Time for tough love or Australia will go to the dogs

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Stray dogs opposite Thimphu Clock Tower, Bhutan, 25 July 2024

Unless we become a republic (God help us!) or the Wokerati win and bring about the ‘end of empire’ scenario they so desire, we need to reign in the anti-nationalist politicians, the militant unions and protesters, and the activist public servants who do not support Team Australia before we really do need to be neutered.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Time for tough love or Australia will go to the dogs.

Don’t kowtow to useful idiots, and say no to a republic

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Foro Romano. Constitutional monarchy is the most modern form of government

So, our young people are increasingly in favour of a republic? Help them pack for the Democratic Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or any other number of republics where the people there wish they lived here. 

It’s time we stopped this nonsense before we undo years of advancement that enabled people in the West to live longer, happier, healthier lives. 

It’s time we stopped kowtowing to useful idiots.

Alexandra Marshall had this to say in the Unfiltered newsletter:

Speaking of idiocy, Michael de Percy has made a really good point about the ‘useful idiots’ of the West – the kids who have grown up believing that communism is the Holy Grail of politics – the Utopia that they desperately want to install in Australia. It’s weird, because at the same time they go on and on and on about the plight of illegal migrants from the third world. Except, when they talk about the ‘third world’ they forget to mention it’s the ‘communist/socialist/Marxist’ world and that these people’s republics are pretty much all tyrannical sand pits for humanity’s worst individuals.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Don’t kowtow to useful idiots, and say no to a republic.

The Coalition must follow Trump’s lead

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Woke, the most putrid ideology to ever inflict liberal democracies, is finally crashing.

In America, Trump and Vance are emerging as Menzian in their outlook. What I mean by this is they are offering a more pragmatic policy platform that is not driven purely by ideology. The Coalition must follow Trump’s lead as it is only a matter of time before the reversal of the Woke trends in America hits our shores.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, The Coalition must follow Trump’s lead.

Trump and Vance will pull the socialist wool from our eyes

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JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is a great book and now a movie. But read the book first.

The recent alleged assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump has up-ended the virtue-signalling left’s rainbow lollipop la-la land. Trump has emerged as courageous, not just politically, but also physically. Compared to the noticeably ageing President Biden, Trump appears most capable of leading the free world.

Alexandra Marshall in the Unfiltered newsletter:

And Michael de Percy says that new VP JD Vance will ‘pull the socialist wool from our eyes’. The Republicans are still a little bit split on the Vance issue. I wouldn’t say it’s half-and-half, but certainly Vance’s blue-tinged background is holding a few back. It’ll be interesting how this race plays out...

Terry Barnes in the Morning Double Shot newsletter:

Your scribe agrees with Nikki Haley at the Republican convention: you can agree with someone, but don’t have to agree with him about everything. Thus your scribe agrees to disagree with our editor-in-chief on J D Vance. Yes, Vance offers an exciting VP package, a top communicator and, at 39, he is the same age as Richard Nixon when Ike selected him in 1952. But is he too inexperienced in government and, more to the point, too much like Trump to balance the Donald, both on the ticket and in the White House? It’s now done, and time will tell, but Michael de Percy’s in no doubt about a Trump-Vance ticket being an absolute ripper (though did he really have to take a dig at the great John Howard?), and Tim Stanley goes wild about J D in World.

My latest in The Spectator Australia,  Trump and Vance will pull the socialist wool from our eyes. 

Great Labor Split II: Albo’s succumbing to socialist dilemmas

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Woke is the Manifestation of Modern Communism

The Great Labor Split of 1955 stemmed from theoretical dilemmas that have always haunted the Western left’s fragmented socialism. 70 years on, Albo’s leadership is succumbing to those same socialist dilemmas.

Terry Barnes in the Morning Double Shot newsletter:

Meanwhile, back in Aussie, Michael de Percy sees signs that Labor is heading for another of its fratricidal splits, despite being comfortably in government and surrounded by its useful idiots – er, elite supporters. That the Prime Minister is proving weak and indecisive in confronting moral and social threats is making the likelihood of a fundamental Labor schism still greater.

And Alexandra Marshall in the Unfiltered newsletter:

And finally, this morning Michael de Percy takes us on a fascinating ride not only through the European Marxism and its foothold in UK politics – but also Albanese’s extremely serious and imminent problem with radicals and separatists colonising the Labor Party.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Great Labor Split II: Albo’s succumbing to socialist dilemmas.

Can future Liberals achieve small government?

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton says Australia's proposed nuclear reactor fleet will be government owned.

The Liberals have never achieved small government in Australia, and they are unlikely to do so because of our political culture and contemporary ideas about the role of government in society. Small government is an ideal that is most obvious when contrasted with Labor’s interventionist approach to markets. But the parties’ ideals rarely get in the way of pragmatism when it comes to electoral politics.

My latest opinion piece appears in Crikey's "Where to for real Liberals?", a new series on the future of the Liberal Party under Peter Dutton.

National security amid Albo’s hip and cool dereliction of duty

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Anthony Albanese is trying to be hip and cool to the left but he is seen weak by everyone else.

Channelling a new generation of hip and cool appeasers, our Prime Minister seems to get his priorities dangerously wrong. From his failed Voice Referendum to his celebration of Assange’s return (after a plea bargain where Assange was convicted under the US Espionage Act), Albo loves nothing better than being in the spotlight for his trendy actions.

The Prime Minister who ‘gets things done’ wants to appear hip and cool. But nothing can be further from the truth.

Whether it is the economy, energy, social cohesion, handling of the current antisemitism crisis, or issues affecting the Indigenous population, Albo is hell-bent on being on the ‘right side of history’.

But one cannot control the past or the future and he is neglecting the present.

My latest with Professor Sascha Dov Bachmann in The Spectator Australia, National security amid Albo’s hip and cool dereliction of duty.

No, Mr Bowen, community batteries are not a substitute for nuclear

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Community batteries will be used to store excess solar energy [Photo: © Depositphotos.com]

At a recent press conference in Bexley North in Sydney’s south, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced the opening of the latest community battery. Labor has promised to roll out at least 400 community batteries in the coming years.

In a tweet announcing the opening of the battery (which includes an EV charger), Mr Bowen stated:

This is practical, cheaper renewable energy now not expensive nuclear energy in 20 years.

But what Mr Bowen didn’t say is that this battery will not keep the lights on if the power goes out. And not only that, if the power goes out the battery ceases to function until the power comes back on.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

And finally, Michael de Percy tells Mr Bowen ‘no’. Community batteries are not the saviour of the renewable energy grid. Indeed, in most cases the batteries only work when the grid has power – so too bad if you thought they were a protection against blackouts. These wasteful, expensive installations are only adding to the bill – and what a nasty bill it is.

My article laso appeared in the Best of Flat White:

This week in Flat White, attention has shifted from the merits of nuclear to the serious problems with Chris Bowen’s battery future. Michael de Percy points out a gap of expectation and reality within the public. No, community batteries do not keep the lights on. Worse, some of the largest battery projects only work while the grid is functioning so anyone who thinks they will smooth over the wind droughts and cloudy days will be disappointed. They are not comparable to the baseload energy offered by nuclear, in spite of what the three-eyed fish memes from Labor say.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, No, Mr Bowen, community batteries are not a substitute for nuclear.

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