Pauline Hanson offers Angus Taylor support to stop ISIS fighters returning
According to Credlin on Sky News Australia, Pauline Hanson has written to Angus Taylor offering One Nation support for any legislation…
Victoria … now what?
Federal Liberal Party president Tony Abbott has emerged to back the disendorsement of Moira Deeming. The Victorian Liberal Party made…
The India question and Labor’s geopolitical ignorance
Defence is not a game. Our geopolitical advantages are not trivial election pieces to be moved around the board. And…
Before Lindsey Graham died
America was shocked by the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham who, it has been reported, died after a short…
Vikki Campion’s warning: Mess with Barnaby and meet your match
People have been bagging out Barnaby Joyce for rousing on his dog while doing an interview on an iPhone on…
Australian ‘gun’ culture?
Why are some humans so fascinated by guns? Turn on the TV and it’s everywhere. The cultural might of the…
Inflation, politics, and Australia’s lost decade
Inflation is back in headlines, and Labor is busy spinning stories about geopolitics and supply chain disruptions. Meanwhile, the opposition…
The prosperity paradox
Seneca was one of the wealthiest men in ancient Rome. He possessed immense wealth, political influence and every luxury the…
Pilbara strike exposes union
When just a few hundred workers can bring Australia’s most important export gateway to a standstill, something has gone badly…
Waiting for the counter-reformation
Four of the great membership institutions of Australian life are emptying out at once, and we explain each one differently.…
What if small businesses went on strike against Labor?
The trouble with Labor governments is that they live by Karl Marx’s maxim: ‘From each according to his ability, to…
A hub for division
The Australian Labor government launched a $6 million Social Cohesion Education Hub (SCE Hub) on June 30, to ‘address antisemitism…
Australia must engage with the man Iranians are calling for
Australia has already acknowledged the undeniable truth about the Islamic regime occupying Iran. In November last year, the Albanese government…
We have not lost the knowledge. We have lost the nerve…
We have all been stuck behind that car. Right-hand lane, twenty under the limit, no indicator, eyes down on the…
One Nation polling proves ‘The Establishment’ can’t be trusted
The attacks keep coming for One Nation from both sides of politics and the media. Yet amid last week’s claims…
The twilight of the radical Net Zero agenda
Paul Kelly’s imminent book The Twilight of Exceptionalism clarifies the dominant role that what President Trump labels ‘the climate con’…
Sixty years of hurt and seven Prime Ministers
In this time of political and social instability, there are two things I know for certain. Football is not coming…
Why OpenAI and Anthropic will never see Wall Street
Anthropic and OpenAI have spent the past few years laying the groundwork for public listings, but the path to a…
Multiculturalism and social cohesion
In addition to investigating and making recommendations to confront antisemitism, the Royal Commission established by the Commonwealth Labor government is…
A beautiful sight during the beautiful game
The World Cup proved once again what the left resolutely fails to understand: the path to overcoming racism is patriotism.…
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner loses again – A victory for free speech | Celine Baumgarten S3 Ep 18
Celine Baumgarten (Celine Against the Machine) has celebrated her SECOND victory against the eSafety Commissioner. This wasn’t only a personal…
Did Donald Trump conquer the world with witty insults? | Joel Gilbert S3 Ep 17
Did Donald Trump conquer the world with witty insults? I’m joined by Joel Gilbert to discuss the genius of humour…
Digital tyranny or ‘child safety’? 😵 & the bitcoin revolution | Efrat Fenigson S3 Ep 16
When Australia’s Under 16 social media ban started locking adult political writers out of #Substack – it was just the…
Plumbing vs climate change
We had the plumber in the other day, and were grateful that he even turned up. Although he charged us…
Who you gonna trust, baby?
If you were asked to boil down today’s Australian and British right-of-centre politics to one short question, this would be…
A constitution to rule them all
Last week was about scrutiny, with Barnaby Joyce declining, as One Nation’s Treasury spokesman, to commit to costing One Nation’s…
The lessons our schools need to teach
Earlier this month, America marked the 250th birthday of its Declaration of Independence. This anniversary should also matter to Australians.…
The coming AI bust
Nearly 200 economists including 15 Nobel laureates and tech leaders this month issued a statement that warned artificial intelligence poses…
Racketeering on an industrial scale
When the 50th anniversary ALP national conference kicks off in Adelaide this week, Labor’s ties to the trade union movement…
The monetisation of murder
Invited to address a rally in defence of Beijing’s victims on a freezing day in Sydney, I referred to media…
Cool it, lefties, we all need air con
This summer, Europe has experienced a wave of record-breaking temperatures. Southern France hit 44 degrees Celsius. Naturally, the French took…
Wes Streeting is clueless about Israel
As Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, in his first speech as head of the terrorist group’s political bureau, promised to ‘continue…
Is Ed Miliband preparing to take on Donald Trump?
Just one day after Ed Miliband was made Foreign Secretary we heard in the Telegraph that the White House is upset about the appointment,…
Does Jameela Jamil really think Brits ‘are the most evil in history’?
Have you heard of Jameela Jamil? No, me neither, though I’m told she’s worryingly influential. This British-born ‘actress, comedian, activist…
Burnham isn’t being honest about his bus fare cap
Al Gore never quite recovered from claiming, in 1999, that ‘I took the initiative in creating the internet.’ The former…
Andy Burnham is much more nostalgic than Nigel Farage
The strange thing about our new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s professed wish to return to the 1970s, to a prelapsarian…
Grant Shapps misses out on Tory selection
The Tories are stepping up their seat selections, amid increased speculation that a new Prime Minister will mean an early…
Why is Andy Burnham scolding his own ministers already?
Andy Burnham’s new government, barely 24 hours in power, is in danger of collectively losing its marbles. The fault lies…
Is Andy Burnham really committed to devolving power?
Andy Burnham’s third day in office tells us much about the man. This morning he unveiled his latest proposal to…
Energy investor that bailed on Britain IPOs for $230 million
Britain is losing out as a result of its changeable energy policy. That’s the main takeaway from Samos Energy’s recent…
Stella Creasy’s bird-brained parrot alert
Walthamstow has anyone lost a parrot? There’s one in Lloyd park right now! Please share to help reunite it with…
Why is Glasgow trashing its architectural heritage?
It’s a big summer for Glasgow. Fresh from twinning with Boston after the Tartan Army’s World Cup antics entranced the…
Why aren’t American companies passing on tariff refunds?
Even for an economy as large as the United States, $70 billion still counts as a significant sum of money.…
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…
What will Jacinda Ardern do next?
When I first met Jacinda Ardern in the early 2010s, the notion that the young MP with the toothy smile…
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a triumph
High Antipodean
The death of that fabled cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers – one of the greatest all-rounders who ever lived – is…
A Treasury on YouTube
It’s strange how much we take for granted the world we inherit, which is available to us on YouTube for…
To be trans Hamlet or not to be
Is there something strange about seeing a great comedian who identifies as a trans woman do a solo Hamlet, the…
Tip-Toeing in Manchester
The world knows that Andy Burnham, the ‘King from the North’, was a very successful mayor of Manchester. There have…
Unlucky break: All In, by Claire Powell, reviewed
Claire Powell’s first novel, At the Table (2022), delineated a year in the life of the Maguire family from south…
New York crime caper: Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead, reviewed
Cool Machine, the final novel in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy (following Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto), is another tour de…
Why spiders deserve our respect, not fear or disgust
I had not thought much about spiders until I read Maria Tatar’s Arachnomania; now I can think of little else.…
Adolescent anxieties: Schoolgirl, by Osamu Dazai, reviewed
In June 1948, the writer Osamu Dazai and his last love, Tomie Yamazaki, drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Aqueduct near…
When Mum went marching with the EDL
Nicola Wilding is a documentary film producer, whose family was originally rural working class. Aged 60, her mother, Sandra, prompted…
Why Cicero’s life and times have never seemed more relevant
How should we think about Cicero? He was the orator who claimed that he did his best to save the…
Will any lone fanatic soon be capable of bioterrorism?
In the summer of 2020, while the country was between ‘waves’ of Covid, Dominic Cummings convened a meeting at my…
An alternative Paris: Château Rouge, by Amit Chaudhuri, reviewed
Nearly ten years ago, the author, critic and classical Indian musician Amit Chaudhuri took up a visiting fellowship in Paris.…