How a KGB man became the fascist’s friend
Since ‘fake-news’ is all the rage these days it seems only appropriate that there’s a strange law on the books…
The Marine le Pen dilemma
French Presidential candidate Marine le Pen represents the counter force to the liberal republican tradition that has solidified in France…
Our friends the dictators
Dictators in the modern age have become very adept at buying friends and reliable apologists. They are praised for their…
Language, law and liberty
Law and language share a critical relationship in preserving freedom of expression. One of the peculiarities of totalitarian societies is…
How Asia thrives without open borders
The European Union, the United States and Australia have since the late eighties shared in the belief that the key…
Youngstown: Springsteen’s or Trump’s?
Bruce Springsteen offered a sombre and evocative description of the toll taken on the typical rustbelt community by decades of…
Privatise the ABC
The Middle-Class Rip Off is an episode of the great British satire Yes Minister, where Humphrey Appleby excoriates his minister Jim Hacker, for suggesting that…
Stealing beauty (and everything else)
A new front in the war against racism has opened up and the fight is being taken to a new…
Stealing beauty (and everything else)
A new front in the war against racism has opened up and the fight is being taken to a new…
Trump and Russia: too much too soon
Donald Trump wants closer and friendly ties with Russia and has long declared he will push for a realignment towards…
Soft power, hard outcomes
Wednesday’s edition of 7:30 included a fascinating piece on the campaign of the Chinese government to make China the world…
Far-right, or do you just disagree with them?
The return of One Nation at the 2016 federal election and the emergence of a series of small right-wing parties…
Duterte Harry
At a government press conference, a grandstanding British journalist admonished Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, stating to the President of the…
Want to be leader? Who cares?
On a fantastic episode of South Park Eric Cartman was kidnapped by a deranged serial killer, tied to a chair…
Le poison Pen
The surge of the far-right Front National (FN) since Marine Le Pen took over the leadership of the party from…
Kevin Andrews and the challenges for Australian conservatism after Hanson
Constructing a viable conservative governing coalition with a coherent plan of action for the problems of today is fundamentally complicated…
Trump’s core insight
Donald Trump’s absurd candidacy for the presidency has obscured the broad-based resentment at continuing levels of immigration and the problems…
What is behind the left’s sympathy for Islamist right?
In 2015 Nick Cohen announced his ‘resignation‘ from the left in protest at its open support for the Islamist extreme-right.…
Labor’s love-hate relationship
Despite the media’s classification of 2016 as a close run contest modern Labor is performing at an historically low level…
Greedy Greens
Being wrongly labelled is one of the dangers of political life and a threat to future political success, but we…
