Please explain… the polls
Recent polling has come as a great shock to those who have not been paying attention, and who are out…
One Nation rises as the broad church collapses
I’m the President of One Nation South Australia, and I was genuinely pleased when Cory Bernardi agreed to join our…
Did we learn anything from the first global warming debate?
One of the enduring and acrimonious controversies in Australian politics concerns the disagreements between those who believe obstinately in the…
The Epstein files have triggered a crisis in Britain
It is not just in Washington that the Epstein files continue to dominate. In Westminster, the political reverberations of the…
Will the Mandelson affair make loyalty a crime?
Nothing excuses the manner of Peter Mandelson’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein both before and after the latter’s conviction for sex…
Morgan McSweeney’s resignation won’t save Starmer
Morgan McSweeney has resigned, which felt inevitable but is still a shock to the government and to SW1 in general.…
The lanyard class is not ready for Reform in Scotland
The most reliable sign that Reform is doing well in Scotland is the refusal of the lanyard class to engage…
Sunday shows round-up: Pat McFadden defends Keir Starmer
Pat McFadden: ‘I don’t think it’s good for the country to change prime minister every 18 months’ Keir Starmer’s government…
How the Washington Post became a liability for Bezos
What does Jeff Bezos’s gutting of the Washington Post say about America’s sense of itself and of its place in…
Takeout with Woody, Soon-Yi and Epstein
The more salacious aspects of the Epstein files are well known – but what of the banal side of being…
Mandelson got five-figure sacking payoff
It’s a tough time for the nation’s finances – but don’t worry, one man is doing ok. Lord Mandelson received…
Why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus
Many teenagers today find Christianity off-putting because Jesus seems too fond of ‘mansplaining’. He appears to have a ‘God complex’,…
The UK is punishing dual-nationals like me
Clearing customs at Heathrow is about to get a lot more demanding for people like me. Hundreds of thousands of…
There’s untapped gold in Northern Ireland
As anyone familiar with Irish folklore knows, it’s a fool’s errand to look for Leprechaun gold at the end of…
The Mandelson scandal is far grubbier than the Profumo affair
The pundits are convinced that Peter Mandelson’s friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is the ‘biggest British political scandal since…
The miracle of India’s railways
‘Because it is the Indian Railways that makes India.’ When I have a loquacious personnel officer declare this in my…
Labor is wrecking our Defence heritage … for money
It’s Australia’s version of the Chagos Island deal
There will be few politicians like Jeane Freeman again
There is no shortage of noise in contemporary politics, nor of people keen to confuse it with authority. Jeane Freeman,…
Inside Texas’s messy Senate primaries
There used to be a political designation in the South of “Yellow Dog Democrats,” meaning voters who’d vote for a yellow dog if…
Angus Taylor: the last king?
It was presumed, from the eternal silence of the party room, that someone talked Angus Taylor off his horse while…
Why centrists have an anger problem
There is an argument that the (further) disgrace of Peter Mandelson has been magnified out of all proportion. Mandelson was fired from…
Pakistan’s terror problem is of its own making
At least 31 were killed and over 170 wounded in a suicide bombing targeting a Shia mosque in Islamabad on…
