Flat White
I’m not looking at the door
Ley’s looking at the beautiful landscape
Dealing with Trump
‘So they debated, willing things to be as they had always been, unwilling to know that events are made by…
The rapid death of free speech
There’s no doubt John Stuart Mill regards free speech as an essential characteristic of any liberal, democratic society. Mill argues,…
Why Labor polices speech, not the terror watchlist
Anthony Albanese’s post-Bondi hate speech bill, rammed through Parliament in chaotic January 2026 sessions, epitomises everything wrong with the Western…
The spirit of this great land
Wishing everyone a Happy Australia Day!
Back to 2014: For Syria, a new ISIS genocide is here
For friends and allies of the Kurdish people, their worst fears are being manifested. Kurdish, Christian, and Yazidi communities are…
Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs
The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party’s problems, but who is going to…
What would Menzies do?
Switching parties as a way to rebuild conservatism
The emperor has no clothes: Australia’s energy reality check
Renewables have become a progressive identity. Nuclear has been coded as conservative.
The NatCons do not tolerate antisemitism
I see my old sparring partner Louise Clegg has begun the new year where she left off in 2025 with…
An open letter to Australian leadership
On the nature of radical evil and the duties of power
Why Australia’s News Bargaining Incentive isn’t about news or bargaining
Through the proposed News Bargaining Incentive, Australia is considering how to force global digital platforms like Meta and Google to…
The silence of the lambs
How Australia is quietly training itself to obey
Australia is failing the test of history
Albanese did not lack information. He lacked resolve...
History never repeats?
History never repeats – that was a song by Split Enz back in 1981. The title is the opening line, with…
Prediction markets are not gambling
They are ‘open loops’ that produce actionable intelligence
Government to ban all sharks from having teeth
After three shark attacks in less than 24 hours, the government called an emergency session of Parliament and has now…
Are the ‘hate group’ laws all about control?
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Anthony Albanese must have been pondering these sage words as he presided…
Orange is the new blue
I am no longer a card-carrying Liberal. I’ve quit...
More shark attacks are inevitable
I wrote a piece for the Spectator last September in the wake of the fatal shark attack on Sydney Northern…
One Nation on the rise driven by the Opposition’s incompetence
Any poll taken in the next few weeks will show an even sharper increase in the vote for One Nation.…
Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault
From the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Following yesterday’s shemozzle, and after a good night’s sleep, I rode my new scrambler into…
The inversion of evil
When everything is fascism, nothing is
The test Australia is failing
A ritual of solidarity – and an indictment
US Supreme Court wades into the transgender issue
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) very recently heard arguments in two Constitutional cases involving the right of transgender women athletes…
