Busywork? UN Secretary-General António ‘global boiling’ Guterres appoints Julie Bishop as special envoy to Myanmar
Australia’s political elite seem to have a knack for clawing their way into prestigious international bureaucracies. This time, it’s former…
How likely is Putin to target the Paris Olympics?
One thing the French seem to be learning (or, given their history, re-learning) is that the Russians are always up…
How Syria collapsed
In April 2018 I was taken on a coach through miles of war-wasted urban landscape in the Syrian cities of…
Who’s to blame for Scotland’s ferry fiasco?
You wait eight-and-a-half years for someone to lose their job over the SNP’s ferries fiasco, then two sackings come at…
Euthanasia is too cruel to doctors
It seems like every day there is a new push to legalise euthanasia in the UK. This week, Prue Leith…
No, prison sentences aren’t going soft
In 1894 Maria Hermann, an Austrian-born prostitute stood trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of a client. The…
The Tories are resigned to an almighty defeat
The herd of Conservative MPs is on the move again, this time obediently setting off towards the abattoir in which…
The curiously quiet reaction to Oppenheimer in Japan
Finally, eight months after its US premiere and a month after it triumphed at the Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has…
Musk vs Australia’s ‘you can’t say that’ surveillance state
Australia’s Labor/Green ‘you can’t say that’ surveillance state is being challenged by Elon Musk in a lawsuit over bureaucratic bullying.…
Concern over activism in public schools
It’s increasingly the case that public schools are among the most dangerous places to send your children. It shouldn’t be…
Another day, another women problem for the Libs
Albanese handing the Governor-General’s gig to tame activist Sam Mostyn gave the Liberals a perfect opportunity to call out Labor’s…
Out of touch
In exciting news this week, the Prime Minister announced that a retired coal miner from Cessnock who now runs a…
Brown Study
I have been much taken by recent opinion pieces in the media that people are drifting away from the established…
40,000 lives lost for what?
Australia is lurching towards full-blown socialism
Elites’ war on Hiluxland
Our Liberals need to grasp the truth
Pluck of the Irish
Another woke referendum bites the dust
Business/Robbery, etc
The Federal Court’s gift to eco-saboteurs
Would you buy an EV from this man?
B1 is a man on emission
To hold the pen
On Charlie Hebdo, Voltaire & Douglas Murray
Iran is the heart of terror
How the West’s useful idiots have embraced Islam’s ancient hatreds
More people does not mean more wealth
Be very sceptical about government spending on immigration
A lithe brilliance
It figures that Australians should write great plays about sport because we are exceptionally – some people would say excessively…
The media will eventually reveal the truth
Everything the Albanese government does now is affected by one consideration: the election must be held before they are exposed…
Is New Zealand past the point of no return?
Given that New Zealand has now entered into a recession, in spite of record migration levels and population growth, many…
Language
Raymond from Nedlands, WA, asks for the meaning of ‘identity politics’. Searching through various sources, I can provide a one-word…
