Never forget the evil of October 7
The price of coffee could lose Albo the election
The price of coffee is set to become an election-defining issue after the Prime Minister was ridiculed and community-noted across…
Defiling Asimov’s Laws
Laymen concerned by the encroachment of AI assume CEOs and world governments are designing the digital age loosely around the…
Silence of the Lambie
Remember when Jacqui Lambie fantasised about throwing Elon Musk in jail? I had forgotten until Damian Coory pointed it out…
Kevin Rudd might be … right(?!)
Carrying on the great political tradition of ‘never buggering off’, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is back – sort of…
Never forget the evil of October 7
It seems like only yesterday, but it was in fact three years ago when David Adler rang me on that…
From Reith to Rishworth and beyond
In 1993, Peter Reith wrote in his diaries and republished in his memoir, The Reith Papers, that even though the…
Rumble in the shallows
Coogee has always known how to draw a crowd. On Anzac Day 1935, a tiger shark on display at the…
Louise Clegg is right about the Teals. Now, the hard part…
I should declare a bias. I have always been a little wary of Louise Clegg’s view of the world, partly…
Chris Bowen doesn’t need a Khemlani, he’s got you and me
Whitlam’s infamous Minister for Minerals and Energy, Rex Connor, set in motion the wheels that led to The Dismissal on…
Flight 1073 and what we can learn from modern-day Spartans
While we celebrate the heroism that saved many lives on board Flydubai flight 1073, we should take the opportunity to…
Multiculturalism and the great Australian levelling
With One Nation now polling at or above Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition a distant third, Australia appears to be…
Iran needs another Cyrus the Great
At a time when Iran’s name has once again become a focus of international attention, the recent remarks by Benjamin…
Bill 691 and the French crisis of trust
France is once again on the streets. Across the country, students are protesting over overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating educational conditions.…
Albo was the only person who thought coffee would get cheaper
In a classic case of not having a clue, Anthony Albanese has made himself out to be the goose we…
Never stop campaigning
Donald Trump is a perpetual campaigner, whether in or out of office. We only have to look to the recent…
Who should we blame for high inflation?
It would make my life easier if Australia’s inflation problem had a simple cause done by a single villain. Alas,…
Listen to the Alborithm
One of the defining features of our age is the tendency for ostensibly democratic governments to introduce legislation that curtails…
Can beleaguered Victoria rise from Labor’s ashes?
With the ‘attention-sapping’ AFL football season over, many critical questions are starting to weigh on the minds of Victorian voters.…
Pauline Hanson: The problem woman (for the left)
This week, David Shoebridge defeated Mehreen Faruqi and Sarah Hanson-Young to become the new leader of the radical Greens party.…
You are NOT watching Rowan Dean
Notification 1A: Digital Duty of Care and Net Zero Misinformation You’re not watching Rowan Dean on TV, on social media,…
ALBO, THE COFFEE WHISPERER – Labor might be the worst economic managers of all time | S3 Ep 22
In this episode… Albo’s ‘not-so-cheap’ coffee. ☕️ Is Jim Chalmers a good Treasurer? Is the 5% house deposit scheme causing…
GLOBALIST IN CHIEF – Albanese accepts his award & Trump cancels ‘Fake News’ Media | S3 Ep 21
This week… Javier Milei ‘rips the United Nations to shreds’. Albanese’s good little globalist award. Digital Duty of Censorship… I…
SILENCE OF THE ROYALS – Spencer’s memoir and the death of the last Royal carriage maker | S3 Ep 20
This week with Professor David Flint. Does the ghost of Princess Diana still pose a threat to King Charles’ legacy?…
Return of the King
King Coal is back! This week the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission gave permission for two coalminers in the…
Brown study
I don’t know if Anthony Albanese actually learned anything from his recent sojourn at the United Nations, but I doubt…
You will live in a dog box and be happy!
I think someone needs to tell the hapless Housing Minister, Clare O’Neil, that the government’s housing target of an additional…
Time to fix our universities
This week I’m going to really depress readers, and especially those over the age of about thirty-five. You see, when…
Teal deal is dead
Remember what the teals were going to do? In 2022, they were going to change Australian politics. The Morrison government…
Australia – the failing state
Australians are getting poorer, and they know it. Real wages are going backwards as prices outpace pay packets. Productivity, the…
Trump’s honest bribe
Donald Trump has written the finest political satire of the decade. He did it in one sentence in Dallas this…
Shaggy God story
Every seven years or so there is a breathtaking announcement by an American fundamentalist Protestant group claiming they have found…
Albo’s left hook
Larissa Waters’ sudden resignation prompted a closer look at the political menagerie otherwise known as the Greens as they went…
How the far left plans to take over AI
Where else would our far-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese go, other than the United Nations, to sound the alarm and…
Not OKKK
‘Is it heartening for you to see someone like anti-immigration Pauline doing well in Australia?’ asked the Channel Nine journalist.…
Bad laws outlive their victims
England once taxed daylight. It did so for 155 years. That is the number to keep in mind as we…
There will never be another Jeffrey Archer
The news of the death of Jeffrey Archer at 86 came in somehow typical circumstances. The bestselling novelist, Conservative peer…
Jeffrey Archer, interviewed
Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. The novelist and former Conservative party deputy chairman died ‘suddenly and…
Why are progressives so desperately devoted to the BBC?
The BBC is lopping bits of itself off again. On the amputation list this time around, according to the Gurdian,…
Why are so many children not potty trained by school?
Parenting in 2026 can sometimes feel like a nauseating all-you-can-eat competition. Without a traditional ‘village’ to turn to, you consume a…
Is Andrew staging a comeback?
The past year has not been a happy one for the royal formerly known as Prince Andrew. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has…
Man City, not Arsenal, really represents Britain
When you hear that that something represents the best of Britain, treat it as nonsense. The phrase ‘best of British’…
How #Palestine became the ultimate elitist pursuit
Few places make for a less likely fashion hub than the agricultural community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.…
Is it really true that a mosque is attacked every five days in Britain?
A new body paid millions of pounds to be the Government’s official monitor of anti-Muslim hatred has made multiple false claims about…
Will Jon Ossoff’s luck last long enough for a run at the presidency?
Once upon a time, the export crop of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket was whale oil. Nowadays it is money, harpooned…
What’s it like to get sick in Cuba?
I have dengue, a vile and potentially life-threatening virus given to me by an Aedes mosquito. For good reason, it…
The Bolsonaro comeback that has stunned the Brazilian left
Against all the odds, Flávio Bolsonaro – the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro – has come first in Brazil’s presidential…
Burnham and Farage don’t fear the Tories… yet
It was a big day for the Tory conference. There was a real celebrity in town. Normally the sort of…
Why you shouldn’t shrug at New Zealand’s greyhound racing ban
Greyhound racing ended in New Zealand on August 1. Those who neither own a greyhound nor care for the sport…
A New Zealand republic in Jacinda Ardern’s lifetime?
New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, believes the nation will become a republic within her lifetime. We have heard…
The row over English becoming an official language of New Zealand
Parliamentarians in New Zealand have been limbering up for an oddly unedifying debate over what ought to be the most…
What they don’t tell you about Christmas in New Zealand
‘I still think New Zealand the most beautiful country I have ever seen,’ Agatha Christie marvelled in 1922. Evidently she’s…
Andy Burnham begins the long march left
From another world
It’s striking what we can experience if we look back at the images of the recent past, aided by YouTube.…
An elegance that is hair-raising
Sometimes cultural news is just bad news. Everyone was delighted at the thought that Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland was being turned…
A gorgeous evocation of the natural world
The world of artistic expression runs in a thousand ways. The Melbourne Symphony’s Spring Gala – paralleling the Opera’s Wagner…
A man of great suavity
They were both films that stay in the mind from a lifetime ago. Peter Pan is J.M. Barrie’s contribution to…
Did the Bayeux Tapestry succeed as a tool of Norman propaganda?
It makes for a good pub quiz question: what has 632 people, 202 horses, 55 dogs, 41 ships and only…
A passion for music: Partita, by Barbara Kingsolver, reviewed
Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling novels tackle political and social issues and win prizes, among them the Pulitzer and Women’s Prize for…
The triumph of virtue over fear and malice: The Bridge, by Colm Tóibín, reviewed
A small, beautiful book about betrayal, the cost of isolation and the persistence of human decency, Colm Tóibín’s The Bridge…
Abstract ideas made concrete
The Iron Curtain, or at least its most visible symbol, was not metal. Berlin’s Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (Anti-Fascist Protection Wall) was…
‘I shall always want to say thank you to this country’: the gratitude of a former kindertransport refugee
For all that it is an anachronism, the House of Lords contains some remarkable specimens, not least Alf Dubs. The…
Terrorism nearly always fails – so where does that leave the ‘freedom fighter’?
This book begins with rueful comments on the absence of philosophy from terrorism literature. The phenomenon is frequently analysed through…
Battling the elements – Claude Monet’s litany of anguish
For a painter we acknowledge as a master of atmospheric effects and ever-changing light, whose early work ‘Impression, Sunrise’ sparked…
Warnings, omens and the end of days: the surreal times of the Emperor Charlemagne
I don’t know if it is still the case, but there was a time in London when the ring of…