Back in January, Spartacus argued that Australia should work with the US to drop the UK from Aukus and bring in the Japanese to make Aujus.
Nine months later, I hold that view more strongly than ever, mainly because the US Air Force has kindly supplied more supporting evidence by pulling all 12 of its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford.
The WSJ Editorial ...
As published on Liberal.org.au
Good morning CPAC. It’s great to be with you.
When the Liberal Party was last in government, we got some big things right, but we got some important things wrong too.
We stopped the boats.
But we made the mistake of allowing immigration numbers to creep up, especially student and bridging visas, which have subsequently ...
For Competition 3470, you were invited to submit a very pretty lyric poem about something ugly or unpleasant. Purely as poems, the entries were of an extremely high standard. Not all, however, observed both the rule about being very pretty and the one about the subjects being unpleasant. (Trigger warning: the second of these certainly wasn’t a problem ...
Damian Thompson’s recent recollection in these pages of British cleric Brian Brindley’s 70th birthday blow-out was as much a cautionary tale as an epicurean homage. Once you’ve passed 65 it’s reasonable to assume that every meal you have with older friends might be the last time you see them, and reading about the inter-course demise of Canon Brindley ...
What is it in our interests to do about immigration? The ancient Athenians came up with an interesting answer.
Any non-Athenian who wanted to take up residence in Athens had to register as a metoikos (‘one who changes home’, metic) with the state and their local authority. They paid a monthly tax, were liable for military service, but could not own ...
Australians’ pessimism about the future of the country is now probably at its highest level. Polling suggests an extraordinary two out of three Australians say the country is heading in the wrong direction.
This is hardly surprising. Despite our enormous wealth and the hard work of our people, the country is being led toward decline and ruin by a ...
This Halloween, punters at a silent disco in Shepton Mallet’s former prison will be dancing on the graves of executed men, those who were hanged on the gallows (which remained until 1967) and buried in the grounds. The evening is promoted as ‘a scary night out behind bars’, hosted by ‘Governor Grim’, offering clubbers ‘Cell block anthems’ and ...
Last year’s Conservative party conference was a difficult one. Reform UK was leading the polls; the local election results had been as painful as the general election the year before; and the story at conference was not Kemi Badenoch’s successes, but speculation over Robert Jenrick’s attempts to replace her. Adversity, however, proved her friend. The ...
Harold Pinter is one of the great dramatists of the last hundred years, perhaps the only one who can hold a candle to Beckett but richer in tone than the Irishman at least in his later work. Pinter does a fine line in his own variety of absurdism but he tends to be close to blood and laughter and he also has the tremendous benefit of having a ...
A chess game can run you ragged in myriad ways, but in my experience the most exacting ingredient is neither the length of the game nor the strength of the opposition. Rather, it’s the sensation of walking a tightrope, knowing that even a minor misstep can make the difference between winning and losing.
I played one such game for England at the recent ...
The release of the Coalition’s immigration policy coincided with the third anniversary this week of the horrific 7 October massacre, rapes and abductions in Israel, when 1,200 innocent souls were butchered in the most savage manner by Palestinian Gazans led by Hamas. Whether the timing is deliberate or not, it is apt. It is impossible not to see the ...
‘The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation: that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.’ That’s the great William Shakespeare in Richard II. Reputation is hard to establish. Once lost, it’s brutally hard to recover and losing it comes with significant costs too. That’s the gist of the Bard’s point.
And we see it manifested ...
Back in January, Spartacus argued that Australia should work with the US to drop the UK from Aukus and bring in the Japanese to make Aujus.
Nine months later, I hold that view more strongly than ever, mainly because the US Air Force has kindly supplied more supporting evidence by pulling all 12 of its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford.
The WSJ Editorial ...
As published on Liberal.org.au
Good morning CPAC. It’s great to be with you.
When the Liberal Party was last in government, we got some big things right, but we got some important things wrong too.
We stopped the boats.
But we made the mistake of allowing immigration numbers to creep up, especially student and bridging visas, which have subsequently ...
For Competition 3470, you were invited to submit a very pretty lyric poem about something ugly or unpleasant. Purely as poems, the entries were of an extremely high standard. Not all, however, observed both the rule about being very pretty and the one about the subjects being unpleasant. (Trigger warning: the second of these certainly wasn’t a problem ...
Damian Thompson’s recent recollection in these pages of British cleric Brian Brindley’s 70th birthday blow-out was as much a cautionary tale as an epicurean homage. Once you’ve passed 65 it’s reasonable to assume that every meal you have with older friends might be the last time you see them, and reading about the inter-course demise of Canon Brindley ...
What is it in our interests to do about immigration? The ancient Athenians came up with an interesting answer.
Any non-Athenian who wanted to take up residence in Athens had to register as a metoikos (‘one who changes home’, metic) with the state and their local authority. They paid a monthly tax, were liable for military service, but could not own ...
Australians’ pessimism about the future of the country is now probably at its highest level. Polling suggests an extraordinary two out of three Australians say the country is heading in the wrong direction.
This is hardly surprising. Despite our enormous wealth and the hard work of our people, the country is being led toward decline and ruin by a ...
This Halloween, punters at a silent disco in Shepton Mallet’s former prison will be dancing on the graves of executed men, those who were hanged on the gallows (which remained until 1967) and buried in the grounds. The evening is promoted as ‘a scary night out behind bars’, hosted by ‘Governor Grim’, offering clubbers ‘Cell block anthems’ and ...
Last year’s Conservative party conference was a difficult one. Reform UK was leading the polls; the local election results had been as painful as the general election the year before; and the story at conference was not Kemi Badenoch’s successes, but speculation over Robert Jenrick’s attempts to replace her. Adversity, however, proved her friend. The ...
Harold Pinter is one of the great dramatists of the last hundred years, perhaps the only one who can hold a candle to Beckett but richer in tone than the Irishman at least in his later work. Pinter does a fine line in his own variety of absurdism but he tends to be close to blood and laughter and he also has the tremendous benefit of having a ...
A chess game can run you ragged in myriad ways, but in my experience the most exacting ingredient is neither the length of the game nor the strength of the opposition. Rather, it’s the sensation of walking a tightrope, knowing that even a minor misstep can make the difference between winning and losing.
I played one such game for England at the recent ...
The release of the Coalition’s immigration policy coincided with the third anniversary this week of the horrific 7 October massacre, rapes and abductions in Israel, when 1,200 innocent souls were butchered in the most savage manner by Palestinian Gazans led by Hamas. Whether the timing is deliberate or not, it is apt. It is impossible not to see the ...
‘The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation: that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.’ That’s the great William Shakespeare in Richard II. Reputation is hard to establish. Once lost, it’s brutally hard to recover and losing it comes with significant costs too. That’s the gist of the Bard’s point.
And we see it manifested ...
