Anjem Choudary’s attention-seeking became his downfall
Anjem Choudary thrived on the oxygen of publicity and in the end could not stand being starved of it. He could…
Livin’ on a prayer, Victoria!
The 10,912 Victorians who signed a petition to retain the recital of the Lord’s Prayer in our state Parliament each…
Much ado about nothing: UK Labour’s policy wasteland
Most astute commentators on the ‘zeitgeist’ of the times; in the realms of geopolitics, economics, resource scarcity etc – whether…
The Last Reshuffle
A common element in democratic government cabinet reshuffles is the idea that the dead wood is chopped out allowing new…
Falling birth rates and stagnant productivity
We are going backwards
Nefarious activities
Nothing new about the CFMEU
In defence of ‘legacy media’
Only established media can tackle the really tough jobs
Trump’s appeal
Conservative Never-Trumpers are wrong
Hungary exits in pursuit of a bear
On the Olympics, the West and Victor Orbán
The road to Kamalot
Who’s the real threat to democracy?
Time to believe in miracles
Can we stem the totalitarian tides?
Lower, Weaker, Grubbier
Time to abolish the Olympics?
Utopia? Or ‘their’-topia?
New indigenous rights are shrouded in secrecy
Deranged and fantastic horrors
For a century King Lear has been thought of as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies and the title role as…
Aussie life
Imagine if, instead of returning to the USA to become its third president, Thomas Jefferson had died in France on…
Language
A fellow Speccie writer asked me about what he called the ‘absurd equivalence’ being drawn between ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘Islamophobia’. He…
Scandal, waste and incompetence
Labor is downgrading Australia to Third World status
Beware the bat police
My friend Andrew is angry. He has just had the bat people round to look at his building project in…
Jack White’s new album will be of close interest to Led Zeppelin’s legal team
The ploy of releasing an album without any advance warning comes into play when an artist feels they are being…
Will the real Kamala Harris please stand up?
About five minutes ago, the one Democrat more certain to lose to Donald Trump than Joe Biden was his widely…
The summer of Brat
The singer Charli XCX (or ‘Ninety Ten’ as my husband insists on pronouncing it) has endorsed Kamala Harris, in a…
Save our grey belt!
While working as a callow speechwriter for the Labour party in the mid-1980s, I suggested to a member of the…
Let prisoners phone home
‘A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners,’ Winston Churchill said. Last year, in England and Wales, every…
Who’ll be blamed for Rachel Reeves’s tax hikes?
Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt entered Downing Street with one mission: to clean up the public finances after Liz Truss’s…
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