Political trends firming against Labor
The end is nigh
Communists are marching on Paris. Weekend after weekend. Traipsing the wreckage of civilisation with them. Smashing. Stealing. Revelling in the…
Lord of the sock puppets
Anthony Albanese has joined the Unplug24 campaign, announcing on X: The movement is in honour of Mac Holdsworth who, to…
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…
Point of Law a modern-day Phar Lap for Albo’s Great Depression
Today’s Melbourne Cup had me in tears. It’s been a long day. I drive the truck tonight so I woke…
Why would the Palestinian Authority change?
Anyone wondering why Australia is confronting an antisemitism crisis should pay close attention to a revealing exchange between Senator James…
Australia has spent billions teaching kids to hate democracy
The McKinnon Index was released November 3, 2026. If you still had any faith left in the people running Australia’s…
Great Australian success stories
We are not a ‘precious stone set in the silver sea … this blessed plot, this Earth, this realm…’ We…
Student protesters resent getting what they demanded
Mass student and Gen Z-led protests over school conditions, housing costs, education funding, and the cost of living have swept…
The Chalmers Curve
Economics has the Phillips Curve, the Laffer Curve, and Okun’s Law. All three of which are currently relevant to our…
Who left whom?
In May 2025, the Liberal Party won 43 per cent of the primary vote in Farrer, the New South Wales…
Too many microphones, not enough minds
Australians of my generation were politically spoiled, though it didn’t feel like it at the time. We grew up with…
Feminism and the disastrous decade of dating
Young women have never had more freedom, more education or more money. So why are so many of them so…
The winged figure of Cyrus the Great at Sydney Olympic Park
Today, I would like to write about the winged figure at Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, which is associated with Cyrus…
You were only supposed to blow the doors off!
Every good heist film needs a villain who is not the crew. In Bank Job, published this week to coincide…
Australia’s shameful era of progressive antisemitism
Hallelujah! I opened my newspaper on Friday to read, in black and white, the two words I never thought I…
Anthropic’s laundry list of risks
Halloween has come early on Wall Street. This week, Anthropic, the company behind Claude, lodged its prospectus to list on…
Minns vs the Barossa
In November 2014, a man who had run the Barossa for 18 years handed over the keys. Nobody stood against…
Dreamers not Dregs
It’s not hard to see how America’s elites and its snide class of wannabe professional politicians threw away their hegemony…
Chris Bowen’s long, slow climate controversy
For years I have clung to the academic excuse that climate change is ‘not my field’. But politics is my…
OH NO, NOT BLUEY! – Labor has started a war against speech and satire | S3 Ep 26
In this episode: Is BLUEY ground zero for the war against satire? Victoria – the reddest state – is about…
TURN THE POLITICAL TEMPERATURE DOWN… WHO TURNED IT UP?! – Labor’s outrageous hypocrisy | S3 Ep 25
In this episode: Macron’s ‘soft touch’ on far-left riot agitators. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni vows swift justice against looters. Labor’s inter-generational…
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…
Hot air con
It would appear that the federal Labor government has been taking lessons from its favourite bureaucrats and serving up questionable…
Jimbo is toast
Jimbo is toast: it’s the scientific consensus. His term as Treasurer of this country must end as soon as possible.…
What went on tour should have been sorted on tour
You know something has gone awry when Labor’s Captain Sensible, former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon, calls for an intervention against…
The housing crisis is a hoax
Australia’s Housing Accord is a five-year plan, and it is performing exactly as five-year plans do. It promised 1.2 million…
WA under Labor is rotten to the core
A small town in the north of Western Australia by the name of South Hedland has been the focus of…
France’s riots are a gift to Le Pen
Few in the mainstream media spotted the irony of the BBC’s Paris correspondent describing the recent anarchy across France as…
Australian notes
That the Bureau of Meteorology could fake and corrupt weather temperature data, as so egregiously revealed recently in a forensic…
Potholes, political mates and Toto
Somewhere in regional Australia, a council worker is staring into a pothole large enough to qualify for its own post…
The sewage hits the fan
A whiff of wastewater that wafted over the Cooks River has finally enveloped the Prime Minister. For weeks, Albanese insisted…
Political trends firming against Labor
There are two leading trends in Australian politics which are firming against Labor , and which, I suspect, will hold…
Left-wing violence
In a recent speech, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned about the deadly danger of left-wing activism, claiming that…
The left’s fraudulent language
Many years ago, I was on an appointments committee to select between two candidates for a lecturing position in the…
The French economy is in a terrible state
Some readers may not be familiar with French tycoon Patrick Drahi, save when a few years ago he briefly took…
Will we miss Trump when he’s gone?
Whatever happens in the American mid-terms today, there are only two-and a-bit years remaining of Donald Trump as a politician.…
Labour have devalued the meaning of citizenship
A year after Shabana Mahmood first announced her proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), nine months after a…
Labour’s immigration betrayal
The announcement that Shabana Mahmood is U-turning on the Boriswave reforms confirms that this Labour government has no intention, if…
In defence of ‘career politicians’
No belief binds the nation’s pub bores together more strongly than the idea that we need to do away with…
The war on cyclists is costing lives
A motorist who was found guilty of murdering a cyclist in Greater Manchester was jailed for life this week. Simon…
Shabana Mahmood wasn’t tough enough
A treat for fans of funeral pyres in the Commons today as Shabana Mahmood gave her much anticipated statement on…
Britons barely got a say in ILR shake-up
Only 18 per cent of respondents to the Home Office’s migration consultation were British citizens, new transparency documents reveal. Among…
Mahmood waters down her migration reforms
The Home Secretary has this afternoon confirmed what Westminster already knew: her much-vaunted migration reforms have been sacrificed on the…
Why is the BBC so intent on sneering at America?
I’ve been geekishly obsessed with US politics since my early twenties, when I stumbled upon a speech by the then…
It’s time to stop demonising cyclists
There’s been plenty of outrage against cyclists recently. Last week, after Oxford Street in London was pedestrianised, a small number…
Is Poundland booming or dying?
Is Poundland a declining business, racking up losses and teetering on the brink of insolvency as higher wage costs and…
New Zealand election musings
By the time you read this, the New Zealand election will be about a week away. Now I’d like to…
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…
Revolting France: The riots are driving the country’s politics to its extremes
An urge to take over the play
It’s astonishing what awaits the culture vulture. A lot of people know the riches on offer when they see the…
The beauty of the ruthless truth
There are times when the screen, big or small, looks like a gift of the gods. In the last week…
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…
In praise of Piedmontese wines
Authors hate it when reviewers refer to their book as a ‘weighty tome’ as it implies that the contents are…
One for the Prefab Sprout diehards
‘One for the heads’ is the phrase that traditionally covers the more outré elements of a band’s career: the outtakes,…
Singsong vapidity: The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse, by Heather Morris, reviewed
The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse is from Heather Morris, whose 2012 novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz began the vogue for…
How can we fool ourselves that chatbots feel anything for us?
Imagine that a good friend of yours has fallen for a psychopath, a man or woman who seems superficially charming…
Why a frothy Jane Austen adaptation is always imminent
There has never been a good screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel. There have been plenty of films with…
The felled tree that devastated Britain
It was just a tree, a beautiful tree, in a strikingly beautiful place. Yet when the two friends Daniel Graham…
Return of the war-weary: Gjak, by Dimosthenis Papamarkos, reviewed
The Second Greco-Turkish War (1919-22) ended catastrophically for Greece and led to a massive population exchange: аt least 1.2 million…
‘An inspiration to all under his command’: the cheerful courage of Brian Franks
They say there are old soldiers and bold soldiers but very few old, bold soldiers. Well, Tim Spicer is pretty…