From moustache to extremist – the journey of ‘bigot’
How might an oath lend its name in England to a religious extremist and in Spain to a moustache? That…
Through thick and spin
Once upon a time, Britain sent Australia its excess convicts. These days we get Tony Blair’s old spin doctors, a…
Marxism’s rotten fruit
In his brilliant Intellectuals – From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Paul Johnson highlights the hypocrisy of what…
Dis-con notes
Wrong way, go back My last Dis-Con Note (‘Watching and hoping, Mr Morrison’, 13/07/19) pointed out that, despite his ‘miracle’…
Simon Collins
Thanks to the increasingly infantile appetite of cinema audiences and the laziness of modern screenwriters, two distinct but related film…
Ex-Pollie Pedal
Maybe it wouldn’t surprise you to know how constrained and routine most MPs’ lives become. It’s day after day of…
Euronotes
Re-stocking the knacker’s yard If there is an Englishman more hated by the European establishment than Boris Johnson, it’s Nigel…
Four ponies of the apocalypse
The open secret of Donald Trump’s political success is that he is always in the news. He seems to live…
ABC notes
Not the 7 o’clock news – brought to you by ‘their’ ABC Is the nation getting good value for the…
Latham’s law
In political history, 2019 will be remembered as the year Labor lost the unlosable election due to wrong-headed tax policies.…
King’s College choristers at ease
It was a beautiful autumn morning when we went up to Cambridge for a meeting at King’s College. Christopher Hogwood…
Distracting from real reform
Constitutional ‘recognition’ of the indigenous people is but the latest in a series of silver bullets proposed by the elites…
BoJo, ScoMo & Trump
Our heartiest congratulations to Boris Johnson on his elevation from proud and humble editor of this magazine to the prime…
Donald Trump, signed, sealed, delivered
Call it the Art of the Seal. When he spoke before several hundred youthful supporters at Tuesday’s Turning Point USA…
The public service are about to be told: pull your weight
The unexpected May 18 election results sent a chill through the ranks of Canberra’s public service class. Now, the Secretary…
Why a treaty is no answer
Australia, as with so many other Commonwealth nations settled by colonial force, has a difficult relationship with its Indigenous peoples.…
Can Boris Johnson overcome Jean-Claude Juncker?
I don’t know if Boris Johnson is as surprised to be prime minister as those who’ve known him for 20…
Seven of the most hysterical reactions to PM Boris Johnson
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is already delighting his supporters, but not everyone is happy about Britain’s new leader. Boris’s first…
No knockout left hook from Mueller
The question I hurled several times at my TV during the six-hour-long Mueller hearing at the House Judiciary Committee yesterday…
No, school choice does not cause ‘segregation’
The mental gymnastics displayed by some people in order to blame freedom of school choice for Australia’s education woes never…
Trump or The Squad: who’s doing harm?
The most insightful and quotable commentary I heard last week was made by Greg Gutfeld of Fox News. If you…
Mueller testifies – Trump wins
Robert Mueller’s appearance before two Congressional committees today was something close to a disaster for the Democrats. The former special…
The painful, pointless testimony of Robert S. Mueller III
If only his legs could reach that far, Rep. Jerry Nadler would be kicking himself now. Whose idea was it…
Boris is a weak man posing as a tough guy
Boris Johnson is taking over the Conservative party like a gangster taking over a crime syndicate. Don’t let ideological labels…
Dominic Raab has to handle a stand-off with Iran and his own civil servants
It’s not an easy time to become Foreign Secretary, as Dominic Raab is about to find out. There is, of…
