The tiger in Antalya
Penny Wong vs Ralph Babet
United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet has a knack for getting under Labor’s skin and this week, he succeeded in…
The conservatives are coming
There have been some seriously deranged things written about CPAC by left-wing publications. Conservative leaders spoke on stage in front…
AI is a psychopath
Did anyone else catch that fleeting headline in the Daily Mail, claiming: Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make biological weapons…
Wake up, Bowen. Nap time is over!
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen doesn’t seem to be enjoying is multi-million-dollar pre-COP soirée. Aside from criticism that…
The ‘almost’ answers of our eternal political class
Have you ever tried asking a politician for a direct answer? How many times do you write to their office…
The invisible dragon beyond the castle walls
The greatest threat to our freedom may not be Artificial Intelligence (AI) but the political institutions determined to control what…
The tiger in Antalya
In March 1915, Winston Churchill was convinced the Turks were running low on ammunition. They were not. As First Lord…
Immersive French dining comes to Melbourne
Immersive dining might not sound like your thing. Falling into a tank at the aquarium and eating seafood from a…
France is burning again. Australia should take notice.
France has long embraced subversion. Its revolutionaries, rebellious students and intellectual provocateurs occupy a cherished place in the national imagination.…
CPAC failed to answer who will lead the Right to the next election
How does a divided centre right avoid the horror of handing Labor a third term to continue wrecking everything? That…
The pathetification of Australia
Britain arrests about 12,000 people a year for what they post online. That is roughly 30 a day, mostly under…
When does a police force become an army?
There are moments when a single sentence exposes the assumptions of an entire policy. On September 7, 2026, Israeli Defence…
One Nation, the only answer to Uniparty’s sinking ship
Sometimes there are moments when One Nation seems a bit over the top. Take for instance NSW One Nation leader…
Russia’s plague scare and the long shadow of Covid
The death of a young researcher at a Russian anti-plague laboratory has become one of the most closely watched public…
The High Court and the carbon dioxide hoax
On October 7, 2026, the Australian High Court rendered a judgment that places another roadblock in the tortuous approvals path…
Chalmers’ Budget five months on
The Chalmers Budget is regularly described in the media and by political commentators as having produced ‘unintended consequences’. These ‘unintended’…
Push back against your piano robot
Robots at the piano have recently debuted with the World Robot Conference in Beijing, specialised cultural-tech expos like the Gulangyu…
The Josh Frydenberg media tour
Am I alone among conservatives in thinking that the media hoopla surrounding Josh Frydenberg has become just a tad excessive?…
Climate attribution the ultimate abuse of science
The High Court decision against Mach Energy’s Mt Pleasant coal mine, on the basis of its supposed climate impact, is…
Forget ‘killer robots’: the bigger AI threat is to the meaning of life
It’s finally happened. The Terminator is here. Well, sort of. Last month in San Francisco, a YouTuber stepped into a…
CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISM BURNS FRENCH CULTURE – and Australia’s descent into censorship | S3 Ep 24
In this episode: Far-left riots bring France to its knees while President Macron attends #CelineDion concert. Australia’s Royal Commission into…
THE GREEN GROCERS OF THE APOCALYPSE – communism is back in fashion | S3 Ep 23
In this episode: The ‘Green’ Grocers of the apocalypse bringing communism via your weekly shop. Victoria collapsing underfoot – but…
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…
Conservative leadership
Sorry, Josh, you had your go. And you blew it. Politics is both a brutal and an unforgiving game. As…
If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists
Nobel Prize-winning economist, Friederich Hayek, argued the price system and market competition are the only effective ways to organise a…
Business/Robbery, etc
Back in the bad old days of a New South Wales state government that was ‘blessed’ with environmental warrior (and…
Pre-Cop flop
I have learnt from bitter experience to avoid the danger of the Hawaiian shirt. You know the sort of thing:…
From each according to the Greens
One of the many adverse consequences of the relentless growth of government in Australia is the ever-diminishing pool of people…
The wretched men of safety and the demise of the West
In 401 BC, the Greek general Xenophon addressed his men amid the peril of the Ten Thousand’s retreat: ‘In soldiering,…
Epicentre of jihad
Much of the world’s attention remains fixed on the Middle East as the traditional heartland of violent Islamist extremism, or…
Josh goes Jobseeking
Loyal Liberals winced at the weekend when Pauline Hanson branded Angus Taylor ‘a smarmy management consultant’, but they shouldn’t. The…
Uber and out
My Uber driver last week was an electrical engineer. He drives part-time, between contracts. He was good company, knew his…
Trillion-dollar suicide note
Not one of the many theories concerning the impact of man-made carbon dioxide emissions on the climate has been proven.…
Third anniversary, October 7
The release of the Coalition’s immigration policy coincided with the third anniversary this week of the horrific 7 October massacre,…
Albo’s out of control spending
Almost fifty years ago, in his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan said, ‘We don’t have inflation because the…
Revealed: Jonathan Powell’s wife has defended Hamas
Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, took flak last week after appearing to support Palestine…
Chris Bryant throws a work-shy strop over NEETs question
Cabinet minister Chris Bryant threw a petulant strop on the airwaves this morning after the BBC dared to ask him…
The utter absurdity of the Sally Rooney affair
Last week I got an email from a colleague I respect on another magazine, prefaced with the assertion that it…
Barbarism cannot triumph in France
On Bastille Day, 1883, the people of Limoges inaugurated a beautiful new town hall, paid for from the legacy of…
Why Britain can’t get anything done
Last week, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, gave his two cents on the state of…
AI is blowing apart the case for net zero
Remember how ‘green jobs’ were going to transform the UK economy, creating new opportunities for well-paid careers which would sweep…
Are Andy Burnham’s loose lips becoming a problem?
Andy Burnham was already notorious before he became Prime Minister for flip-flopping, but what was less obvious until recently was…
Sunday shows round-up: Polanski defends Zionism motion
Zack Polanski: ‘Zionism is racism in the practical application of it’ Earlier this month, Green party members at the party’s…
The truth about the anarchy in France
France has had its share of riots in recent years but the scenes of urban warfare that erupted on Saturday…
France is paying for its indulgence of the young
France is ablaze (again). Limoges’s nineteenth-century town hall was set on fire and declared largely lost. The prefect’s residence in…
What has the National Trust done to Ironbridge Gorge?
As the National Trust takes over Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, I have a vague feeling of dread. Like many people,…
Shame on me for being fooled by Donald Trump
We former fans of Donald J. Trump can all remember where we were when we finally admitted that the POTUS…
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…
Why are people surprised when animals defend themselves?
Conflicting colours and tones of tragedy
Any fan of Gerald Murnane would love to see him win the Nobel Prize for Literature. And if it’s never…
That sinister sense of comic patter
Harold Pinter is one of the great dramatists of the last hundred years, perhaps the only one who can hold…
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…
Priceless
The Bee Gees were a popular trio of singers in the 1960s and 1970s, so named because their lives were…
Homage to the two drama kings who ruled British television for decades
If I were to say to you that one of these books contains an entire chapter on how to get…
A matter of life and death: Afternoon Hours of a Hermit, by Patrick Cottrell, reviewed
Patrick Cottrell’s first novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (2017), had a Korean/American returning to her Milwaukee adoptive parents’ home…
Where have all the children gone? A demographic winter sweeps the world
A gorgeous blonde crosses the threshold of a softly furnished Parisian hotel room, hand in hand with a man. It…
The dark finale of the second world war
When presented with yet another second world war doorstopper by Max Hastings, a reader should be forgiven for wondering what…
Rifts and reconciliations: Adam and Eve, by Jeffrey Archer, reviewed
The old master of the airport bookstall novel has published for the last time. His fans will be delighted with…
An examination of current trade policies leaves us a bit short-changed
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes described the age of economic progress which ended abruptly in…
Must Charles Spencer keep harking back to his address at Diana’s funeral?
Bedroom size matters to the Spencers. Among the countless festering resentments aired by Charles Spencer in his blame-throwing book supposedly…