CBD: when it comes to principle vs principal, Australian Rugby outdoes any pol
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Freedom should never be an election issue. Just imagine if people started voting on…
Uh-oh, Generation Z are voting
One of the many groups in whose hands the fate of our nation lies, is generation Z. Though it has…
Democrats, not Republicans, will dismantle Obama’s legacy
Last week Barack Obama, grayer, wearier and older in every way, was in Berlin at one of his foundation’s conferences for ‘emerging…
The Trump 2020 campaign is much, much more formidable than 2016
Almost every day, somebody somewhere recycles the idea that President Donald J. Trump doesn’t want to be president. He never…
Here’s hoping for a better week for freedom in Australia
Our national anthem begins with the triumphant line Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free. But…
How Britain can make life difficult for the EU during the Brexit extension
It is not good form for the British to be awkward and obstructive. The art of the compromise was the…
Election 2019: A song of Lies and Ire
The dragons are back – as is Cercei, Jon Snow, Danerys Targeryn, Sansa and Arya Stark and the rest of…
CBD: GetUp – organic grassroots movement or some strange GMO?
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Slip, slop, slap. What an election winning strategy for us CBDs announced by BS…
Backwards & Forwards: towards the campaign black hole
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Last Thursday, the eternal sunlight of the spotless mind erased…
A case study: how energy policies kill jobs and business – and Labor will be worse
The fall into administration of Queensland company Claypave, established as Rylance Colliery and Brickworks in Ipswich in the 1880s, points…
Let’s aim to be radically civil
In a period of political polarisation and rabid tribalism, we have lost the art of disagreeing well. Next month’s federal…
CBD: total poverty equals absolute equality
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: The Murdoch media along with the hard right are at it again. So what…
Which way will Corbyn go on Brexit?
In September, Labour conference will impose on Jeremy Corbyn a policy of backing a second referendum in all circumstances. So,…
It’s the stupid, economy
Trust Labor to get it arse about. Bill Clinton famously used the mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” to win the…
Brexit need not tear the Tories apart. Here’s why
The political dysfunction in Parliament seems to be rubbing off on much of our commentariat. Many have concluded that the…
The soiling of Julian Assange
Here’s an intense irony for you. The journalistic activity for which Julian Assange has been indicted in the Eastern District…
CBD: Electric car lobby runs out of charge
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: The effected consternation about the electric car vision is a dazzling insight into SM…
It’s vital to keep good relations with our EU allies – and we need a leader who’s up to the challenge
The European Union’s official goal — an ever-closer union of people — remains its single most attractive feature. Our continent…
Portrait of the week: Brexit flextension, the demise of Debenhams and a real shower in the Commons
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, wrote to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, asking for an extension…
What would Jon Snow have said about the Athenian assembly?
Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow announced at a recent ‘Leave’ rally that he had never seen so many white…
Eight things claimed to be worse than smoking
Flextensions Some organisations which may have benefited from Donald Tusk’s offer of a ‘flextension’ to Article 50: — Adidas, which…
Letters: Of course Brexit is David Cameron’s fault
All Cameron’s fault Sir: In this time of febrile political speculation, there can have been few more arresting subject headings…
Is it Islamophobic to disagree with Baroness Warsi?
In his famous speech to both Houses of Parliament in March 1960, General De Gaulle praised Britain: ‘Although, since 1940,…
A general election is now Brexit’s last best chance
It’s been even more humiliating second time round. The United Kingdom has again been reduced to asking the European Union…
The transgender agenda could topple intersectionality
It is a great disappointment to me that my phrases don’t get picked up by other writers and then society…
