The wrong stuff!

Albo’s stitching is undone, and his fluff is showing.

Appearing at the National Press Club after his 2025 election victory, Anthony Albanese strutted like a peacock. Buoyed by a feeble opposition that couldn’t land a punch, his failure on the Voice referendum and quiet withdrawal of the Assistant Minister for a Republic portfolio were quickly forgotten. But as the harsh realities of governance bear down, the Prime Minister’s carefully stitched-together image is unravelling, revealing nothing but fluff beneath.

His embarrassingly weak responses to crises at home and abroad are set against an economy that is teetering on shifting sands.

Albo’s tenure is a tale of big talk and zero delivery. I’ve never heard so much meaningless fluff from an Australian Prime Minister.

In the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes wrote:

Michael de Percy’s back from his German sojourn., and he’s taken his axe-like pen to our Incredible Shrinking Prime Minister. As Michael writes, Anthony Albanese has been all talk and in 2026, with likely ongoing inflation, interest rate rises, increasing energy retail prices, and China likely to make a play for Taiwan sooner rather than later – just to name a few annoying little issues. And his prevarications and contortions on an anti-Semitism royal commission – which by necessity should consider the damage to the social fabric cause, as enabled by Australian policy – highlight how Albanese is a merely sectional, rather than a national, leader.

My latest in The Specator Australia, The wrong stuff!

By Albo’s reckoning, a Royal Commission is only the right response when it is not your government that has messed up.

His response to Bondi wasn’t leadership, it was a weak whimper in a time that demanded fortitude.

If his response to the Bondi massacre wasn’t enough, Mr… pic.twitter.com/HCH3JU1wyd

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 6, 2026

New York is now the most idiotic city in the world

New York never sleeps because people are having nightmares about communism's failures.

New York’s newly elected mayor might wax poetic about collective warmth, but history shows it’s more like a fever dream that burns everything in its path.

If Frank Sinatra were to wake up in the city that never sleeps today, it wouldn’t be because of all the partying and vibrant nightlife he crooned about. It would be because everyone is having nightmares about skyrocketing taxes, crumbling infrastructure, and a bureaucracy that stifles the very spirit that made New York iconic.

The Big Apple, once a symbol of ambition and opportunity, is rotting from the core with this idiotic pivot to collectivism.

My laest in The Spectator Australia, New York is now the most idiotic city in the world.

#NewYorkCity embraces 'the warmth' 🔥 of socialism (?)

New York, the beating heart of American capitalism, is now poised to embrace the very ideologies that the United States spent decades and trillions of dollars fighting to contain. In the proxy battles of the Cold War,… pic.twitter.com/jFyWBDCl7n

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 3, 2026

Make Sydney and Melbourne city-states

How else are we going to save New South Wales and Victoria?

The rift between Australia’s big cities and their regional counterparts is no secret. Sydney and Melbourne, with their swelling populations and progressive agendas, wield disproportionate influence over state governments.

Take, for example, policies cooked up in the cities: cancelling Christmas, funding climate change grifters, expansive socialist housing programs, and a raft of ‘progressive’ ideas that undermine individual freedoms and the primacy of the family.

Such progressive nonsense undermines the realities of life in the bush.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Make Sydney and Melbourne city-states. 

With wayward political ideologies hell-bent on bankrupting our two largest cities, Australia’s federation is due for a refresh.

To save the democracies of New South Wales and Victoria, Sydney and Melbourne should be carved out of the existing states to become independent… pic.twitter.com/jWEJukTYFX

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) January 2, 2026