David Flint

Meet Paris in a canter

5 January 2019 9:00 am

The choice for Australia at the general election is between a slow or an accelerated decline. Managed decline is à…

Turnbullian nightmare

15 December 2018 9:00 am

Don’t go into the Christmas holidays and 2019 thinking the nightmare is over. True, Malcolm Turnbull is no more, at…

Show me the man…

8 December 2018 9:00 am

‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,’ secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria assured the equally loathsome mass-murderer…

Quit Paris, halve migration

1 December 2018 9:00 am

The Victorian election demonstrates a desperate need for powerful leadership based on principle, something last seen in the 2013 Abbott…

Aux bien pensants

24 November 2018 9:00 am

Next year in Jerusalem Scott Morrison has no alternative now but to move the Australian Embassy from Tel Aviv to…

Prince Harry, G-G?

10 November 2018 9:00 am

Leadership beyond politics, a quality well demonstrated by Prince Harry, is one of the greatest virtues of our constitutional system.…

Winning huge with The Donald

7 November 2018 4:00 am

It is likely President Trump will record an unprecedented success in the midterm elections. Mid-term elections invariably go against the…

Gender workers of the world, unite!

3 November 2018 9:00 am

‘Surely you mean sex,’ I told the Vice-Chancellor and the other Deans. It was 30 years ago and I had…

Pandering to the Wentworthies

27 October 2018 9:00 am

Contrary to reports, Wentworth has not been a blue ribbon Liberal  seat since the 1980s. And the seat is so…

Boot Brisbane, kick Canberra

20 October 2018 9:00 am

‘I am delighted to be speaking in Cairns, capital of the new State of North Queensland,’ I told the new…

Sharma shafts Shorten

13 October 2018 9:00 am

Australia will soon face what is arguably one of the most important elections in its history, with Wentworth a crucial…

Castration of the male?

6 October 2018 9:00 am

Expect the US Supreme Court, still captured by political activists, to downgrade men’s rights within the decade, with honorary ‘feminist’…

For real Scomentum, drain the billabong

26 September 2018 2:28 pm

Our political class are being seen more and more as arrogant and as out of touch as the French aristocracy…

Aux bien pensants

22 September 2018 9:00 am

You can’t walk on both sides of the street, PM If the Coalition were to go to the general election…

Sovereignty is sacred

15 September 2018 9:00 am

Increasingly, many if not most Australian, British, American and other Western politicians have been imposing policies the people would never…

King should succeed the republican in Wentworth

11 September 2018 7:32 am

Are the powerbrokers and lobbyists who run the NSW Liberal Party like the Bourbons? Have they learned nothing, and forgotten…

Reincarnation of the elites

8 September 2018 9:00 am

Compliant always with John O’Sullivan’s First Law that all organisations not actively leaning right will, over time, become left-wing, The…

Turnbull’s litany of failures

25 August 2018 9:00 am

Turnbull must go. With Abbott, and only Abbott, the Coalition will win in a landslide and save the nation from…

To the Prime Minister, Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott, the Attorney and Governor-General…

23 August 2018 8:49 am

The key people in the current crisis urgently need independent and urgent advice, the sort of advice they may not…

In the name of God, go!

21 August 2018 11:17 am

The message from the Liberal Party to Malcolm Turnbull should be the same as Leo Amery’s message to Neville Chamberlain…

National roll of dishonour

18 August 2018 9:00 am

In times of crisis, Australians demand leadership, leadership of the quality which that great Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, or that…

Leadership drought

11 August 2018 9:00 am

Water is the very essence of life. As Benjamin Franklin said, its only when the well’s dry that we know…

Last chance for the Liberals

4 August 2018 9:00 am

If the Liberals go to the next election with Turnbull as leader, they’ll be handing over the government to a…

Turnbull’s time is up

29 July 2018 1:06 pm

The appalling Liberal Party performance in the five Super Saturday by-elections confirms what has long been obvious. This is that…

Keep on tweeting, Mr President

28 July 2018 9:00 am

Mention One Nation voters in elite circles, and they’ll be dismissed as backward, unsophisticated and easily misled. But when asked…