23 December 2025 Published on Substack —— It should not have taken the deaths of 15 innocent people for the Albanese government to crack down hard on the incitements to violence that have been rampant since the October 7 atrocity. Only if the government really has had a massive change of mind – and heart…
9 December 2025 Published in the Hungarian Conservative —— Australia is the only country in the world in recent times to have stopped a wave of illegal migration by boat. Just as Hungary is the only country in Europe to have secured its land borders by building a fence against illegal migration,[1] to the great…
22 November 2025 Published in the Spectator —— This is Greg Sheridan’s third volume of Christian apologetics. The first, Christians, was the case for Christian faith. The second, God is Good for You, was an exploration of the character and personality of Jesus. This latest work, How Christians Can Succeed Today, is essentially a call…
22 October 2025 Published on Substack —— While there’s much to cheer in the second Trump presidency’s foreign policy, such as the bombing of Iran’s nuclear faculties and the freeing of the Israeli hostages, there’s one especially puzzling anomaly from an administration otherwise pledged to winning the new Cold War with China. Why would a…
07 October 2025 Published on Substack —— When Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher came into office, the Western world was at a low ebb. The 1973 oil crisis had created stagflation. The US had comprehensively lost the Vietnam War. There was a pervasive sense of malaise, embodied in the high-minded but ineffectual presidency of Jimmy…
19 September 2025 Published on Substack —— America’s Inward Turn and the End of an Era Just prior to my first trip to Washington as Prime Minister in 2014, President Obama had declared at West Point that America could not be the world’s policeman on its own. Believing that the world needed a policeman, to…
11 September 2025 Published on Substack —— Just because immigration is a sensitive subject doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be discussed. In settler societies, there’s often a particular reticence because almost everyone is an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants and raising immigration issues can seem “personal” in a way few other debates are. But it’s…
1 September 2025 Published on Substack —— This, my inaugural Substack piece, will be one of many I write trying to make sense of what’s happening today, both geopolitically and culturally. I do not intend to tether myself to any particular set of topics in the coming years, but this article will give the reader…
Published in the Kyiv Post – 2 June 2025 —— The infamous Oval Office stand-off between Presidents Zelensky and Trump was quite possibly a seismic moment in history. Here was the leader of the free world berating the greatest freedom fighter of recent times for having the temerity to stand up for his country. While…
Published in the Australian, 31 May 2025 — In scale, the Liberals’ recent defeat rivals the rout of the old United Australia Party in 1943, that led to its demise and to the Liberals’ formation. It must mean a serious analysis of what’s gone wrong over recent times and what should change if the Liberals…
