Crying ‘fascism’ didn’t work before, and it won’t work now
‘Could we get a precise definition of fascism before all this kicks off today?’ So asked Merryn Somerset Webb, a senior columnist…
Why the French left are in uproar about the census
France’s 2025 census has ignited a predictable but exhausting row. The controversy centres on a seemingly innocuous question: ‘Where were…
Skiing is ghastly
Is anyone else getting a bit fed up of reading weepy newspaper stories about how the skiing industry is being…
Should Britain join an EU defence scheme?
The UK and Europe have had plenty of time to get to grips with the inevitable, that President Donald Trump…
Trump may turn on America’s new oligarchy
The word ‘oligarch’ returned to the media lexicon at Donald Trump’s inauguration this week when some of the world’s biggest…
‘Bashar was my friend’: the former Assad minister on why he didn’t flee Syria
Amr Salem mingles cheerfully with foreign investors and members of Syria’s interim government in a five-star hotel in Damascus, and…
Trump unshackles Australia Day
Great things happened this week. Donald Trump multitasked his way into office as the liberator of Western culture, and The…
Shoppers like me will pay the price for Waitrose’s free coffee perk
Freeloaders rejoice: Waitrose is bringing back free coffee for customers even if they don’t buy anything. This is a bad…
Alarming antisemitism
As the country prepares for Australia Day, many Australians fear what is happening to our tolerant society. It has taken…
Brown study
Here at the Joseph Stalin Centre for Law Reform – and before we go any further, we do not want…
Truly a sliding door moment
Will Australians vote to stay on the Labor train or switch to the Coalition?
Australia the outlier
The cowardice of the Liberals is putting them in last place in the Anglosphere
Nothing like a Dame
Art takes every possible shape and size. The exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e prints (running at the National Gallery of Australia…
Aussie life
The public shaming of elite pole vault coach Alex Parnov reminds me of the time I was sent to cover…
Language
We missed it! Back on January 18 we should have been celebrating National Thesaurus Day. Mind you, the day is…
The Reagan effect on wine lists
Let us indulge in a slight paraphrase. What rough beast slouches towards the White House to be reborn? The inauguration…
My neighbour has kidnapped my beavers
My beavers have been kidnapped. A few months ago there were five of them living on my family’s farm on…
