad demise of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, the California senator is the…
What’s woke this week?
Recent news suggests that science is fast overtaking the arts at the vanguard of wokeness. The erstwhile boffins of physics…
Today is an exciting and nerve-wracking day for Brexiteers
It’s tense for us Brexiteers, isn’t it? We know that if the Tories don’t secure a Commons majority today then…
Who needs oil if surfers can summon shamanistic energy?
If environmentalism is the new pagan religion then protests are its ritualistic ceremonies. This was the theory I was hoping…
The only unprecedented thing about these fires is the hyperbole
Growing up in what was then the peri-urban fringe of Greater Sydney near the boundary of the Ku-ring-gai National Park,…
Only big government can save us from Roquefort cheese: the 2019 Nanny Award winners unveiled
The Centre for Independent Studies’ highly uncoveted Nanny Awards (The Nannies) go to the year’s most absurd, ridiculous, and bizarre…
10 bellwether seats to watch on election night
It’s easy to imagine prime ministers on election night, either nervously grinning or groaning in despair when the results for…
Ukrainegate is destined to fall flat
In the coming days Donald Trump will become the third American president to be impeached. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker,…
Socialism might seem sexy, but beware Bernie or a Corbyn catastrophe
Wherever you look, socialism is sexy again. Today, in Britain, Jeremy Corbyn is seeking election as prime minister on a…
Given the stakes, it’s no surprise this election has gone down to the wire
Polling stations open in 15 hours time and this is an election where no one is certain what the result…
Trump’s impeachment can only go one way – in his favour
After 17 witnesses, weeks of closed-door depositions and public hearings and a lot of heated back-and-forth between the parties, it…
How Democrats lost the Impeachment War — and probably 2020
The Democratic party is dying from its hatred of President Trump. The impeachment fiasco is just the latest symptom. After…
Cheaper power coming? Blink and you’ll miss it if our Paris goals remain
There is a panoply of agencies regulating energy at the Commonwealth level and not all of these seem to be…
A pox on anti-vaxxers after Samoa’s sorrow
The death of more than 60 Samoans from their country’s latest measles outbreak shows what can happen when anti-vaxxers triumph. …
ScoMo, spite, screeching and virtue signalling smoke signals
There is one thing fouler than the air quality in Sydney right now — the abuse being hurled at our…
Tory lead more than halved in final YouGov MRP poll
When the first YouGov MRP poll of the election campaign was published last month, it was a cause of anxiety…
Doctor knows best? Here’s a tale of climate activism and censorship
Introduction When it comes to climate change, do you think that medical journals publish all the science that’s fit to…
Piers Corbyn: My brother Jeremy’s green policy is ‘nonsense’
Vote Corbyn, says Corbyn. That is the unsurprising message from the Labour leader’s brother Piers in a video filmed at…
