Every so often, history resolves an argument without consulting the people who were arguing. Positions that once looked irreconcilable are collapsed not by theory or politics, but by unknowable events. Artificial Intelligence appears to be doing exactly that – quietly reconciling a 19th Century socialist critique of bureaucracy with a 20th Century ...
When a PM is in crisis, what do they do? Sack the head of the civil service. Having lost both his Chief of Staff and Director of Communications at the beginning of the week, Keir Starmer resolved to make it a hattrick by dispensing with the services of his short-serving Cabinet Secretary. Poor old Chris Wormald is on the way out – but it does not look ...
Soon after winning the Queensland State election on 26 October 2024, the new Liberal National Premier, David Crisafulli, unexpectedly moved a motion in the Parliament to ban any discussion of abortion and to prohibit the introduction of any Bill dealing with this controversial topic for four years.
Consequently, following the successful adoption of the ...
Jim Ratcliffe is not a polished media performer, and neither does he have an accurate set of UK demographic statistics in his head. But how typical that the Prime Minister and his Labour colleagues, as well as the Guardian and many others, have chosen to latch onto a loose remark the billionaire Manchester United co-owner made about migration rather ...
Wes Streeting was bang on when he told Peter Mandelson the government had ‘no growth strategy at all’. The Health Secretary’s claim seems to have been confirmed by figures, just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which show Britain’s economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in the last three months of 2025. On a per capita basis the numbers ...
Sussan Ley always seemed set to be only an interim Liberal leader. If, as is likely, Angus Taylor wins the ballot on Friday morning, he could suffer the same fate. Taylor as leader would be under intense heat in coming months. He would be stalked by the ambitious Andrew Hastie,
A bevy of Liberal frontbenchers supporting Angus Taylor’s leadership challenge resigned their positions on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s 9am party vote. With momentum moving towards Taylor, his backers and those of Sussan Ley were working on the relatively small number of people whose votes were regarded as in play.
Ongoing claims of genocide perpetrated by Israel have reached the point where it is, in modern terms, normative.
That is, it is stated openly without opposition as if it were a declared fact.
In Australia, the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been filtered through this view in all mainstream media and state media reports on the issue. ...
Why was he here? It’s a question we are forced to ask over and over again in borderless Britain, after another asylum seeker is convicted of another monstrous crime. This time, it is the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. Twenty-three-year-old Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil was found guilty on Tuesday of rape, child abduction, sexual assault and ...
My friends never let me forget the first time I came to London. They couldn’t understand why I was so desperate to cross the city to meet them at London Bridge when I was coming into Paddington. The reason was simple: I thought London Bridge was actually Tower Bridge. I wanted to see this icon of the city for the first time. London left me sorely ...
Want to know what kind of country you live in? You live in a country in which there are more than 300 antisemitic incidents a month. Three-hundred. Every month. Last year, there were 80 incidents on Yom Kippur alone, including the Islamist attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester which resulted in the deaths of Melvin Cravitz and Adrian ...
The ABC has secured the rights to the Victorian Football League after Channel Seven dumped the iconic competition following a shake-up of AFL broadcast arrangements. The post ABC secures
Every so often, history resolves an argument without consulting the people who were arguing. Positions that once looked irreconcilable are collapsed not by theory or politics, but by unknowable events. Artificial Intelligence appears to be doing exactly that – quietly reconciling a 19th Century socialist critique of bureaucracy with a 20th Century ...
When a PM is in crisis, what do they do? Sack the head of the civil service. Having lost both his Chief of Staff and Director of Communications at the beginning of the week, Keir Starmer resolved to make it a hattrick by dispensing with the services of his short-serving Cabinet Secretary. Poor old Chris Wormald is on the way out – but it does not look ...
Soon after winning the Queensland State election on 26 October 2024, the new Liberal National Premier, David Crisafulli, unexpectedly moved a motion in the Parliament to ban any discussion of abortion and to prohibit the introduction of any Bill dealing with this controversial topic for four years.
Consequently, following the successful adoption of the ...
Jim Ratcliffe is not a polished media performer, and neither does he have an accurate set of UK demographic statistics in his head. But how typical that the Prime Minister and his Labour colleagues, as well as the Guardian and many others, have chosen to latch onto a loose remark the billionaire Manchester United co-owner made about migration rather ...
Wes Streeting was bang on when he told Peter Mandelson the government had ‘no growth strategy at all’. The Health Secretary’s claim seems to have been confirmed by figures, just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which show Britain’s economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in the last three months of 2025. On a per capita basis the numbers ...
Sussan Ley always seemed set to be only an interim Liberal leader. If, as is likely, Angus Taylor wins the ballot on Friday morning, he could suffer the same fate. Taylor as leader would be under intense heat in coming months. He would be stalked by the ambitious Andrew Hastie,
A bevy of Liberal frontbenchers supporting Angus Taylor’s leadership challenge resigned their positions on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s 9am party vote. With momentum moving towards Taylor, his backers and those of Sussan Ley were working on the relatively small number of people whose votes were regarded as in play.
Ongoing claims of genocide perpetrated by Israel have reached the point where it is, in modern terms, normative.
That is, it is stated openly without opposition as if it were a declared fact.
In Australia, the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been filtered through this view in all mainstream media and state media reports on the issue. ...
Why was he here? It’s a question we are forced to ask over and over again in borderless Britain, after another asylum seeker is convicted of another monstrous crime. This time, it is the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. Twenty-three-year-old Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil was found guilty on Tuesday of rape, child abduction, sexual assault and ...
My friends never let me forget the first time I came to London. They couldn’t understand why I was so desperate to cross the city to meet them at London Bridge when I was coming into Paddington. The reason was simple: I thought London Bridge was actually Tower Bridge. I wanted to see this icon of the city for the first time. London left me sorely ...
Want to know what kind of country you live in? You live in a country in which there are more than 300 antisemitic incidents a month. Three-hundred. Every month. Last year, there were 80 incidents on Yom Kippur alone, including the Islamist attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester which resulted in the deaths of Melvin Cravitz and Adrian ...
The ABC has secured the rights to the Victorian Football League after Channel Seven dumped the iconic competition following a shake-up of AFL broadcast arrangements. The post ABC secures