Opposition Leader Sussan Ley made an appearance on Kyle and Jackie O a few days ago. We covered a lot of ground. From submarines to dating apps and how we are going to do things differently after our election defeat. The show began with an ad for rooftop solar panels, but I
To enormous fanfare, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price announced on Facebook that the Country Liberal Party Central Council had decided to scrap its support for Net Zero and wants to see Australia withdraw from the Paris Agreement. While it’s important to steward our country and environment well, that should not come
On June 14, Washington DC roared to life with the thunder of tanks, the wokka of choppers, and the march of some 7,000 soldiers celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the US Army. Hooah! This spectacle of military might and national pride, unusual in the self-loathing West, was a bold declaration
Emmanuel Macron spent his Sunday in Greenland on what can best be described as an anti-Trump visit. The French president dropped in on the Danish autonomous territory en route to this week’s G7 summit in Canada. Flanked by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Macron told
One Nation’s newly elected senator, Warwick Stacey, brings to the table skills and experience that most Australian politicians have only ever seen at the movies. Our own Professor David Flint has sung his praises, and after discussing Stacey’s views about the long-forgotten idea of representative democracy, in my opinion there
Senator Matt Canavan announced over the weekend: This afternoon [June 14] the NSW Nationals Party conference voted to abandon the commitment to Net Zero and to advocate for the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. People are sick and tired of Australians having to pay more for food, power, and
World David Sypher Jr. Donald Trump rides a golden escalator to a press event to announce his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 in New York City. (Getty)
I don’t monitor this stuff all the time. It would be soul destroying. All that happens is that I tune in, often by accident, and there is something which once again betrays the long term, institutional, anti-Israel bias of the BBC. So, Friday night’s television news and the Middle East
Israel’s assault on Iran represents a double helping of good news for the Kremlin. Years of two-track diplomacy have allowed Vladimir Putin to position himself both as a friend to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to the Iranian leadership. That will make Russia an indispensable partner for the US
On Wednesday, The Spectator dispatched me to Dominic Cummings’s Pharos lecture in Oxford. Packed into the Sheldonian theatre was an interesting crowd. I spotted several X anons, my A-Level politics teacher and Brass Eye creator Chris Morris. For many in the audience, this was a rare opportunity to see their
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley made an appearance on Kyle and Jackie O a few days ago. We covered a lot of ground. From submarines to dating apps and how we are going to do things differently after our election defeat. The show began with an ad for rooftop solar panels, but I
To enormous fanfare, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price announced on Facebook that the Country Liberal Party Central Council had decided to scrap its support for Net Zero and wants to see Australia withdraw from the Paris Agreement. While it’s important to steward our country and environment well, that should not come
On June 14, Washington DC roared to life with the thunder of tanks, the wokka of choppers, and the march of some 7,000 soldiers celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the US Army. Hooah! This spectacle of military might and national pride, unusual in the self-loathing West, was a bold declaration
Emmanuel Macron spent his Sunday in Greenland on what can best be described as an anti-Trump visit. The French president dropped in on the Danish autonomous territory en route to this week’s G7 summit in Canada. Flanked by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Macron told
One Nation’s newly elected senator, Warwick Stacey, brings to the table skills and experience that most Australian politicians have only ever seen at the movies. Our own Professor David Flint has sung his praises, and after discussing Stacey’s views about the long-forgotten idea of representative democracy, in my opinion there
Senator Matt Canavan announced over the weekend: This afternoon [June 14] the NSW Nationals Party conference voted to abandon the commitment to Net Zero and to advocate for the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. People are sick and tired of Australians having to pay more for food, power, and
World David Sypher Jr. Donald Trump rides a golden escalator to a press event to announce his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 in New York City. (Getty)
I don’t monitor this stuff all the time. It would be soul destroying. All that happens is that I tune in, often by accident, and there is something which once again betrays the long term, institutional, anti-Israel bias of the BBC. So, Friday night’s television news and the Middle East
Israel’s assault on Iran represents a double helping of good news for the Kremlin. Years of two-track diplomacy have allowed Vladimir Putin to position himself both as a friend to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to the Iranian leadership. That will make Russia an indispensable partner for the US
On Wednesday, The Spectator dispatched me to Dominic Cummings’s Pharos lecture in Oxford. Packed into the Sheldonian theatre was an interesting crowd. I spotted several X anons, my A-Level politics teacher and Brass Eye creator Chris Morris. For many in the audience, this was a rare opportunity to see their
