Stephen Fry and the rise of the Pratriarchy
With Labour on course to win the next election, it’s worth asking again: why is it the only major political…
Brexit didn’t ruin Rufus Wainwright’s musical
Blaming Brexit for everything has become a kind of tic among the great and good. Like the buck-passing politicians who…
Rufus Wainwright blames Brexit for his failed musical
These days it seems there’s little you can’t blame on Brexit. From low ratings to school bullying, Britain’s departure from the European Union…
Starmer should think twice before listening to ‘The Muslim Vote’
A grassroots campaign group called ‘The Muslim Vote’ is aiming to capitalise on the success of pro-Gaza candidates at the…
Putin’s next six years in power spell more repression for Russia
Amidst the golden splendour of the Kremlin’s Hall of the Order of St Andrew, Vladimir Putin was once again inaugurated…
The attacks on Britain’s history have backfired
UK university courses on race and colonialism are facing the axe due to cuts. ‘There’s not very much about race…
What Charles Darwin got wrong
Have you noticed that whenever the conversation turns to the subject of Charles Darwin, an extraordinary amount of dogmatism is…
Israel’s Rafah operation is tragically necessary
There is, as Ecclesiastes reminded us, a time for war and a time for peace. In its 76-year history, Israel…
Milei asks: who is Liz Truss?
Since coming to office in December, Javier Milei has won right-wing fans across the world for his bombastic rhetoric and…
Macron is deluded if he thinks he can persuade Xi to change
Try as he might Emmanuel Macron and his party are unable to arrest the popularity of the National Rally. A…
Will John Swinney end the SNP’s war on business?
Accepting the leadership of the SNP on Monday, John Swinney said his political priority as Scotland’s seventh First Minister would…
Greens embroiled in anti-Semitism row
Oh dear. The Green party is in hot water after it emerged that one of its newly-elected councillors labelled a…
What Rishi Sunak can learn from Gordon Brown’s golden mistake
Gordon Brown is a historian by education, so he might just appreciate the fickleness of posterity. Over a decade at…
Can Netanyahu afford to reject Hamas’s ceasefire deal?
A day after it seemed that a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel was all but dead, the terror group…
Why do the Japanese suck at English?
Tokyo, Japan “Shhh! Now on face to respectable great eels life.” How’s that for the first line of an article?…
Australian Utopianism: causes and cures
In his April 2 Press Club Speech, outgoing Net Zero Economy Agency head Greg Combet set out the government’s grand…
It’s the energy, stupid!
It took political columnist (ex ABC & Nine) Chris Uhlmann to sharpen the point that energy in the economy is the equivalent…
Susan Hall’s defeat was avoidable
It didn’t have to end this way. In more than two decades of campaigning I never encountered a politician more…
Labor, how do I loathe thee?
I’m probably not alone in finding it surprising that Federal Labor still had around 30 to 32 per cent primary…
Alexandra Marshall Live S2E11 with Billboard Chris
Won’t someone think of the children? Billboard Chris – the prospective ‘victim’ of the e-Safety Commissioner’s Twitter takedown order, has…
Republicans are embracing the left’s victim culture over antisemitism
For years, Republicans have claimed that theirs is the party of free speech. They have correctly amplified instances of the…
Hamas is playing for time
Israeli, international and Hamas officials are currently awaiting the decision of Yahya Sinwar, the terror group’s military leader on a…
Israel is committed to fighting on in Rafah
As last week drew to a close, it seemed that the intense efforts of Egyptian and American mediators might result…
Draft dodgers are undermining Ukraine’s plea for help
Emmanuel Macron warned recently that Europe is in ‘mortal danger’. The French president said that Russia cannot be allowed to win…
Suella Braverman has made herself look silly
Did Suella Braverman run her latest op-ed by No. 10 for approval? That was the question asked at the end of…
