Trump’s madness will strengthen Nato

12 February 2024 11:53 pm

‘Appalling and unhinged’ was Joe Biden’s (or at least the White House’s) verdict on Donald Trump’s remarks that he might…

Greta Thunberg

The sinister transformation of Greta Thunberg

12 February 2024 10:16 pm

Greta Thunberg spent her weekend in France supporting two environmental campaigns. On Sunday she appeared at a rally in Bordeaux…

The problem with Kneecap – and the arts blob

12 February 2024 6:57 pm

When I was about 14 or 15, someone sent me a birthday card with the words: ‘Teenagers – tired of…

Why the Tory party is breaking apart

12 February 2024 5:51 pm

I don’t, I freely admit, remember all that much about my chemistry lessons at school. Covalent bonding delighted me not,…

The battle for Rafah could turn into a bloodbath

12 February 2024 5:23 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views the conflict in Gaza as a zero-sum game – with Israel either destroying Hamas or…

Invasion Day

12 February 2024 3:20 am

Captain Cook’s only sin was to discover Australia

Woke ideology and totalitarianism

12 February 2024 3:00 am

We all know by now that society’s Adventures in Wokeland are never-ending. Thankfully, these sagas have become so annoying that…

Australia is a house divided

12 February 2024 2:40 am

Home ownership is more than a financial investment; it’s a cornerstone of the Australian identity

Conservatives have no solutions, or so the story goes

12 February 2024 2:00 am

...and socialists have solutions that are abhorrent

The stalemate on illegal immigration

12 February 2024 1:15 am

Few moments are less promising to reach a bipartisan deal than the months before a presidential election. And few issues…

Alexandra Marshall Live S2E2: Leilani Dowding & Ben Beattie

12 February 2024 12:45 am

UK commentator and Mark Steyn ‘Angel’ Leilani Dowding reveals the horrifying depravity of modern scientific testing which tortures tens of…

The renewables bubble has burst

11 February 2024 7:19 pm

It wasn’t so long ago that Orsted was being held up as an example of how oil and gas companies…

Why is President Biden scared of Iran?

11 February 2024 5:30 pm

The Biden administration often appears more afraid of Iran than Iran is of the Biden administration. That is a very…

Is diversity actually good for business?

11 February 2024 5:30 pm

It is a sacred mantra of the business circuit that diverse boards improve company performance. It has apparently been proven…

Russia’s ‘Red Ripper’ Andrei Chikatilo was a uniquely Soviet serial killer

11 February 2024 5:00 pm

In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as atrocities like the killings at Bucha and Irpin came…

The Greens are committed to giving 16-year-olds the vote

11 February 2024 3:25 am

Take power back and unf#*k our future, say the Greens

Jacinta Allan’s hypocrisy over Kanye West

11 February 2024 2:10 am

There are plenty of antisemites in the streets of Melbourne

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

11 February 2024 12:04 am

People are happier in the presence of beautiful buildings

‘Mm, uh huh, yeah’: Tucker Carlson and journalism’s therapeutic turn

10 February 2024 8:00 pm

Could the subject of the Sudetenland have been resolved more satisfactorily if Adolf Hitler had been given a more open…

How the Chinese markets lost faith in the CCP

10 February 2024 6:30 pm

Ahead of the Chinese new year holiday, Beijing has been intervening to prop up the country’s stock markets. Regulators have…

The left can’t stand France’s new culture minister

10 February 2024 6:19 pm

France’s new minister of culture has promised to put an end to the creeping cancel culture that is threatening the…

Rishi Sunak’s week of howlers has exposed his big weakness

10 February 2024 6:00 pm

It is quite some achievement to launch an attack on Keir Starmer’s contortions over trans rights versus women’s rights and…

Germany’s rustbelt is reviving – but voters are still flocking to the AfD

10 February 2024 5:00 pm

West Germany’s first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, hated eastern Germany and said – possibly apocryphally – that Asia begins at the…

The latest grenade for the Trump-hating media

10 February 2024 3:52 pm

Analysts in a new study say they can conclude that 28.2 per cent of respondents who voted by mail in…

Slash the acronyms

10 February 2024 9:00 am

What to make of the Coalition’s response to the trashing of the Stage 3 tax cuts? As Judith Sloan points…