Keep on tweeting, Mr President
Mention One Nation voters in elite circles, and they’ll be dismissed as backward, unsophisticated and easily misled. But when asked…
Paradiski lost
Once again, Western civilisation is under mortal threat. This time it comes from a deepening schism between the rank-and-file and…
Anti-Abbott galahs just lying or incompetent?
Tony Abbott has the politicians, the commentariat and other elites very worried, and not just about energy.They know that what…
Judge for yourself
An 82 year old American judge, Justice Anthony Kennedy, announces his retirement and the country is in uproar. It’s a…
CNN sucks, Trump triumphs
‘CNN sucks…CNN sucks,’ the capacity crowd of rank-and-file Americans in Minnesota’s giant Amsoil Arena chanted. This was their down-to-earth message…
Nobel laureates manqués
Calls for a Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump reminded me that if anyone should be a Nobel Laureate, it…
Australia, defenceless
The ability of our armed forces to defend the nation is being crippled, not through any fault of theirs, but…
Decline and fall
It’s official. Our decline into Third World status is accelerating. Our students languish behind those of Kazakhstan and Bulgaria in…
Tony’s trifecta
Surely it was obvious that, on any reasonable examination, Donald Trump was by far the better candidate in the 2016…
Warrior prince weds a Hollywood princess
The happy marriage between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will have formidable and long-lasting consequences. Australians took the occasion to…
Budget conjuring trick
The Federal Budget process is no more than a conjuring trick to ensure the next election results in a high-taxing,…
Aux bien pensants
Beria born again in the usa You could have thought the central feature of French President Macron‘s visit to Australia…
Save Liddell or let Abbott do it
Responsible for Australia having the world’s most expensive electricity and gas, the least thing the Turnbull government could do is…
Menzies, the banks and Liddell
The appalling behaviour of the banks and insurance companies, exposed in testimony to the banking Royal Commission, is nothing new.…
Harlotry in the collective of collectives
Who controls the mainstream media? Baldwin famously declared that moguls like Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook did, exercising power without…
More Marxist gibberish
Paul Keating‘s obsession with turning us into some politicians’ republic is not about improving the governance of Australia, surely the…
It’s (party) time
Was there anyone who was not moved when they saw former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith’s public act of contrition…
Aux bien pensants
Mug the frugal, turnbull teaches shorten The standing of politicians has never been lower. They’re widely regarded as self-interested, incompetent,…
Lesson One: don’t get caught
The dismissal of the FBI’s second-in-charge, Andrew McCabe, was not by President Trump, as several Australian outlets who bothered to…
Washington diary
Washington is now the capital of a resurgent nation, rejecting the untenable proposition that she is in terminal decline, a…
Abbott’s winning agenda
‘The government which stopped the boats can’t slow the planes’, concluded Michael McLaren, the Macquarie Media Network’s rising young star.…
Aux bien pensants
Proscribe parallelism not promiscuity By proscribing sexual relations with ministerial staff and through his public moral condemnation of Nationals leader…
Autocues for the clueless
Was anyone really surprised when the factional warlords and powerbrokers in the key NSW division of the Liberal party so…
Mr President, look beyond the swamp
Not since Ronald Reagan has the reaction to a State of the Union address been so optimistic, anticipating the return…
Foundations laid in 1788
Amanda Vanstone recently chose to reveal that neither she, nor indeed, anyone she knew, would be celebrating the arrival of…
