This week (on 13 October) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Thatcher. Arguably, no Prime Minister since the second world war sought to change Britain and its place in the world as much as she did. Lady Thatcher led the Conservative Party for fifteen years and held the keys to 10 Downing Street for eleven and a half years, the longest ...
Two years ago today, Victorians spoke clearly. We voted to be equal and to be one people, and we voted ‘No’ to racial division in our Constitution.
So, it is not without a sense of irony that, two years to the very day, the Victorian Parliament will debate new treaty laws which will divide us permanently by race, this time at a state level.
Under the ...
Brett Sutton’s recent comments that some measures implemented during the pandemic were ‘probably never necessary’ is the kind of nuance that would have been most welcome when he was Victoria’s Chief Health Officer and Daniel Andrews imposed a draconian 262-day lockdown.
It is easy for Sutton to make these comments in retrospect, but it must be ...
Wasn’t Labour supposed to be tackling the scourge of insecure employment, doing away with exploitative zero hours contracts and giving employees protection against unfair dismissal from the first day they start their jobs? How odd then that so far it seems to have achieved the exact opposite. The latest labour market figures released by the Office for ...
To the Guildhall where hundreds of Thatcherites last night met to pay tribute to the Iron Lady. On the centenary of her birth, a roll call of the great and the good was assembled by the eponymous centre named in her honour. Highlights of the evening included Jeffrey Archer’s auction, where he told the crowd that ‘having been up and down the country’ on ...
The Greens are having quite a moment. Since the anointing of Zack Polanski as leader of the party, there’s been a 45 per cent increase in the membership, which is now up to about a hundred thousand believers. The party is also doing very well, comparatively speaking, in opinion polling, reaching about 15 per cent, not very far behind the Tories.
The ...
Defenders of free expression can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Hamit Coskun – the man who burnt a Quran outside the Turkish Consulate in London in February and was found guilty of a ‘religiously aggravated public order offence’ – had his conviction overturned at Southwark Crown Court on Friday.
People are still scared to blaspheme against ...
A political party widely referred to as ‘the Tories’ has now existed – albeit with some rather serious discontinuities along the way – for just short of 350 years. The rise of Reform and apparently terminal decline of the Tories in the polls, Kemi Badenoch’s widely praised conference speech notwithstanding, has, however, made many start to think the ...
Imagine, for a moment, the world we narrowly escaped. A world in which Joe Biden, frail and fading, remained in the 2024 presidential race and, with the exhausted assent of a compliant media and a protective establishment, was returned to the White House. A world in which his decisive televised collapse never quite happened or was quickly obscured. In ...
As the Liberal Party’s most promising young talent in Hastie and Price lie in wait on the backbench, Leader Sussan Ley has undertaken a necessary reshuffle of the survivors.
The new Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, replacing Hastie, is Tasmanian Senator Jonathon Duniam.
This appointment is, according to Ley, ‘one of the most significant decisions’ for ...
When Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize, his entire lecture – titled ‘The Pretence of Knowledge’ – was an attack on economics itself. He believed economists were more worried about looking scientific than actually being scientific. The lecture was so controversial that Economica, the LSE journal that had published Hayek’s work since he was a young ...
To the Cliveden Literary Festival, where Health Secretary Wes Streeting has offered up his support for Sir Keir Starmer’s Brexit attack strategy. The Prime Minister is planning to use Brexit – and Nigel Farage’s part in the campaign – as a way to both excuse the difficult decisions that will be made in next month’s Budget and as a means to take the ...
This week (on 13 October) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Thatcher. Arguably, no Prime Minister since the second world war sought to change Britain and its place in the world as much as she did. Lady Thatcher led the Conservative Party for fifteen years and held the keys to 10 Downing Street for eleven and a half years, the longest ...
Two years ago today, Victorians spoke clearly. We voted to be equal and to be one people, and we voted ‘No’ to racial division in our Constitution.
So, it is not without a sense of irony that, two years to the very day, the Victorian Parliament will debate new treaty laws which will divide us permanently by race, this time at a state level.
Under the ...
Brett Sutton’s recent comments that some measures implemented during the pandemic were ‘probably never necessary’ is the kind of nuance that would have been most welcome when he was Victoria’s Chief Health Officer and Daniel Andrews imposed a draconian 262-day lockdown.
It is easy for Sutton to make these comments in retrospect, but it must be ...
Wasn’t Labour supposed to be tackling the scourge of insecure employment, doing away with exploitative zero hours contracts and giving employees protection against unfair dismissal from the first day they start their jobs? How odd then that so far it seems to have achieved the exact opposite. The latest labour market figures released by the Office for ...
To the Guildhall where hundreds of Thatcherites last night met to pay tribute to the Iron Lady. On the centenary of her birth, a roll call of the great and the good was assembled by the eponymous centre named in her honour. Highlights of the evening included Jeffrey Archer’s auction, where he told the crowd that ‘having been up and down the country’ on ...
The Greens are having quite a moment. Since the anointing of Zack Polanski as leader of the party, there’s been a 45 per cent increase in the membership, which is now up to about a hundred thousand believers. The party is also doing very well, comparatively speaking, in opinion polling, reaching about 15 per cent, not very far behind the Tories.
The ...
Defenders of free expression can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Hamit Coskun – the man who burnt a Quran outside the Turkish Consulate in London in February and was found guilty of a ‘religiously aggravated public order offence’ – had his conviction overturned at Southwark Crown Court on Friday.
People are still scared to blaspheme against ...
A political party widely referred to as ‘the Tories’ has now existed – albeit with some rather serious discontinuities along the way – for just short of 350 years. The rise of Reform and apparently terminal decline of the Tories in the polls, Kemi Badenoch’s widely praised conference speech notwithstanding, has, however, made many start to think the ...
Imagine, for a moment, the world we narrowly escaped. A world in which Joe Biden, frail and fading, remained in the 2024 presidential race and, with the exhausted assent of a compliant media and a protective establishment, was returned to the White House. A world in which his decisive televised collapse never quite happened or was quickly obscured. In ...
As the Liberal Party’s most promising young talent in Hastie and Price lie in wait on the backbench, Leader Sussan Ley has undertaken a necessary reshuffle of the survivors.
The new Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, replacing Hastie, is Tasmanian Senator Jonathon Duniam.
This appointment is, according to Ley, ‘one of the most significant decisions’ for ...
When Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize, his entire lecture – titled ‘The Pretence of Knowledge’ – was an attack on economics itself. He believed economists were more worried about looking scientific than actually being scientific. The lecture was so controversial that Economica, the LSE journal that had published Hayek’s work since he was a young ...
To the Cliveden Literary Festival, where Health Secretary Wes Streeting has offered up his support for Sir Keir Starmer’s Brexit attack strategy. The Prime Minister is planning to use Brexit – and Nigel Farage’s part in the campaign – as a way to both excuse the difficult decisions that will be made in next month’s Budget and as a means to take the ...
