ScoMal goes green to GULAG glee
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: The exhilaration! CBD’s Christmases (oops seasons) are coming early. Just…
Think Republicans will lose the House, Senate and presidency in 2020? Dream on
Politics, said Bismarck, is the art of the possible. Among other things, that apothegm pays homage to the pressure of…
Washington, we have a problem (and probably Canberra too)
Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of…
Watch: Boris Johnson bids backhanded farewell to John Bercow
There is no love lost between John Bercow and Boris Johnson but the Prime Minister managed to bite his tongue…
Is your Halloween costume woke?
Halloween used to be easy. It was a fancy-dress party: you could wear whatever you liked. The idea was to…
Ten seats that could win or lose the election for the Tories
Will the Tories’ election gamble pay off? Or will Boris Johnson follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and regret…
Worker entitlement funds: the missing millions
Big unions boast that they represent the financial interests of workers. But actions speak louder than words. If unions are…
Techtonics: why the party of the workers has a problem with working people – and why it matters
This is the first in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.…
Boris Johnson rallies Tory MPs as Commons backs snap election
The House of Commons has just voted by 438 to 20 for a 12 December election. Given that amendments on extending…
Britain heading for 12 December snap election
Britain is heading for an election on 12 December. MPs are currently voting to confirm the Government’s preferred date for…
No free speech please, we’re Millennials
Another day, another survey paints a worrying picture of the attitudes to freedom of expression in the home of the…
A vote for Labour is a vote for anti-Semitism
The December election that now looks inevitable will be, as all elections are, a test. A test of a decade-old…
Why would anyone normal want to be an MP?
Heidi Allen has announced she is standing down at the election, citing the culture of abuse and intimidation in politics…
Can the Tories hold on to their Scottish seats?
The prospect of a Christmas election is one the Scottish Conservatives do not greet with enthusiasm. The party has lost…
Catholics didn’t squib the NSW abortion fight
Christopher Akehurst’s lament of the Catholic Church’s apparent absence from the recent New South Wales abortion debate, Eavesdropping on Sin,…
Why is the left allowed to bully whoever it deems dissident?
The Ellen De Generes I saw in the public eye was never really my cup of tea. Then again, it…
God and the Rock
Religion is a serious business. It used to command our lives and our attention, albeit the latter only weekly. Still,…
What the Joker furore says about our gatekeeper journalists
Perhaps the only thing to come out of the cinemas recently that is as interesting as Todd Phillip’s Joker has…
Will Boris Johnson get the 2019 election he craves?
By the end of the day tomorrow, we will know if Boris Johnson is going to get the 2019 election…
Stop all the clocks, Baghdadi is dead
Bright eyes, burning like fire Bright eyes, how can you close and fail? How can the light that burned so…
How woke workplaces make us big babies
Businesses have “gone too far” in telling people how to live their lives, according to Attorney-General Christian Porter. His comments were sparked…
Seven candidates who could save the Democrats in 2020
Has there ever been a more cack-handed, sloppy bunch of goons than these Democratic candidates? Ancient Joe Biden looks like…
Big Squaw E. Warren speaks with forked tongue
This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. Absent the appearance of a last-minute deus (or dea) ex…
How the left make their own reality
There are facts, but your perception of these facts differs depending on your values and beliefs. There is nothing new…
What has the Sydney Morning Herald got against Anglican women?
I love the word bonkers. My mum used to say it all the time, and I just don’t seem to…
