Fembots go feral on Screw-up Spice
As her ABC documentary Silent No More attracts increasing heat, Tracey Spicer has reportedly retreated from public life. It’s impossible…
The 15 Scottish seats that could decide the general election
For at least a generation — something we define loosely up here — Scottish hacks have been trying to interest…
Gold Coast Young LNPers: pinheads, but racists? No
As a student going through high school in the 1990s in Sydney’s Western suburbs, I’d hear pretty much every day…
Never mind Big Pharma and Big Oil – watch out for Big Uni
Climate alarmists and Corbynistas (the former increasingly a front organisation for the latter) often put the word ‘Big’ in front…
Call that a public service cut?
So we have the long-anticipated reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but…
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the NSW Liberals’ secret revolution
In the 75-year history of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party, there has never been more factional…
There are only two likely outcomes to this election
There are, as I say in the Sun this morning, two possible outcomes to this election: a Tory majority or…
Only Brexit voters can save Nigel Farage from himself now
Nigel Farage last painted himself into a corner at the end of the 2015 general election. Now he has done…
The leaders debate was revealing, but hasn’t turned the tide
In Friday night’s final TV debate between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson, neither leader landed a sucker punch on the…
This is the most important election in modern history – so vote, and vote Tory
Next week, voters will decide the future of the government, of Brexit, and perhaps of the Union. Jeremy Corbyn has…
Portrait of the week: Terror in London, Trump in London and a resignation in Malta
Home Usman Khan, aged 28, out of prison on licence after serving eight years of a 16-year sentence for preparing…
Remembering the genius of Clive James
‘Clive James Stirs.’ That was the standard subject line for the emails I used to get from the great Australian…
What weather records were broken in 2019?
Keeping it in the family A study by the Middle East Technical University claimed to prove that the pronounced chin…
We could certainly do with a Tacitus now
As a contemporary John Clapham reported, Queen Elizabeth I ‘had pleasure in reading the best and wisest histories’, and translated…
Letters: Governments should be promoting marriage, not discouraging it for the sake of equality
Look closer to home Sir: In your interview with Boris Johnson (‘Austerity was not the way forward’, 30 November) he…
Six weeks is too long for an election campaign
The number of parties represented in national election debate multiplies. There are now seven crowding on to television podiums and…
The Tories are right to be nervous
Despite their consistent poll lead, the Tories are anxious. There is only a week to go and in many seats…
Who are we kidding – of course terror is a political issue
It was pleasing to see that old clip of Gerry Adams endorsing Jeremy Corbyn re-emerge, just before the acts of…
The Tories will win – but with no thanks to the North
It’s time to stick my neck out. What follows is anecdotal and my hunches have often been wrong. But I…
We don’t owe Waspi women tea and biscuits
The pressure group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) is oddly named. What their campaign opposes is pension equality. Now,…
The RMT strike is a demonstration of what to expect in a Corbyn-McDonnell regime
It’s unusual for a Governor of the Bank of England to announce his next job before Downing Street has named…
Nightmare on Downing Street: what could happen on Friday 13th?
Radicalism does not usually work out well for the Labour party. Michael Foot fought the 1983 general election on a…
What the Tories don’t understand about Corbyn voters
Until recently, the Tories seemed pretty confident about next week’s election. Despite spending three and a half years blundering over…
‘Corbyn is led by ideology, I’m led by economics’: Sajid Javid’s spending plan
If Boris Johnson wins next week, it will be on a manifesto of change. He will not deliver the fourth…
Viral videos, not leaders’ debates, could decide this election
You might well expect the final election debate, Johnson vs Corbyn head-to-head on primetime BBC, to provide the most watched…
