Most Americans know how Trump’s impeachment circus will end
The first public hearing into President Donald Trump’s impeachment began with a bang. And it proceeded throughout the afternoon into…
The Democrats’ bad start to the impeachment hearings
The first day of public impeachment hearings was good for Republicans and mediocre, at best, for Democrats. That’s far short…
Ok, millennial?
The young and the hopeless: A new survey consisting of 2,000 millennials (ages 22-38) has revealed some troubling statistics regarding…
What’s woke this week?
The world has ridden a tsunami of woke this past week. It came crashing in from all corners of the…
Wheeling in the circus
The inaugural Broadside festival of feminist ideas — yes, that festival behind that episode of Q&A — ran last weekend…
Resistance reality TV has jumped the shark
Comey. Cohen. Strzok. Page. Blasey Ford. Kavanaugh. Mueller. Taylor and Kent. Are you fed up yet? It sometimes feels as…
Transgender adventure in Dan Andrewstan? Careful, you just might find it
“Transgender people should be given hormonal treatment and sex-reassignment surgery on demand without a diagnosis or assessment by a psychiatrist,…
Boris Johnson’s election pitch is a flashback to 2015
Boris Johnson’s speech today was an attempt to set this election up as a choice between a Tory majority government…
SBS and the case of the missing bushfire story
Yesterday I tweeted a quote from an SBS News article from 2013 which featured top bushfire researcher David Packham calling…
Why school exams matter
Undoubtedly, the Higher School Certificate is hard. But final exams are not intended to be easy — to be some…
Labor said ‘if you don’t like our policies, don’t vote for us’, yet still needed an election review?
Labor really didn’t need an army of strategists to find out why it lost the widely touted unlosable May election.…
Exhibitionist feminism: an infantile disorder
The majority of the time I dismiss far-left exhibitionist feminists as “fembots” as they are utterly incapable of original thought,…
Trump’s economic nationalism is an effort to save capitalism
This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. Elizabeth Warren looks like a deadly serious prospect for the…
Confessions of a White House staffer: forgotten coffees and flustered phone calls
Things have been frantic over the last few days, as I’ve been forced to assist one of my bosses in…
Hillary Clinton is right to question transgender orthodoxy
Hillary Clinton’s BBC interview in London is making headlines mainly about Russia, but students of the debate about transgender rights…
Why Nigel Farage should withdraw from more seats
Nigel Farage did a noble thing yesterday in agreeing to stand down Brexit Party candidates in the 317 seats the…
Campus free speech is a thing of the past
Not that long ago, the sorts of views that were verboten on a university campus were genuinely out-there and nasty:…
How woke is your tote?
As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” For starters, they…
Jacinta Price forced to beg activists: don’t exploit my nephew’s death
Activists inciting racial division and hatred have disrespected a grieving family’s wishes for calm and peace while investigations into the…
Hysteria heats up with wrong answer to an old problem
First Extinction Rebellion blocks traffic claiming that the world will end unless Australia shuts down all industry immediately, then the…
Perhaps we should all just ignore mad Auntie
It is now clear that none of our successive federal governments has the courage, willpower or intention to do anything…
Daniel Andrews corroboree of jobbery. Part II: the secret parliament
Polls have closed and 21 Aboriginal members have been elected to Victoria’s ‘First People’s Assembly’. The assembly will meet on…
Only one thing is certain in this general election
No one has much certainty about what sort of government we will end up with after this election. Even when…
Nigel Farage has given Tories the perfect campaign message
It would obviously have been better for the Tories if Nigel Farage had announced that the Brexit party was standing…
Nigel Farage’s Brexit party u-turn still isn’t enough
Nigel Farage says his party will stand aside in all 317 seats the Tories won in 2017. This drastic u-turn in…
