Treachery of the elites
The greatest struggle in the West, and especially amongst the English-speaking nations, is an internal one. This is not to…
Brown study
I had just settled down in Air Canada’s luxury airliner that would whisk me across the Pacific to Vancouver and…
Spies like Abbott
It is hard to know which proposition is more absurd. Is it the notion that former prime minister Tony Abbott…
Is the Green party ‘rigging’ its presidential primary?
The Green party of the United States is selecting its 2020 presidential nominee. Its primary voters, however, may be denied…
Poppy-wearing politicians must do more to help war heroes
It will be a sight for sore eyes on Sunday when leaders of the two main parties lay their wreaths…
Is a vote for the SNP really a vote for prime minister Corbyn?
Nicola Sturgeon says she wants to form a “progressive alliance” after the election to evict Boris Johnson from 10 Downing…
You’re concerned about my right to know? Look who’s talking
Was it really just last month that the mainstream media teamed up to advocate their own freedoms, covering their newspaper…
Monday’s Q&A: simply a sign of the size of our problem
If ever the Australian public and our politicians needed additional evidence of how biased, vulgar and politically correct woke the…
For some reason, Michael Bloomberg thinks he should be president
Who would you like to see better represented in the already-crowded Democratic primary? Septuagenarians? Centrists? Or billionaires? For those of…
Techtonics: Labor doesn’t even understand why it loses
This is the second in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.…
Will former Labour MPs help the Tories break the ‘red wall’?
Will former Labour MPs help the Tories break the red wall? A key plank of the Tory path to a majority…
Sorry Margaret, but you’re a thought criminal
According to the Nine Network and its tedious tabloids, Margaret Court is causing headlines again by demanding that she receive…
What’s woke this week?
Award-winning transgender athletes have been trending in wokeworld this week. Along with that a sleepy little white town in Britain…
Big Brother is watching… porn?
Twenty years ago Australia was labelled as the ‘global village idiot’ by the president of the American Civil Liberties Union…
Not all protestors are created equal
Labor leader Anthony Albanese tweeted his support for people’s democratic right to protest earlier this week. This is what it…
Boris Johnson’s campaign launch will help calm Tory fears
When you ask those at CCHQ why this election isn’t going to be like 2017, one of the answers they…
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson quits parliament
In the past few minutes, Tom Watson has announced that he is stepping down at this election. In a surprise…
Want to see entrenched racism? Don’t look Downunder
I am often bemused at accusations about Australia having some kind of deep-seated race hate problem. I wonder whether those…
End the man-made drought. Rip up the Murray Darling Basin Plan
The failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is an example of what happens when decisions are taken out of…
The return of Ross Garnaut and climate nirvana?
This week, the Financial Review has featured a return of Ross Garnaut to the climate policy advisory role. Soothingly, he…
Forget racehorses. What about drunk colts and silly fillies?
Yet again, we’re in the middle of the spring racing carnival. And, like every other year, there is so much…
Stasiland?
The late British-American historian Robert Conquest is attributed with a truism that only gets truer with the passing of time:…
Labour’s four-day week pledge doesn’t add up
Would you like to be paid the same amount of money for working fewer hours? It sounds like it’s too…
The Lib Dems’ £50bn ‘Remain bonus’ is nonsense
The schools will all get new books. The hospitals will all be rebuilt. Long-suffering public sector workers will finally get…
Jo Swinson’s Corbyn problem
The Liberal Democrat election campaign launch was beset by technical difficulties which meant that Jo Swinson was at times hard…
