According to a Lowy Institute survey, support for the once and possibly future president has seen a threefold increase since 2016, with almost one-third of respondents now favouring his return to the White House. There's a message there for Australian conservatives, if they have the wit to heed it

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He's a monster, murderer, tyrant and thug, but Russia's supreme gangster gets it right in identifying the hallmarks and symptoms of the West's decline. If in the early years of Putin’s rule merging with the West was a goal, now it is to define a separate path. Russia wants to be a civilisation in its own right

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Whatever else she might be -- empire-builder, dispenser of six-figure grants to supportive NGOs, advocate of curbs on free speech that would be illegal under the First Amendment in her native America -- Julie Inman Grant is without a doubt the Sultana of Slippery. Sir Humphrey, eat your heart out

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Given the inclination, political provenance and Democrat affiliations of the New York judges who would hear Trump's appeal, one doesn't need to be clairvoyant to anticipate the result. Outflanking his accusers by going straight to a federal court might well be the course he chooses, especially as a decision would likely be delivered before election day

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Citing the Australian Library Association as a neutral observer about matters LGBTQ+ is like asking the Politburo to speak without fear or favour about Marxism. It’s an utterly captured organisation run by people who think the Teals care about power prices, the ABC is apolitical, and the male vagina actually exists

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Victorians today pay the highest fines, penalties and taxes while coping with rapidly eroding rights, potholed roads, underfunded hospitals and public services, housing crisis, record debt, and sky rocketing energy prices. It must be Labor's idea of Utopia. And for all this the man responsible gets a golden gong

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Leigh Sales thinks the sun shines out of Joe Biden, and an ABC colleague somehow manages to skate over his habit of hopping into the shower with his daughter, which would be the least of it if the national broadcaster could be bothered reporting the full breadth and depth of the First Clan's corruption

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Freedom from unjust incarceration hangs on the character of jurors who decide. Clearly, this was wanting in George Pell’s trial, as has been no less the case in the burlesque of judicial probity that has just pinned a conviction on Donald Trump. Be worried when common sense is banished from the courtroom, very worried indeed

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Elon Musk is loaded, so the cost of defending X from the eSafety Commissioner's now-aborted attack won't bankrupt him. Still, like any outfit selected by fiat to serve as a laboratory rat in the testing of a bureaucratic agency's 'novel regulatory powers', he has every right to be as miffed as he is out of pocket

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Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen and PM Anthony Albanese would like to see an EV, electric scooter or bike in every Australian garage. While this will do much to keep our firefighters busy, it will play merry hell with a grid that draws its wattage from utterly unreliable renewables

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