Generally speaking, if you’re a politician, you shouldn’t start arm-wrestling over campaign donations … unless you’re winning.
‘Donations’ are one of Nigel Farage’s favourite topics. Every week he has a new benchmark for Reform. Another wealthy donor. Some grand funding drive. The man famously de-banked by Coutts has raked in more cash than any other ...
The UFC event today at the White House has been widely dismissed as an absurdity. Inevitably, the administration’s critics have portrayed the event — officially part of America’s 250th celebrations but curiously taking place on Donald Trump’s 80th birthday — as an odious example of Trumpian excess. Supporters, meanwhile, celebrate it as evidence that ...
Opposition leader Angus Taylor is losing one of his most effective shadow ministers, Jonno Duniam, who will quit parliament this year, citing family reasons and “exhaustion”. Duniam, 43, a senator for Tasmania, shadows the demanding portfolio of home affairs, and has been central in the crafting of the opposition’s
In January 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt held a toga-themed birthday party at the White House to mock the accusation that he was an incipient dictator. Donald Trump is doing him one better. The President celebrates his 80th birthday today. As such, his plans for Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts today in an octagon on the South Lawn of the White House ...
As is so often the case following riots, attention on symptoms drowns out discussion about the cause. This pattern has been evident this week, as unrest in Belfast erupted after a man was stabbed. The alleged attacker was arrested and charged but, following the news that he was allegedly an immigrant, mobs roamed Belfast for days, committing horrendous ...
The most consequential allies in the US war on the Iranian Republic (now passing the 100-day mark) are not influential, behemoth nations, but small, agile, rising powers: a glittering city-state of 11 million and the world’s newest nation, one the world is yet to recognise.
The United Arab Emirates and Somaliland (geographically and population-wise ...
Like most political commentators, we have been transfixed by the meteoric rise of One Nation as a credible political force in Australia.
However, in listening to our fellow commentators, one gets the impression that One Nation is perceived merely as a ‘populist’ aberration and, when it matters, the electorate will return to the comfortable bosom of the ...
I’m just going to say it. Not all immigrants are the same. I know that reading that might make you feel uncomfortable, particularly if you’re white and British and therefore more vulnerable to cancel culture and snowflakery. But it’s true. Some immigrants are simply better than others. And by better, I mean that immigrants from certain nations and ...
Australians are known for world-class performances in many fields. Mostly, our achievements are a source of national pride, but one field of achievement causes us only horror and shame. Our serial killers are some of the most prolific and brutal anywhere. And none are more brutal or prolific than the late, unlamented, Ivan Robert Marko Milat.
Milat ...
For months, South African social media has been awash with videos of men marching through the country’s streets carrying sticks, clubs and whips. Some of the clips are theatrical, others are more menacing. Running through them are repeated references to a date: 30 June, the deadline set by anti-immigration groups for illegal migrants from neighbouring ...
In the early 2000s, I photographed Aussie pub rock band Painters and Dockers — not 'in the back of a Divi van'! But looking a tad ominous in Melbourne's old Docklands. read now...
If you live or work in Bristol, it’s impossible to escape the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s shadow – but that won’t stop some people from trying. The heritage site which looks after his early masterpiece, the steamship SS Great Britain, is to change its name from the splendid and (you would have thought) uncontroversial ‘Brunel’s SS ...
Generally speaking, if you’re a politician, you shouldn’t start arm-wrestling over campaign donations … unless you’re winning.
‘Donations’ are one of Nigel Farage’s favourite topics. Every week he has a new benchmark for Reform. Another wealthy donor. Some grand funding drive. The man famously de-banked by Coutts has raked in more cash than any other ...
The UFC event today at the White House has been widely dismissed as an absurdity. Inevitably, the administration’s critics have portrayed the event — officially part of America’s 250th celebrations but curiously taking place on Donald Trump’s 80th birthday — as an odious example of Trumpian excess. Supporters, meanwhile, celebrate it as evidence that ...
Opposition leader Angus Taylor is losing one of his most effective shadow ministers, Jonno Duniam, who will quit parliament this year, citing family reasons and “exhaustion”. Duniam, 43, a senator for Tasmania, shadows the demanding portfolio of home affairs, and has been central in the crafting of the opposition’s
In January 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt held a toga-themed birthday party at the White House to mock the accusation that he was an incipient dictator. Donald Trump is doing him one better. The President celebrates his 80th birthday today. As such, his plans for Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts today in an octagon on the South Lawn of the White House ...
As is so often the case following riots, attention on symptoms drowns out discussion about the cause. This pattern has been evident this week, as unrest in Belfast erupted after a man was stabbed. The alleged attacker was arrested and charged but, following the news that he was allegedly an immigrant, mobs roamed Belfast for days, committing horrendous ...
The most consequential allies in the US war on the Iranian Republic (now passing the 100-day mark) are not influential, behemoth nations, but small, agile, rising powers: a glittering city-state of 11 million and the world’s newest nation, one the world is yet to recognise.
The United Arab Emirates and Somaliland (geographically and population-wise ...
Like most political commentators, we have been transfixed by the meteoric rise of One Nation as a credible political force in Australia.
However, in listening to our fellow commentators, one gets the impression that One Nation is perceived merely as a ‘populist’ aberration and, when it matters, the electorate will return to the comfortable bosom of the ...
I’m just going to say it. Not all immigrants are the same. I know that reading that might make you feel uncomfortable, particularly if you’re white and British and therefore more vulnerable to cancel culture and snowflakery. But it’s true. Some immigrants are simply better than others. And by better, I mean that immigrants from certain nations and ...
Australians are known for world-class performances in many fields. Mostly, our achievements are a source of national pride, but one field of achievement causes us only horror and shame. Our serial killers are some of the most prolific and brutal anywhere. And none are more brutal or prolific than the late, unlamented, Ivan Robert Marko Milat.
Milat ...
For months, South African social media has been awash with videos of men marching through the country’s streets carrying sticks, clubs and whips. Some of the clips are theatrical, others are more menacing. Running through them are repeated references to a date: 30 June, the deadline set by anti-immigration groups for illegal migrants from neighbouring ...
In the early 2000s, I photographed Aussie pub rock band Painters and Dockers — not 'in the back of a Divi van'! But looking a tad ominous in Melbourne's old Docklands. read now...
If you live or work in Bristol, it’s impossible to escape the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s shadow – but that won’t stop some people from trying. The heritage site which looks after his early masterpiece, the steamship SS Great Britain, is to change its name from the splendid and (you would have thought) uncontroversial ‘Brunel’s SS ...
