Reflections on the first week of Operation Epic Fury
Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, the joint US-Israeli campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, have begun to reduce…
Brutalism is beautiful
Is a concrete Brutalist complex as worthy of commemoration and preservation as a medieval cathedral or neoclassical stately home? The…
Kiran Desai: ‘All cultures are rooted in magic’
It wasn’t until a painting arrived in her post, a gift from the Italian artist Francesco Clemente, that Kiran Desai’s…
Badenoch can show Polanski what a real green party looks like
Freed from the burden of choosing a prospective government, by-elections are an opportunity for voters to tell the political class…
The Akrotiri attack has weakened Britain’s position in Cyprus
When RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was targeted in an attempted drone attack on Monday, it didn’t just leave the British government…
We shouldn’t celebrate Ian Huntley’s death
Ian Huntley’s graveside will be a lonely one. Few will mourn a man who lurked in the darkest shadows of…
Is this Iran’s first climbdown?
Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has announced that the country’s temporary leadership council has approved the suspension of attacks against neighbouring…
Ireland’s schizophrenic approach to Iran
On St Patrick’s day later this month, Taoiseach Micheal Martin will meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office. It could…
Is the US preparing for a long war against Iran?
Situation report The war in the Middle East shows no sign of slowing. Instead, there were heavy air strikes inside…
Saving Moira Deeming
Victorian Upper House member Moira Deeming is one of the most loved and respected conservatives anywhere in the country –…
Could the Kurds rise up against Iran?
The hopes of the United States and Israel to bring about quick regime change in Tehran – whether through millions of…
Why the Ayatollahs might be harder to remove than Trump thinks
According to the old Farsi proverb, if you want a peacock, you must suffer the hardships of travelling to India.…
How the culture war came for the Italian opera house
The Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci taught that for the revolution to succeed it should conquer the means of thought…
Spanish border guards won’t make Gibraltar less British
Almost a decade after Brexit, Gibraltar is entering a new era. As stipulated in a thousand-page treaty published on 26…
MrBeast needs an education in schooling
You may never have heard of Jimmy Donaldson, but if you have unsupervised children they almost certainly have. He’s a…
Running on empty
How Labor is turning fuel security into another Net Zero scam under the banner of ‘national security’
Pity the poor lefty
Pity the poor left-wing politician trying to wade through the Middle East moral swamp he or she now finds themself…
Brown study
Over the balmy summer months, while we were all concentrating on the tennis, a significant event occurred in Melbourne. It…
