In Australian political history there have been minor parties that were setting up for a big swing but ended up with no ding. The Democratic Labor Party, the Australian Democrats, and the Australian Greens and now, potentially, One Nation.
I’ve been arguing for some time that One Nation must get serious about its policy platform. With the party seeming ...
Most Australians know the economy is not working well. The GDP data show that Australia’s economy is growing, but many people feel that their living standards are not improving.
They are correct.
The most direct measure of living standards is real (inflation-adjusted) per capita GDP. Looking at the long-term trend of this measure, and its performance ...
Ann Widdecombe’s father, James Murray Widdecombe CB OBE, was born in Saltash, the small Cornish town where I grew up, looking across the Tamar to Plymouth.
Ann knew this geography in her bones. ‘My mother was born in Plymouth, my father in Saltash, and my Westcountry connections go back to 1715,’ she once said.
Those connections were not merely ...
It is hard not to grin. Our lawyerly soon-to-be-former Prime Minister, Mr Process, stands accused of, er, failing to follow the proper process.
Olly Robbins was chief mandarin at the Foreign Office until he was unceremoniously thrown under the bus by Starmer in a panicked attempt to find a scapegoat for his disastrous decision to appoint Peter ...
What’s wrong with National Service? Nothing.
It’s the name that’s the problem…
Mention ‘National Service’ to anyone over fifty and you’ll receive exactly the same reaction. Vietnam. Birthday ballots. Young men desperately hoping their number never came up. Political leaders who seemed more interested in pleasing Washington than listening to ...
Last Friday, a senior US official gave a background briefing to the media and made some news. First, Iranian officials contacted the United States through mediators and essentially apologised for their recent attacks against shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. And second, the Trump administration expected Tehran to issue a formal statement reiterating ...
Just eight months ago Shabana Mahmood’s Home Office published a document called, ‘A Fairer Pathway To Settlement’ which described the Boriswave as an ‘extraordinary open border experiment’, in which an additional 2.6 million people moved to this country between 2021 and 2024.
Many of these arrived under the health and care visa. This was a disastrous ...
We believe Australians have been lied to about skilled migration. And analysis of official data only exposes the tip of the iceberg. The entire system needs to be overturned.
Earlier this year, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke appeared on Indian Link’s Pawan Luthra Podcast, claiming: ‘Economically, we need immigration. We need the skills; we need the ...
The Western Australian government recently announced its trial of ‘Overt Live Facial Recognition Technology’. In fact, by the time you’re reading this, the trial will have already completed its first ‘planned deployments’.
The technology can adjust what categories of people are included in the ‘alert list’ that triggers an initial alert to law ...
There is a peculiar pathology at work in the commentary class of the Western right.
It is not stupidity, exactly.
It is something more insidious: a reflexive cynicism turned inward, a habit of holding its own side to standards it would never dream of applying to the left. The result is a circular firing squad, or, given how enthusiastically its ...
Kemi Badenoch today set out to prove that she means business when it comes to clearing out the Tory has-beens and wets. The Conservative leader announced that, following a leave of absence from the House of Lords, wetter-in-chief Gavin Barwell will not have the whip restored.
The former chief of staff to Theresa May sparked fury after repeatedly ...
Hell, I have come to realise, may not be other people, but repeated, everlasting exposure to 30-second radio adverts featuring one or more of the following:
A voiceover so annoying it creates a Pavlovian resentment – hatred, even – towards the relevant product or company.
A poisonous and moronically simplistic earworm jingle.
A terms and conditions ...
In Australian political history there have been minor parties that were setting up for a big swing but ended up with no ding. The Democratic Labor Party, the Australian Democrats, and the Australian Greens and now, potentially, One Nation.
I’ve been arguing for some time that One Nation must get serious about its policy platform. With the party seeming ...
Most Australians know the economy is not working well. The GDP data show that Australia’s economy is growing, but many people feel that their living standards are not improving.
They are correct.
The most direct measure of living standards is real (inflation-adjusted) per capita GDP. Looking at the long-term trend of this measure, and its performance ...
Ann Widdecombe’s father, James Murray Widdecombe CB OBE, was born in Saltash, the small Cornish town where I grew up, looking across the Tamar to Plymouth.
Ann knew this geography in her bones. ‘My mother was born in Plymouth, my father in Saltash, and my Westcountry connections go back to 1715,’ she once said.
Those connections were not merely ...
It is hard not to grin. Our lawyerly soon-to-be-former Prime Minister, Mr Process, stands accused of, er, failing to follow the proper process.
Olly Robbins was chief mandarin at the Foreign Office until he was unceremoniously thrown under the bus by Starmer in a panicked attempt to find a scapegoat for his disastrous decision to appoint Peter ...
What’s wrong with National Service? Nothing.
It’s the name that’s the problem…
Mention ‘National Service’ to anyone over fifty and you’ll receive exactly the same reaction. Vietnam. Birthday ballots. Young men desperately hoping their number never came up. Political leaders who seemed more interested in pleasing Washington than listening to ...
Last Friday, a senior US official gave a background briefing to the media and made some news. First, Iranian officials contacted the United States through mediators and essentially apologised for their recent attacks against shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. And second, the Trump administration expected Tehran to issue a formal statement reiterating ...
Just eight months ago Shabana Mahmood’s Home Office published a document called, ‘A Fairer Pathway To Settlement’ which described the Boriswave as an ‘extraordinary open border experiment’, in which an additional 2.6 million people moved to this country between 2021 and 2024.
Many of these arrived under the health and care visa. This was a disastrous ...
We believe Australians have been lied to about skilled migration. And analysis of official data only exposes the tip of the iceberg. The entire system needs to be overturned.
Earlier this year, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke appeared on Indian Link’s Pawan Luthra Podcast, claiming: ‘Economically, we need immigration. We need the skills; we need the ...
The Western Australian government recently announced its trial of ‘Overt Live Facial Recognition Technology’. In fact, by the time you’re reading this, the trial will have already completed its first ‘planned deployments’.
The technology can adjust what categories of people are included in the ‘alert list’ that triggers an initial alert to law ...
There is a peculiar pathology at work in the commentary class of the Western right.
It is not stupidity, exactly.
It is something more insidious: a reflexive cynicism turned inward, a habit of holding its own side to standards it would never dream of applying to the left. The result is a circular firing squad, or, given how enthusiastically its ...
Kemi Badenoch today set out to prove that she means business when it comes to clearing out the Tory has-beens and wets. The Conservative leader announced that, following a leave of absence from the House of Lords, wetter-in-chief Gavin Barwell will not have the whip restored.
The former chief of staff to Theresa May sparked fury after repeatedly ...
Hell, I have come to realise, may not be other people, but repeated, everlasting exposure to 30-second radio adverts featuring one or more of the following:
A voiceover so annoying it creates a Pavlovian resentment – hatred, even – towards the relevant product or company.
A poisonous and moronically simplistic earworm jingle.
A terms and conditions ...
