Veterans deserve better
The Chalmers diet
Sydney’s working class look hungry. By that I mean, they are getting noticeably thinner. My advice to the political class…
Nepal and the scam of climate reparations
When the Earth shakes – climate reparations fall out. That may be the eventual lesson of the Nepal flood that…
Why is Albanese so defensive about Bowen’s tropical talkfest?
The Prime Minister appeared distinctly agitated when answering questions about Bowen’s expensive and poorly attended paradise climate talkfest in Fiji.…
Is offshore wind a defence risk?
Here are two things worth considering… Firstly, green energy projects and state government agendas envision a version of Australia essentially…
Remembering September 11: still reeling 25 Years on
It’s 25 years since that fateful day when a whole new reality crashed in on our world and set civilisation…
Veterans deserve better
In the May Budget, the Labor government, through Veterans’ Affairs Minister Matt Keogh, announced a $5,000-a-year cap on veterans’ allied-health…
We have not forgotten
It is my view that the Liberal Party and News24 are making a serious mistake by persistently conflating the Ben…
Please never explain
You may have heard I’ve been working as a barista, driving a school bus, and driving a truck in regional…
AOC and the parasocial nature of politics
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who often goes by AOC, recently took to the internet to share that she would be freezing…
Restoring choice for stay-at-home parents
There is little to no defence from those in the modern Liberal Party of Malcolm Fraser. Even rarer is any…
Vale Jim Frecklington – an Australian craftsman for the ages
Australia has lost one of its most extraordinary and most artistic craftsmen. Jim Frecklington, royal coachmaker, horseman, artist, and patriot,…
Another attempt at internet censorship
As we outlined earlier this year, recent years have seen a steady stream of government proposals to crack down on…
One Nation stands against extremism on both sides
Immigration is the question of our generation. How we, as legislators and citizens, answer it will determine what sort of…
One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit?
The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been meteoric. With the collapse in the Coalition’s polling, its own documented…
Beggars beware! The government is here to ‘help’
The Victorian government is proposing to decriminalise begging as an offence, but is this benevolence or perhaps something else more…
Establishment attacks! Pauline explodes leftie brains
Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of…
Woke, broke, ridiculed Victoria
This moment in Victoria’s history could not be more critical. With about 70 days until the most pivotal state election…
Throwing the first stone
There’s a quote I remember from my Sunday School days that has been brought to mind by this week’s news…
Politicians discover men
How refreshing to hear a man in power call out the bias baked into our institutions against men. Let alone…
Superannuation needs a new public debate
Fundamentally, superannuation is in place to ensure today’s income earners finance their own retirement. Around the world, old-age pensions, provided…
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…
Hastie & Pickering
It’s fascinating to compare the current imbroglio between two potential political leaders: Warren Pickering, of whom nobody had ever heard…
If 9/11 happened today
Twenty-five years on, if the 9/11 terrorist attack by al-Qaeda happened today, the response in Australia and countries such as…
The Plibersek paradox
It’s surely impossible to imagine Tanya Plibersek – Plibbers to most of us – ever being the prime minister of…
Business/Robbery, etc
Good news? Or the harbinger of a China-led destruction of the world financial order? When Australian gold exports soared last…
How the party elected to tackle debt fuelled it instead
That the Australian economy is in a mess should not surprise. It should also not surprise that the Albanese government…
Save Nepal – ban continental drift
India started to pull away from Antarctica 132 million years ago and 112 million years ago India fully detached from…
Climate exposé ignored
Artificial intelligence has an unintended talent to entertain through its predictability. Challenge elite orthodoxy on global warming and AI will…
Legacy media don’t get it
There seems to be an almost obtuse wilful blindness amongst the preponderance of those in our traditional, established political parties…
Pauline’s paper premiers
After the summer Pauline Hanson returned from Britain with Nigel in her handbag, even though he declined to meet her.…
Labor’s secret alborithm
Secret Harbour was Labor’s not-so-secret nightmare: a seat it had held since 1989 fell in a landslide to One Nation,…
Hoax of an inquiry
It is now clear that the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, designed to investigate the horrific Bondi massacre,…
Australian notes
One of the unforeseen consequences of the war in Gaza has been a significant erosion of freedom of speech in…
Do Harry and Meghan have a point about their security?
As soon as it was announced, somewhat unexpectedly, that Harry and Meghan would be returning to Britain, with the primary…
Why are white British pupils a minority at grammar schools?
White British students have become a minority in England’s grammar schools. In 2026, white British children made up just 44…
Britian’s public sector wage spiral
Britain is in a wage spiral – though not a traditional one. Instead, job and wage growth is surging in the…
Is Vigil right about Putin’s interest in Svalbard?
Speaking on the sidelines of the Brics summit in Delhi last week, Vladimir Putin once again insisted that Russia had…
Rory Stewart: send small boat migrants back to France
Who is tougher on immigration: Boris Johnson or Rory Stewart? It seems to be the former Tory MP turned podcaster…
Does Angela Rayner really think Reform’s donors are ‘fascists’?
Angela Rayner has used a big speech to the TUC to brand Reform’s biggest donors ‘a couple of off-shore billionaires…
Britain can help defeat the Houthis
In a lightning series of advances in the past week, the Houthis have captured Hanish and Zuqar Islands, the port…
The cynical genius of Sydney Sweeney’s latest advert
Sydney Sweeney is at it again. After causing a collective coronary for some very silly people last year by appearing in…
Ireland’s embarrassing fawning over Donald Trump
Usually, when an American politician makes some pronouncement about the inevitability of a united Ireland, it is invariably some Democrat…
When will the Ceuta disaster end?
How many of the migrants who crossed from Morocco to Ceuta at the end of July remain in the city?…
Watch: Polanski campaigns in Urdu for London seat
After securing the Green party nomination to stand in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Zac Polanski’s campaign is already…
David Cameron’s countryside call to arms
Rural Britons must revive the spirit of the Liberty and Livelihood march to fight back against Labour’s war on the…
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…
‘The plan is for the country to fall in love with Nigel again’: Richard Tice on what’s next for Reform
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…
The sexiest kind of rock star
It’s strange and sad what the world throws at us. We are assailed by musicals – a production of Reg…
This silly and drivelling piece of tosh
Every so often something comes along that is so bad it fills the soul with wonder and dismay. It seems…
This devastating portrait of Americana
It’s more than 75 years since Lee J. Cobb opened in Elia Kazan’s production of Death of a Salesman and…
A life lived to the hilt: Clare Consuelo Sheridan
Tall, blonde, beautiful, ruthless, brave and amoral to her fingertips (many of this biography’s paragraphs end with ‘The two became…
For better, for worse: Death Do Us by Ruthy Mason reviewed
Bea should be elated: her sweet and loyal boyfriend Jake has just proposed, with the family ring, over dinner. Instead,…
Stop moaning and do something: the active vs the passive voice
The Jamaican-American poet and essayist Claudia Rankine won a slew of prizes for her book Citizen (2014). Her blend of…
Pongs of praise: the history and importance of smell for our antisceptic age
For smell historians and experts, of whom there are gratifyingly more than you’d think, a standard assumption to be skewered…
First among equals: what makes a great leader and does it matter?
Almost two decades ago, Jared Diamond cemented his international reputation with Guns, Germs and Steel, which argued that geography and…
A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed
Readers of Mark Bowles’s All My Precious Madness (2024) will find much that is familiar in How Do People Stay…
Double jeopardy: the story of history’s most audacious KGB defector
Two spies meet in a white-tiled bathroom in Tehran. One large chap is perched on a creaking laundry basket, while…
She lived frantically ever after: the jaw-dropping life of Barbara Cartland
Matthew Sweet’s jaw-dropping life of Barbara Cartland opens with the grande dame reclining on her chaise longue in the library…