Will the Lehrmann verdict end trial by media?
The Bruce Lehrmann-Brittany Higgins saga reached its conclusion this week with Federal Court Justice Michael Lee handing down his judgment…
Watch: David Cameron says Iran has suffered ‘double defeat’
The question of how Israel will respond to Iran’s attack dominated David Cameron’s first broadcast round since he became Foreign…
How will Israel hit back against Iran?
Iran’s attack on Israel signals a new era. For the first time, Iran targeted Israel directly, not only through proxies…
Sunak set for final game of Rwanda ping pong
Parliament’s return from recess this week means the Rwanda Bill is now back in the Commons for the final game…
France and Britain have both shamefully neglected the white working class
Emmanuel Macron told a communist newspaper earlier this year that he didn’t consider Marine le Pen’s National Rally part of…
Long live the litter lout snitches!
Most of us are, I think, temperamentally opposed to the idea of a society in which we are surveilled 24/7.…
Albanese’s Net Zero protectionism
Mr Albanese is announcing a new protectionism with the government driving a ‘new competition’ approach centred on a Net Zero…
Netanyahu’s political survival is his top priority
On Sunday morning, Israelis – those who hadn’t already spent part of the night in bomb shelters or safe rooms,…
Neutrality as a weapon to destroy religious freedom
The recently released report of the Law Reform Commission, entitled Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination…
The Voice zombie lumbers on in South Australia
It just can’t be killed, this Zombie thing called The Voice. In South Australia, despite two in every three citizens…
Netanyahu can’t ignore the scale of Iran’s attack
Today was supposed to be the day we sent our kids back to nursery. For two weeks, my toddler and…
Israel has a chance to de-escalate after Iran’s failed attack
Iran’s strike on Israel yesterday is, simultaneously, a moment for alarm and calm. Alarm because, by unleashing more than 300…
Atkins: British planes operating in region at time of Iran attack
Conflict in the Middle East entered a new dangerous phase on Saturday night, as Iran launched over 300 drones and…
The rusting Philippine ship raising US-China tensions
The rusting and disintegrating hulk of a former Second World War landing ship has become an unlikely but dangerous flashpoint in US-China relations. The…
Despite their failed attack, Iran should not be underestimated
Iran’s overnight mass drone attack on Israel was supposed to be payback for the assassination of Iranian Republican Guard Corps…
Iran says no more attacks, as drone strike fails
Not a single drone or cruise missile sent from Iran made it to Israel last night. The combined air forces…
The sacking of Frank Skinner is a loss to British comedy
The recent news that comedian Frank Skinner had been sacked from his job at Absolute Radio after fifteen years as…
The real reason Ireland is going to recognise Palestine
When the Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin recently stood up and announced to the Dail that Ireland would officially recognise…
The West must stand behind Israel after Iran’s attack
Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel is an escalation from the fiery but ultimately empty rhetoric we are used…
How will Israel respond to Iran’s attack?
Iran’s retaliatory attack, which Israel has been expecting since it killed Iranian commanders in Damascus on 1st April, has started…
Iran has struck back – but is it war?
When Israel assassinated a top commander in Iran’s Quds Force in Damascus a fortnight ago, it knew that Tehran would…
The Camille Paglia cult
There’s a specter floating inside the head of a certain type of young woman. It’s the fast-talking, sex-realist American academic…
Henry Ford and the genius of bitcoin
In 1729, the French philosopher Voltaire wrote: ‘All paper money returns to its intrinsic value: zero.’ Since then, over 500…
Stopping the inflation contagion
CPI took a rapid jump down in March in Europe and now sits at 2.4 per cent, whilst the UK…
Watch: Pro-indy filmmaker’s bizarre currency claim
Another day, another nationalist gaffe. This time it’s pro-indy filmmaker and columnist — for that august journal the National —…