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25 June 2026

Keir Starmer told the House on Monday that he was resigning, and Britain will soon have its seventh prime minister in ten years

There is something orderly, almost gentle, about how the British system disposes of its prime ministers. The papers had been writing about it for a fortnight. The Burnham camp had been meeting publicly on Friday.

Public Policy

18 June 2026

On Energy, the Left Can Learn From Texas

There is a certain kind of policy debate where everyone is so busy being right about the principle that nobody bothers to check what is actually working. Energy is the one that gets it the worst.

Politics

16 June 2026

Three Submarines, Two Decades, One Vague Hope: A Modest Appreciation of AUKUS

There is, I am told by Senator James Paterson on the wireless this Thursday morning past, a "very grave risk of a capability gap emerging over the next two decades" in Australia's submarine fleet. A capability gap, you understand, is not the same as having no submarines.

Economics

16 June 2026

When Energy Goes to Zero, the Earnings Statements You Read Now Become Antiques

Charlie used to say that the most expensive four words in investing are "this time it's different." Charlie was usually right. He was, I believe, wrong about one thing, and the report from RethinkX called Understanding Stellar Energy is the clearest statement I have read of why.

Economics

16 June 2026

The Poverty Rate Has Collapsed. The Dependency Industry Refuses to Read the Number.

A new Cato research brief, drawing on work by Richard V. Burkhauser and Kevin Corinth published as NBER Working Paper No. 34759, has done what every honest measurement does: it has destroyed a myth.

Economics

11 June 2026

The Economist Has Finally Said Aloud What Australian Liberals Have Been Whispering

The lead leader of The Economist on 4 June carried a headline that, twenty years ago, would have been thought editorially impossible: "How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism."

Politics

11 June 2026

A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Spare a sympathetic thought for California, the only American state proud enough of its public administration to insist that counting paper takes a fortnight.

Politics

10 June 2026

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

The Albanese government has set aside two parliamentary sitting days for the inquiry into its proposed capital gains tax and negative gearing changes.

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Keir Starmer told the House on Monday that he was resigning, and Britain will soon have its seventh prime minister in ten years

The Coalition is now a minor party and One Nation is the alternative government, and the Roy Morgan numbers have stopped being a protest

Albanese and Chalmers got their tax package through the Senate, and the only Australians who escaped it were the ones with the best lobbyists

Albanese and Chalmers were carried out of their own press conference and called it consultation

Andrew Bragg has just discovered 51,000 home guarantees quietly issued to non-citizens, and the National Construction Code freeze is gone

On Energy, the Left Can Learn From Texas

The Economist Has Finally Said Aloud What Australian Liberals Have Been Whispering

A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

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A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

Australia's Economy Grapples with Stubborn Inflation and Rate Hike Reversal

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Keir Starmer told the House on Monday that he was resigning, and Britain will soon have its seventh prime minister in ten years

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The Economist Has Finally Said Aloud What Australian Liberals Have Been Whispering

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Keir Starmer told the House on Monday that he was resigning, and Britain will soon have its seventh prime minister in ten years

The Coalition is now a minor party and One Nation is the alternative government, and the Roy Morgan numbers have stopped being a protest

Albanese and Chalmers got their tax package through the Senate, and the only Australians who escaped it were the ones with the best lobbyists

Albanese and Chalmers were carried out of their own press conference and called it consultation

Andrew Bragg has just discovered 51,000 home guarantees quietly issued to non-citizens, and the National Construction Code freeze is gone

On Energy, the Left Can Learn From Texas

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A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

Australia's Economy Grapples with Stubborn Inflation and Rate Hike Reversal

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A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

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Keir Starmer told the House on Monday that he was resigning, and Britain will soon have its seventh prime minister in ten years

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