The WHO is finished: step away, Mr Dutton!

Peter Dutton with Michael de Percy in Goulburn, 22 January 2025.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a horse that’s been flogged to death. Then it’s been turned over and flogged again. Twice. Now it is time for Mr Dutton to put down the whip and step away.

The WHO’s situation is a result of the United Nations system being exhausted. Like the League of Nations before it, the UN has lost its way. Whereas the League was unable to stand up to Mussolini and Hitler, dictators and other anti-democratic leaders have managed to white-ant the UN from the inside.

Writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

As the US changes its international alliances, so too must Australia consider what it spends money on. The World Health Organisation was never considered a good deal for Australia and now it looks like an outright liability. With the loss of US funding, how long before the WHO comes digging around in our Treasury? Michael de Percy argues that it’s time for Dutton to step away from the WHO.

Days later, my article was still trending, and Terry Barnes had this to say in the Morning Doiuble SHot newsletter:

His piece has been running for a few days now, but it deserves widespread reading. Michael de Percy is delighted that Donald Trump is taking the United States out of the World Health Organisation, and wants Peter Dutton to do the same with Australia. Let’s face it, the WHO was in cahoots with China in refusing to sheet home Covid-19 to its place of origin – Wuhan – and was Xi Jinping’s willing beard when it came to dodging any international attempt to inquire into the origins of the virus. There’s little point trying to reform it, so defund WHO and walk away from it, as de Percy suggests.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, The WHO is finished: step away, Mr Dutton!

The World Health Organisation is dead, Mr Dutton, it's time to take Australia away from its hold...

"While leftist journalists are attacking Mr Dutton as Trump-lite, it is surely better to be Trump-lite than Labor-lite." - @FlaneurPolitiq https://t.co/27mVKIl6WL

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) February 3, 2025

Trump unshackles Australia Day

Donald Trump's actions have inspired Australians to reclaim Australia Day

 

Great things happened this week. Donald Trump multitasked his way into office as the liberator of Western culture, and The World According to Rowan Dean went back on air. It’s as if all my Christmases have come at once and corporate Australia can once again utter the words ‘Merry Christmas’ without choking on their hypocrisy.

Best of all, Trump’s first salvos fired at Woke ideology have unshackled Australia Day. The Wokerati won’t be able to hold back the tide now.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

Happy Australia Day holiday everyone. Today is the day to celebrate Australia, and Australianness, and Michael de Percy clearly thinks Donald Trump should be made an honorary Australian for reminding us that patriotism and defending one’s country’s values are once again a matter for pride, not the shame imposed on ordinary Australians by the wokerati like this year’s incongruous Australia Day AC, Megan Davis.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Trump unshackles Australia Day.

Trump’s first salvos fired at Woke ideology have unshackled Australia Day. The Wokerati won’t be able to hold back the tide now.

The silent majority breathed a sigh of relief when Trump took office. The Yoke of Woke was lifted, and ticker tape parades were bursting away inside… pic.twitter.com/dLgSfuDlL4

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 25, 2025

JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia

JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is not a far stretch from rural and regional Australia.

I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was in Shanghai in 2018. It turns out it was the most unlikely of places to buy the book – a country where his forthcoming role as Vice President of the United States is unlikely to garner support for his background. But for me, Hillbilly Elegy was an American version of my own upbringing (sans the drugs), and when Vance was announced as the next Vice-President of the United States, I immediately saw Trump’s reasoning.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

Meanwhile, Michael de Percy looks down the track, to 2028 and beyond. He is impressed by the new Vice-President, JD Vance, arguing that ‘he represents the American equivalent of the Anzac spirit’. Vance, according to de Percy, has political and philosophical values very much akin to the Australian character and mindset, and we can be grateful he is the dauphin to Donald Trump’s sun king.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia.

JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia | Michael de Percy (@FlaneurPolitiq)

JD Vance represents the American equivalent of the Anzac spirit. Willing to put one’s life on the line in service of one’s country.https://t.co/FVZLPiz316

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 19, 2025