JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia
The pub test
‘Sadly, you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home,’ said Human Rights Commission President, Gillian Triggs,…
The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge
Who is spearheading the political narrative of Australia? Is it the robust debate between Coalition and Labor – the elected…
Starmer’s artificial intelligence
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer started the week with some hardcore deflection. Despite throwing nasty allegations at Elon Musk, Starmer…
Just Stop Oil desecrated Charles Darwin’s grave
Desecrating the grave of the UK’s most famous scientist might seem like a strange thing to do for members of…
JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia
I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was…
Social justice has a toxic subculture
As the war between Israel and Hamas moves toward a potential ceasefire, one might expect calls for calm and relief…
Australia was not invaded
Was Australia invaded by Britain on January 26, 1788? For a growing number of people, our national holiday, which marks…
Multiculturalism in Australia, RIP?
‘Australia’s culture is multiculturalism.’ This was the answer my high school teacher gave when my class was discussing what Australian…
The Church is not meant to be a Holy hookup app
The Pope’s declaration that he will admit gay men into the priesthood – provided they pinkie swear to remain celibate…
The post-Christian world is not pretty
Historian Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, is the latest high-profile academic to convert to Christianity…
Trump’s threats reawaken Canadian nationalism
Canadians are living through interesting times. There are a few days left before Donald Trump officially returns to the White…
Whatever happened to the Ice Age?
We are in the middle of another (supposedly) ‘unprecedented’ summer, so it is no surprise that sensationalising social media is…
Labor’s $3 billion NBN gamble
Anthony Albanese wants to throw more money into the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) black hole. To me, it smells like…
Farms for food: fossils for fuel
A cover story in The Economist, entitled, The coming food catastrophe, compiled sobering facts regarding worldwide food production and distribution.…
Slash the tax
Australian businesses can rescue our standard of living if the government gets serious about tax reform. Only through productivity growth…
Why it is vital the Victorian Liberals get it right this time
Australians in other states have long taken a quizzical view of Victorian politics. Many are rightfully baffled by the Victorian…
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Rape of the innocents
On 9 January, Labour MPs were three-line whipped into blocking a national inquiry into organised gangs of Pakistani Muslims who…
Where are the righteous of Gaza?
The most distressing aspect of Israel’s prolonged defensive war against the barbaric Hamas terrorists is the plight of the remaining…
Climate cult burns in LA
The religious mindset embraces the belief that there is more to life than the material world of the senses. There…
Can Syria’s Islamists change their spots?
Hope suppresses the reality of the future of Syria. Pundits were wrong about the Arab Spring, projecting perspectives into uprisings…
Oh Canada
I couldn’t figure out what the loud noise was. It was the Speccie crowd celebrating the resignation of woke poster-boy,…
Was MH370 shot down by the CCP?
Did MH370 really fly all the way down to the southern hemisphere, crashing in the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO) west…
Making Keating’s mistake
As the next federal election looms, Labor’s reliance on personal attacks against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is drawing sharp criticism,…
Labor unleashes the Jew-haters
Even before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is a casebook study in everything Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is not. Mr…
Trump is coming for Europe on defence
Hundreds of millions of Americans will have a new president tomorrow. Depending on where you land on America’s increasingly hyper-partisan…
What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?
Five years ago, Reform UK had no presence in Scotland. Its Facebook and Twitter pages emerged during the latter half…
True-blue New Yorkers are bracing themselves for Trump’s return
Fleeing the United States ahead of a ‘fascist takeover’ by Donald Trump on 20 January has been the talk of liberal…
The UK still hasn’t come to terms with the Muslim Brotherhood
Earlier this month, the UAE announced it was sanctioning 11 individuals and eight rather obscure organisations for alleged connections to…
Operation Resolution: cleaning up after HMNZS Manawanui
HMNZS Manawanui, formally a chirpy red and yellow MV Edda Fonn, sank on October 6 much to the shock of…
Why is this New Zealand airport clamping down on hugs?
‘Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world,’ Hugh Grant famously offered in the heartwarming opening scene of Love,…
How New Zealand managed to sink a tenth of its naval fleet
New Zealand just lost one tenth of its naval defence fleet. The HMNZS Manawanui – the jewel in the nation’s small military…
How does New Zealand solve a problem like China?
New Zealand’s most important trading partner is also the nation’s biggest security headache, according to a new risk-assessment report produced…
The folly of Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal
What made David Lynch cool
When one of your favourite filmmakers dies, it is hard not to feel a deeply personal sense of loss; the…
Pacific Paradise Lost
Back in the childhoods of the baby boomers everyone seemed to know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 because there…
The triumph and tragedy of Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery was outrageously funny. And he was funny because he was outrageous. The actor and comedian, who died yesterday…
Thrillers
It’s funny the preconceptions you have about the Christmas/New Year period. I hadn’t anticipated seeing Juror #2 the new Clint…
We are all people of faith, whether we realise it or not
A.J. Ayer and other thinkers linked to the Vienna Circle famously contradicted themselves. A claim such as ‘all truths are…
Red-letter days for Gilbert & George
James Birch is a somewhat mysterious art dealer and curator, whose first great triumph was mounting a Francis Bacon exhibition…
The beauty and tedium of the works of Adalbert Stifter
A commercial publisher bringing out a book of old academic essays on Austrian writers, some completely unknown to English readers,…
The awful calamity of Stalin being a music lover
At around 9 p.m. on 5 March 1953 Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his…
The next best thing to visiting a really clever friend in New York
I was on the phone to a friend recently, who asked me what I was reviewing. ‘It’s a book by…
Time is running out to tackle the dangers posed by AI
Is this what it felt like in the months before August 1914? Or during the years leading up to September…
The golden days of Greenwich Village
This multitudinous chronicle is not the story of the folk music revival. Rather, it’s not only the story of the…
The horror of Hungary in the second world war
I suspect Adam LeBor and his publishers must have struggled to come up with the title The Last Days of…