Scandal, waste and incompetence
After 30 days of Labour, I want the Conservatives back
One month in, and our new Labour government has already made a complete hash of it. The UK has descended…
Illawarra stands up to offshore wind
On Sunday, July 28, I was asked to speak at the ‘Rally to Oppose the Illawarra Offshore Wind Proposal’ in…
Why was the crowd booing?
The Police and Citizens Youth Club in Woolloomooloo opened in 1937 and was the original club in the network of…
Acts of aggression
Almost exactly three years ago today, I wrote about Laurel Hubbard competing in the female category of weightlifting. When the…
Bleeding Australia dry
Nations achieve high standards of living by having a productive workforce and high levels of investment. Either they produce the…
Why Putin supports Maduro in Venezuela
On August 28, presidential elections were held in Venezuela to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on January 10,…
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…
False narratives still drive anti-Semitism
Like many in the West, I was horrified on October 7 when reports came in that Hamas terrorists had invaded…
Contempt for Christians on the rise in Scotland?
Contempt for those with Christian convictions appears to be on the rise in Scotland. A survey conducted by new think…
Welcome the warmth
At dawn today (July 30) mid-winter in sunny Queensland, it was zero degrees on the lawn outside our kitchen and…
Labour have lost control of Britain
Labour has lost control of Britain. They have been in power for just a couple of weeks and Britain is…
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?
Even France is surprised by Britain’s riots
The riots that have erupted across Britain in the last week have been reported extensively in France. The centre-right Le Figaro describes…
Kamala’s ABC connection
Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are at odds over where and when the pair will debate,…
Starmer has to act tough over riots chaos
Hundreds of angry protestors have attacked a hotel in South Yorkshire that has been used to house migrants and asylum…
Starmer blasts ‘far-right thuggery’ in wake of weekend riots
After a weekend of violent disorder breaking out across the UK, the Prime Minister has this evening issued a statement from Downing…
Kiwi life
New Zealand in crisis Given the destruction the previous Labour government inflicted on this country, and the damage caused by…
New Zealand’s carbon sequestration problem
Ongoing concern about climate change has fuelled debate about the part carbon sequestration might play in reducing New Zealand’s net…
Why New Zealand is cracking down on immigration
The government of New Zealand this week tightened the country’s working visa rules in order to stem historically high numbers…
Why is New Zealand’s deputy PM rowing with Chumbawamba?
In their musical heyday, the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba enjoyed a reputation for having an irreverent attitude towards those…
How the myth of Paris liberating itself was born
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…
Rescued from the Comanches
Isn’t it extraordinary how the new-style, super-arty balletic circus has transformed the old child-delighting world of Heffalumps and daring young…
‘Damned spot’ of blood keeps appearing
People have always fiddled with Shakespeare. Nahum Tate did not give King Lear a happy ending because he was a…
A masterful magnificence
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? culminates the great stretch of American drama that runs from Tennessee Williams’ The…
How the myth of Paris liberating itself was born
The liberation of Paris in August 1944, two months after D-Day, was one of the most highly publicised victories of…
Malice and intrigue in the shadow of Tom Tower
‘The House’ in the title of Richard Davenport-Hines’s engaging new book is Christ Church, by any reckoning the grandest of…
Portrait of the artist and mother
On reaching the end of Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation, I felt somewhat overwhelmed. At 272 pages, the book isn’t…
A miracle beckons: Phantom Limb, by Chris Kohler, reviewed
In 2021, a financial newspaper estimated the American televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s wealth to be in the region of $750 million.…
After the Flood: There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak, reviewed
A drop of water falls on the head of Ashur-banal, the erudite but merciless king of Assyria, as he walks…
Love it or loathe it – the umami flavour of anchovy
We are blessed to be living in a golden age of anchovies. They’re everywhere – lacing salads, festooning pizzas, draped…
A haunting theme: The Echoes, by Evie Wyld, reviewed
Evie Wyld’s powerful fourth novel opens from the perspective of Max, a ghost who haunts the south London flat where…
Absinthe and the casual fling: Ex-Wife, by Ursula Parrott, reviewed
‘Ex-wives like us illustrate how this freedom for women turned out to be God’s greatest gift to men,’ quips Patricia,…