The modern leftist is simply unrecognisable from his or her earlier self.  There is not the remotest resemblance, and a new ideology has emerged that is as much a travesty of the Left’s former core values as are neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism on the right. Meanwhile, each of the major parties has absorbed the core policies of the other side and their differences have shrunk very close to zero

The democratic system (aka 'responsible government' and representative democracy) required two things in order to function properly: properly motivated politicians and informed voters.  Now we have neither, and this is why the system is so broken

It is one of those wicked problems and it will never be settled, history being what it is and with no going back.  But if we could have had an 'indigenous voice' in 1787, what might the Aboriginal representatives of the day have said and chosen had they been blessed with the objectivity conferred by the philosopher's 'veil of ignorance'?

Conservatives have lost some battles -- quite a few, actually -- but not the war. The problem has been that, as outsiders, we seek comfort in the hope that the Left's war on everything we value will simply go away.  It won’t.  Those fighting for all of the woke causes will never give up.  Nor should we

In the humble service of her people up to the last, Elizabeth II mere days ago welcomed her fifteenth British prime minister, the most recent in a conga line of leaders who have butchered Albion and created a nation not remotely recognisable as the one which greeted its new Sovereign in 1952. Our sad, vulgar, aggressively ignorant era has just grown darker

'The ruins of a dead consensus' is how the New Catallaxy blog recently described the Right’s current predicament, where now hatreds reign in place of the former marital bliss. There are a number of strands to the new resistance to the former liberal-conservative alliance to be unpacked, not least the need to to re-imagine the conservative project itself

To blame the deterioration of relations with Beijing on the Coalition is to wilfully misread recent history and, worse, to miss the far bigger picture. What Penny Wong is urging in her advocacy of 'normalised' relations is a return to the sorry record of obsequiousness to the Middle Kingdom. Sadly, she will find no shortage of prominent Australians eager to cheer her on

United by shared, often woke, ideologies rather than class interest, disparate voting blocs and their social media platforms are newly potent players in the game of electoral politics. They tolled the bell for Scott Morrison on May 21 and may yet ring out Boris Johnson -- two men with matching voids where once core principles might have been found

Come the next election in each and every jurisdiction which experienced COVID tyranny, we know exactly what you were up to.  And now you will pay.  For this ballot-box justice to prevail, alas, we need far fewer low-information voters than we seem to have at present