Cast members Jonny Carr and Geraldine Hakewell
John Howard and Tom Stoppard have something quite wonderful and rare in common: they are both members of the Order…
Asylum accessories
Alan Jones is wrong. The case of the Sri Lankan family whose deportation has been stalled illustrates what people smugglers…
Simon Collins
If last ditch Remainer attempts to block a no-deal Brexit fail, our head of state, already seen to have aided…
Energy notes
LNG is the new coal With the media spotlight focussed on activists, the Greens and even Pacific nations complaining about…
Gender notes
A new form of child abuse? In early May I wrote on the work of Professor John Whitehall, Chair of…
ABC of Pauline’s revenge
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has two Bills at hand to clobber the anti-conservative ABC. The first would force it to…
Below the belt —and road
In the Land of Oz, when Labor apparatchiks follow the yellow brick road to the end of the rainbow —…
Diary
It’s been a long time away from home in Tasmania. I arrived in Rome in early July to teach Latin…
Celebrity climate sting
I’m a mediocre guitar player. I’ve also said 12 lines in a one-act play. Neither of these activities gave me…
Alan Jones: tribune of the people
David Flint writes: Alan Jones, probably the most influential commentator in the Australian media has announced his retirement from leading…
White women on the hook
Martin Niemöller’s famous post-World War II quotation is as poetic as it is heart-breaking, as insightful as it is terrifying.…
Where’s our Greta?
Why is Australia being left behind on climate change? I don’t mean left behind in the sense of not doing…
We’re heading for a November election
Opposition parties will again vote against a general election on Monday. The debate between leaders of Labour, SNP, Liberal Democrats,…
Remainers may regret not backing an October general election
So there goes the reputation of Boris Johnson’s henchmen as cunning operators. It has been a bad week for Dominic…
Official: climate change denial is misogyny
The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In other words, those who don’t believe in…
Is Australia really a racist country?
The title of this article is a question; one that relates to Aboriginal people. So when I talk about whether…
Boris Johnson’s path to an early election
Although Downing Street has heralded today the ‘first day of the election campaign’, Boris Johnson is yet to be able…
Trump will be re-elected because of left-liberal stupidity
Not such a long time ago, in a galaxy that now appears far, far away, the public space was clearly…
Parliament wants to destroy the UK’s negotiating position
For onlookers it is astonishing to see the British establishment, commentators and a majority of MPs try to scuttle the…
What happened to the Conservative Party?
So now we know. There is no point in denying it and no advantage in wishing away plainly observable reality.…
Extremists have taken over the two main parties
Both main British parties are now characterised by intolerance of dissent, leader worship and racism. You can take a historical…
EXCLUSIVE: How Hong Kong hospitals fought to treat police violence victims
Hundreds of medical personnel from three hospitals across Hong Kong have staged sit-ins this week in resistance to the excessive…
Boris Johnson must find his inner Pericles and restore power to the people
It’s mind-boggling that we are still talking about Brexit three years after the British people voted to leave the European…
Boris Johnson denied election request – but snap poll remains likely
Boris Johnson has lost his third government vote – and his first bid for an early election. MPs voted against…
Boris Johnson will get an election in October, eventually
Labour’s split over the timing of any election has deepened this evening. In an interview with Andrew Neil, John Healey…
