Hunt: Budget will be ‘responsible’
Jeremy Hunt: Budget will be ‘prudent and responsible’ Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gave an interview on Sunday…
The Iranian people have had enough
The record low turnout for parliamentary elections in Iran, which took place on Friday, is another blow to the regime’s…
Russian dissidents in Serbia are struggling
It must be strange to be Russian and living in Serbia these days. On the one hand, Serbs are very…
AI has always been racist
Silicon Valley is having a meltdown over Google’s Gemini AI image generator after it flooded social media with a fake…
Show-off vicars are ruining the Church of England
It’s generally my morning habit to leap out of bed at 5am singing the Queen song ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’,…
Why an Indian Ocean island has become a battleground in French politics
A tiny island in the Indian Ocean is the latest battleground in France’s immigration debate. High immigration into Mayotte, a…
The scourge of problem gambling
I know that Aussies love to have a punt on the ponies but it’s becoming a massive community problem. For…
John Bercow banished from The Traitors
Poor John Bercow just can’t seem to catch a break. In his never-ending quest to find some relevance post-parliament, the…
Pakistan has jailed one of its last independent journalists
In a cosy Persian restaurant in an Islamabad strip mall, a young man approached Asad Ali Toor for a selfie.…
Can the Tories avoid oblivion?
Another day, another terrible poll for the Tories – the latest YouGov survey records support for the parties at Labour…
It’s time to eliminate the concept of ‘mental health’
The concept of mental health is a hypochondriac’s, narcissist’s, shirker’s and social security fraud’s charter: for who can prove that…
Football obviously has a doping problem
For an astonishing length of time the attitude of football authorities to the prospect of widespread doping at the sport’s…
Mandatory vindication
They were the three words of the week, if not of the year: ‘vaccine’, ‘mandates’ and ‘unlawful’. That was the…
Brown study
Guess what! The Liberal party in Victoria and its leader John Pesutto have actually shown some backbone, principle and commitment…
Faculty, gaggle or murder
What’s the best collective noun for academics?
New Zealand’s imperial judiciary
Who gave them the power? They did
Land of the Unfree
US elites are at war with their citizens
‘Pretty close to evil’
Tony Abbott slams conservative fascination with Putin
Time for Marles to steer HMAS Defence
The minister is all at sea
A Covid ‘apollygy’?
Don’t hold your breath
Will no one rid us of the meddlesome mandarins?
Australian public servants are out of control
Tay-tay & the theory of relativity
Let’s do the Turnbull-Morrison time warp
Power beyond eloquence
It was fascinating to catch up with the Grammys the other night. There was the cheering sight of Miley Cyrus…
Aussie life
In a provincial Victorian city a vast brooding monolith has recently obtruded itself into the ‘built environment’, usurping the church…
Language
As if the sheer horrors of the Hamas attacks on Israel weren’t bad enough, now someone has coined the expression…
