Macron’s snap election is his biggest gamble yet
Emmanuel Macron tonight dissolved France’s National Assembly and announced there will be new parliamentary elections with the first round of…
Watch: Green leader’s nuclear disaster
There are some decent arguments in favour of unilateral disarmament. So it’s a pity then that Carla Denyer did not…
Watch: Tory aide stops Holden grilling
Which Tory minister is having the worst week in politics? It’s a title that Rishi Sunak seemed to have sewn…
Beyond Mad Max with dystopian AI
The dystopian future predicted in the Mad Max movie franchise may be closer than ever and it won’t take world…
WA needs public safety, not paperwork
One of the bravest people in Western Australia is Ariel Bombara, the daughter of the Floreat murderer. With deep insight…
Julian Assange: when two contradictory things are both true
This is my contribution to Alexandra Marshall’s challenge on Julian Assange… In the last year or so I’ve had a…
The uranium paradox
Australia’s uranium reserves are nothing short of colossal
Sunday shows round-up: Farage doubles down on D-Day attack on PM
Rishi Sunak has been accused of making a massive error of judgment after he exited the D-Day commemorations early on…
Minister: ‘No question’ of replacing Sunak
It’s three days since Rishi Sunak’s Normandy gaffe but there’s no sign of the row going away anytime soon. The…
Why I’ll be voting Reform (reluctantly)
I’ve always loved voting. No matter how many times I’ve been disappointed, I’ll be out there next time round getting…
How Putin plans to fund a forever war in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s costly war in Ukraine has transformed Russia as the president has forced the country to pivot onto a…
The hardest part of climbing Mount Everest isn’t what you think
Everest is, we’re told, ‘the highest garbage dump in the world’. It’s a place, if you believe the reports from…
Does the fate of Foot’s Labour show what could happen to the Tories?
The party is floundering. Its leaders are at odds with their activists about what are their core beliefs. It is…
Agatha Christie and the truth about detective fiction’s Golden Age
A hundred years ago, the Golden Age of detective fiction was taking off. In the years that followed, Agatha Christie,…
Will my generation still remember D-Day?
In the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, just inland of Utah Beach on the coast of Normandy, a crowd had gathered before…
Why Biden’s Gaza ceasefire proposal failed
Ceasefire deals to end the war in Gaza have come and gone. President Biden’s unexpected announcement of the latest formula…
North Korea trash politics sky-high while our pollies are distracted
From Baengnyeongdo, South Korea: Here at what the Americans call PY-Do in the Yellow Sea, we are closer to North…
French healthcare shows there’s another way for the NHS
Nigel Farage says the NHS ‘isn’t working’ and has suggested the UK adopt a French-style heathcare system. He’s evidently been…
Democracy, sovereignty, and the common interest
The 19th Century Dutch Prime Minister and theologian, Abraham Kuyper, developed the theory known as the ‘sovereignty of the spheres’.…
Nigel Farage’s Tory manifesto
I’d say that Nigel Farage gave the best performance in last night’s debate. You might expect that: he’s a full-time…
Australia’s ‘triple-demic’ of Covid, flu, and RSV – experts baffled
The Covid policy wizards are baffled again. In Australia, some 98 per cent of the population have had at least…
The big renewable energy lie
The biggest deliberate transfer of wealth ever seen?
Why doesn’t the law protect more women from violence?
It might have to do with semiotics
Why was George Orwell a socialist?
When George Orwell’s publisher, Fredric Warburg, read the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four in December 1948 he wrote a rapturous report to his…
The troubling truth about the Greens
Wind farms. Heat pumps. Hamas apologism. It’s a curious combination, but one that an alarmingly high number of Green party…
