What if Elizabeth Warren blows it in Houston?
Get your skates on! The Democrats on Ice roadshow rolls into Houston this evening, and the media are poised for…
Yellowhammer is yet another example of Project Fear
The Government’s yellowhammer report on planning assumptions for Brexit will go down in history as a key document in the…
Can you imagine a lobbyist against women’s rights being made a peer?
This is a thought-experiment. Imagine the following scenario: A Conservative Prime Minister is dishing out peerages. Among the people given…
Why is Nigel Farage being so emollient to the Tories?
In verbal ding dongs Nigel Farage usually gives as good as he gets. But he has been oddly restrained in…
The French city zones where police rarely escape unscathed
In December 2015, Donald Trump claimed parts of the French capital were no-go zones for the police. ‘Paris is no…
GetUp’s child slavery
In or around 1212, according to legend, bands of children from northern Europe led by a boy Stephen of Cloyes…
What’s woke this week
The corporate world has been woking up a storm this week with cultural appropriation and socially just ice cream hitting…
Beware the ‘bill of rights’ trap when debating freedom of religion
Two recent events have exposed some serious misunderstandings on both the right and left about how Australia’s human rights protections…
John Bolton and the nationalist moment
John Bolton has left the White House and those of us who desire some modicum of peace in this world…
Why the Supreme Court should reverse the Scottish Court’s prorogation ruling
The Court of Session has ruled today that the Prime Minister’s advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament, and the…
Why Tom Watson is battling to change Labour’s Brexit policy
Why has Tom Watson given a speech about what his party leadership should do on Brexit? The party’s deputy leader…
The legal war of attrition against Brexit
Another week, another step along the road to Britain’s transformation into a kritarchy – rule by judges. Last week, the…
Blow for Boris as parliament may return early
The Court of Session’s verdict that prorogation is unlawful is a major headache for Boris Johnson. It makes the Supreme…
What sex is your penguin?
Humanity has anthropomorphised animals since time immemorial, from hunters-gatherers to Disney, so no wonder that contemporary madness is slowly seeping into…
Bushfire sense and nonsense
Bushfires are normal events in this season in tropical and subtropical latitudes of the southern hemisphere – in Australia, Africa…
Labour will not endorse Remain in a general election
Very important breaking news. Which is that trade unions, in their TULO meeting with Jeremy Corbyn, have tonight endorsed the…
Understanding Hong Kong’s fight
Most commentary on the Hong Kong protests from Western news outlets rightly champion the pro-democracy cause and scorn the ruthlessness…
John Bolton is Trump’s latest distraction
Donald Trump is declaring that he has fired John Bolton as national security adviser. Bolton is saying he offered to…
The three numbers that measure Britain’s constitutional crisis
Here in a few numbers is the measure of the catastrophic mess we are in; caused by failing to resolve…
The six strangest moments from Parliament’s prorogation protest
Early this morning at around 2am, the Commons witnessed some of the most extraordinary behaviour seen in the Chamber in living memory,…
Asking for the sisterhood: where have all the good men gone?
Equality between the sexes, so good in theory, doesn’t necessarily deliver in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the…
Who will replace John Bercow as Speaker?
Now that John Bercow has announced his imminent departure, an inevitable political bun fight will surely follow. The outgoing Speaker…
Italy: la dolce vita, le sistema disordinato
Holidaying in Italy is like wearing a mini skirt without knickers: the rules of the Australian nanny-state are cast aside…
GULAG aghast at Wayne Swan’s gender surrender
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: Swannie got his election analysis half right about why…
How many international students are too many?
The Centre for Independent Studies report ‘The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities’ presented the…
