The steel debate was an unseemly blame game
In the end, it was David Davis who said it best. Today’s emergency debate on how to save British Steel’s…
What is Xi Jinping planning?
Shanghai port is the busiest in the world. Activity there is closely monitored by financial analysts distrustful of official statistics…
Click-bait Bandt
One of our readers on Facebook observed that a recent article about Greens Leader Adam Bandt and his ‘right to…
Nationalising British Steel won’t fix a thing
There will be some stirring speeches about saving jobs. There will be lots of grand rhetoric about securing a great…
Trump tells Russia to ‘get moving’
With just under a week to go until the supposed Easter deadline, it appears that Donald Trump is no closer…
Greens grab victory in Lammy’s backyard
Westminster has a new tradition on Friday mornings: analysing council by-election results. These days, such contests rarely make for good…
Farage is leading Labour’s policy
For Reform’s supporters drawn from the right of the Conservative party, Nigel Farage’s call to nationalise British Steel never made…
First came the dire wolf – the wooly mammoth is next
With all the insane news this week surrounding President Trump’s tariff and trade drama, only one non-political story was significant…
Albo isn’t winning, but the Coalition is losing
Australians have every reason to be nervous about another three years of a Labor government. The last three years have…
I dreamt about the Coalition’s policy launch
The Coalition formally launches its election campaign on Sunday. After a fortnight of a Seinfeld election – an election about…
Orkney could be Britain’s gateway to the Arctic
Orkney is a charming archipelago of some 70 islands and skerries – 20 of which are inhabited – ten miles…
Have we got worse at dealing with stress?
Barely a month seems to pass without a public exhortation to ‘raise awareness’ about the plight of some marginal section…
Merz’s coalition treaty is an empty, promise-free shell
It took just over six weeks for the new German coalition to form. That is very quick: in the past…
The Dullists
Has Peter Dutton got what Paul Keating used to describe as ‘the mongrel’ in him? That was the question left…
Brown study
On present indications, the Coalition is heading for a loss in the coming election. The big excuse for this debacle…
Australian notes
I can well remember the elation I felt when Donald Trump was re-elected in November last year. I knew it…
The zenith of art
Last week your columnist cut a paragraph stating that the original Melbourne Higgins in My Fair Lady, Robin Bailey, and…
Aussie life
Like every country whose peace and prosperity has depended, for as long as most of its population has been alive,…
