Last week I was fortunate to be invited as a panel guest for the 2025 Australians for Constitutional Monarchy National Conference run by Professor David Flint.
It was, partly, a conversation about how the dismissal of Gough Whitlam is perceived 50 years on. Former Prime Minister John Howard reminisced with his first-hand experience of the dismissal, ...
You know you’re not a proper political party, until you’ve had the obligatory youth wing scandal. Pubescent politicos have long been a feature of Westminster life. In the Starmer army they have NOLS – National Labour Students, where generations of power-crazed identikit drones have been churned out, each bearing the same dead eyes and rictus grin. The ...
Anthony Albanese has denounced Gough Whitlam’s dismissal from office in 1975 as “a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces which sacrificed conventions and institutions in the pursuit of power”. Albanese said the election that followed – won by Malcolm Fraser in a landslide – did “not wash any of that
As Washington rolls out the red carpet today for the former al-Qaeda chieftain and now Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s minorities continue to live in terror. An army of destruction, half Mad Max, half Lollapalooza is rolling through the desert somewhere south of the country’s capital, Damascus. Who has ordered these militants into action? No ...
Another Director-General bites the dust. And the number two with him. What a facepalm. What a honking, stupid, first-day-in-the office sort of error to make. What cost Tim Davie his job, and presents the BBC with its latest existential crisis, was not just an error: it was an unforced error of the most wince-making kind.
Defenders of the BBC regard ...
I’m not going to rehash here the details of the memorandum by Michael Prescott, the former independent editorial standards adviser to the BBC, which has now led to the resignations of both Tim Davie, director-general, and Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News. You’d have to have been in a cave for the past week – or, perhaps, watching BBC News – not to know ...
The resignations of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness over dishonest editing of a speech in 2021 by US President Donald Trump raise several disturbing questions. These concern the effectiveness and integrity of the BBC’s internal editorial procedures for investigating complaints, and the pressure being
The CBO’s latest projections expose the gap between Trump’s tough talk on deportations and the far smaller numbers experts expect he can deliver. read now...
With the OECD recognising a significant global slowdown in the appetite of nations to adopt CO2-reducing policies, on Wednesday, the Liberal Party is set to agree a new policy on renewable energy subsidies. These subsidies have been progressively increased over the past 25 years under a policy was sanctified by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. ...
The tech giant also won't say if it is the mystery group that engaged a top Australian constitutional expert about the teen social media ban. The post Google puts YouTube’s
One of the greatest dangers posed by the government’s curriculum review is that it will result in children abandoning more demanding subjects such as history, geography and languages at GCSE. This is the fear voiced by a number of educationists, including Baroness Spielman, the former chief of inspector at Ofsted, who said that scrapping the English ...
A new statue unveiled in recent days in Iran depicts a Roman emperor in subjection to a Persian king. Erected in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, the statue titled Kneeling Before Iran shows the emperor grovelling before Shapur I (who ruled around 242–270 CE). But where did this imagery come
Last week I was fortunate to be invited as a panel guest for the 2025 Australians for Constitutional Monarchy National Conference run by Professor David Flint.
It was, partly, a conversation about how the dismissal of Gough Whitlam is perceived 50 years on. Former Prime Minister John Howard reminisced with his first-hand experience of the dismissal, ...
You know you’re not a proper political party, until you’ve had the obligatory youth wing scandal. Pubescent politicos have long been a feature of Westminster life. In the Starmer army they have NOLS – National Labour Students, where generations of power-crazed identikit drones have been churned out, each bearing the same dead eyes and rictus grin. The ...
Anthony Albanese has denounced Gough Whitlam’s dismissal from office in 1975 as “a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces which sacrificed conventions and institutions in the pursuit of power”. Albanese said the election that followed – won by Malcolm Fraser in a landslide – did “not wash any of that
As Washington rolls out the red carpet today for the former al-Qaeda chieftain and now Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s minorities continue to live in terror. An army of destruction, half Mad Max, half Lollapalooza is rolling through the desert somewhere south of the country’s capital, Damascus. Who has ordered these militants into action? No ...
Another Director-General bites the dust. And the number two with him. What a facepalm. What a honking, stupid, first-day-in-the office sort of error to make. What cost Tim Davie his job, and presents the BBC with its latest existential crisis, was not just an error: it was an unforced error of the most wince-making kind.
Defenders of the BBC regard ...
I’m not going to rehash here the details of the memorandum by Michael Prescott, the former independent editorial standards adviser to the BBC, which has now led to the resignations of both Tim Davie, director-general, and Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News. You’d have to have been in a cave for the past week – or, perhaps, watching BBC News – not to know ...
The resignations of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness over dishonest editing of a speech in 2021 by US President Donald Trump raise several disturbing questions. These concern the effectiveness and integrity of the BBC’s internal editorial procedures for investigating complaints, and the pressure being
The CBO’s latest projections expose the gap between Trump’s tough talk on deportations and the far smaller numbers experts expect he can deliver. read now...
With the OECD recognising a significant global slowdown in the appetite of nations to adopt CO2-reducing policies, on Wednesday, the Liberal Party is set to agree a new policy on renewable energy subsidies. These subsidies have been progressively increased over the past 25 years under a policy was sanctified by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. ...
The tech giant also won't say if it is the mystery group that engaged a top Australian constitutional expert about the teen social media ban. The post Google puts YouTube’s
One of the greatest dangers posed by the government’s curriculum review is that it will result in children abandoning more demanding subjects such as history, geography and languages at GCSE. This is the fear voiced by a number of educationists, including Baroness Spielman, the former chief of inspector at Ofsted, who said that scrapping the English ...
A new statue unveiled in recent days in Iran depicts a Roman emperor in subjection to a Persian king. Erected in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, the statue titled Kneeling Before Iran shows the emperor grovelling before Shapur I (who ruled around 242–270 CE). But where did this imagery come