Labor unleashes the Jew-haters
The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge
Who is spearheading the political narrative of Australia? Is it the robust debate between Coalition and Labor – the elected…
Starmer’s artificial intelligence
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer started the week with some hardcore deflection. Despite throwing nasty allegations at Elon Musk, Starmer…
Just Stop Oil desecrated Charles Darwin’s grave
Desecrating the grave of the UK’s most famous scientist might seem like a strange thing to do for members of…
Just add water
My personal view? There is not enough emphasis given to the danger of unintended consequences. The tragic state of our…
The post-Christian world is not pretty
Historian Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, is the latest high-profile academic to convert to Christianity…
Trump’s threats reawaken Canadian nationalism
Canadians are living through interesting times. There are a few days left before Donald Trump officially returns to the White…
Whatever happened to the Ice Age?
We are in the middle of another (supposedly) ‘unprecedented’ summer, so it is no surprise that sensationalising social media is…
Labor’s $3 billion NBN gamble
Anthony Albanese wants to throw more money into the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) black hole. To me, it smells like…
Farms for food: fossils for fuel
A cover story in The Economist, entitled, The coming food catastrophe, compiled sobering facts regarding worldwide food production and distribution.…
Slash the tax
Australian businesses can rescue our standard of living if the government gets serious about tax reform. Only through productivity growth…
Why it is vital the Victorian Liberals get it right this time
Australians in other states have long taken a quizzical view of Victorian politics. Many are rightfully baffled by the Victorian…
Housing catastrophe?
A recent newspaper article asked university students how they would solve the current housing crisis. The article suggested that we…
Australia’s success, girt by sea and golden sands
Is the story of Australia a horn of plenty or a cornucopia which we systematically fail to celebrate each year…
Reckless renewables: what’s the real cost to Australians?
In 2024, I finally checked off a major bucket list item: travelling west across the continent by train and returning…
The Six Triple Eight is nonsense
What comes to mind when you hear the word brave? Possibly it’s a vision of Allied soldiers storming the beaches…
The decline of the West: a lament from above
In the voice of Winston Spencer Churchill, published from On High. As I gaze down from the eternal battlements of…
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Rape of the innocents
On 9 January, Labour MPs were three-line whipped into blocking a national inquiry into organised gangs of Pakistani Muslims who…
Where are the righteous of Gaza?
The most distressing aspect of Israel’s prolonged defensive war against the barbaric Hamas terrorists is the plight of the remaining…
Climate cult burns in LA
The religious mindset embraces the belief that there is more to life than the material world of the senses. There…
Can Syria’s Islamists change their spots?
Hope suppresses the reality of the future of Syria. Pundits were wrong about the Arab Spring, projecting perspectives into uprisings…
Oh Canada
I couldn’t figure out what the loud noise was. It was the Speccie crowd celebrating the resignation of woke poster-boy,…
Was MH370 shot down by the CCP?
Did MH370 really fly all the way down to the southern hemisphere, crashing in the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO) west…
Making Keating’s mistake
As the next federal election looms, Labor’s reliance on personal attacks against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is drawing sharp criticism,…
Labor unleashes the Jew-haters
Even before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is a casebook study in everything Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is not. Mr…
How Trump shaped the Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal
After days of increasing optimism, Qatari prime minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani summoned the press last night to announce…
The Chagos Islands deal that Starmer ignored
As Mauritius and the UK scramble to finalise the terms of a treaty to hand over the Chagos Islands before Donald…
Is public sector headcount out of control?
Eyebrows were raised in the House of Lords this week as the Justice and Home Affairs Committee heard evidence that…
What does Greenland have that Trump wants?
Donald Trump’s favourite President, William McKinley, added Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the American fief at the turn of…
Operation Resolution: cleaning up after HMNZS Manawanui
HMNZS Manawanui, formally a chirpy red and yellow MV Edda Fonn, sank on October 6 much to the shock of…
Why is this New Zealand airport clamping down on hugs?
‘Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world,’ Hugh Grant famously offered in the heartwarming opening scene of Love,…
How New Zealand managed to sink a tenth of its naval fleet
New Zealand just lost one tenth of its naval defence fleet. The HMNZS Manawanui – the jewel in the nation’s small military…
How does New Zealand solve a problem like China?
New Zealand’s most important trading partner is also the nation’s biggest security headache, according to a new risk-assessment report produced…
The folly of Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal
Pacific Paradise Lost
Back in the childhoods of the baby boomers everyone seemed to know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 because there…
The triumph and tragedy of Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery was outrageously funny. And he was funny because he was outrageous. The actor and comedian, who died yesterday…
Thrillers
It’s funny the preconceptions you have about the Christmas/New Year period. I hadn’t anticipated seeing Juror #2 the new Clint…
Summer Reading
There are a thousand ways of celebrating the Christmas holiday that are culture specific but have a universal appeal. You…
We are all people of faith, whether we realise it or not
A.J. Ayer and other thinkers linked to the Vienna Circle famously contradicted themselves. A claim such as ‘all truths are…
Red-letter days for Gilbert & George
James Birch is a somewhat mysterious art dealer and curator, whose first great triumph was mounting a Francis Bacon exhibition…
The beauty and tedium of the works of Adalbert Stifter
A commercial publisher bringing out a book of old academic essays on Austrian writers, some completely unknown to English readers,…
The awful calamity of Stalin being a music lover
At around 9 p.m. on 5 March 1953 Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his…
The next best thing to visiting a really clever friend in New York
I was on the phone to a friend recently, who asked me what I was reviewing. ‘It’s a book by…
Time is running out to tackle the dangers posed by AI
Is this what it felt like in the months before August 1914? Or during the years leading up to September…
The golden days of Greenwich Village
This multitudinous chronicle is not the story of the folk music revival. Rather, it’s not only the story of the…
The horror of Hungary in the second world war
I suspect Adam LeBor and his publishers must have struggled to come up with the title The Last Days of…