The Right doesn't have a clue. It has no killer instinct.

They have lost two TV programs: one ADH TV, and in the last week, The Other Side, hosted by Damien Coory, who said, when it was still going, that it's hard to produce a right wing program in a left wing country. Plenty of people watching, but not enough actually paying to keep it going.

There is nothing in the mainstream media remotely right; Spectator Australia is still going, but Quadrant, since the demise of Keith Windschuttle, is begging for donations. SkyNews. Subscription needed again.

The left gets its message out free, thanks to the ABC and MSM.

The party that used to be right of centre is now… well, WTF is it anymore? Talking about itself, and criticising what it should be allied with, One Nation, as it clings desperately to the sides of the toilet it's going down.

But, don't forget that the electorate seems to favour lying politicians promising a Socialist paradise, which might be the real problem.

I don’t agree with much of this article, but it is well-written and makes some telling points.

I do agree that Iran cannot be thought of, or treated as, another malign but rationally self-interested international actor that can be engaged with by the normal rules of diplomacy and statecraft. But the US action against it seems to have done little to permanently thwart its nuclear ambitions and has in many was strengthened its hand strategically and economically (especially in the Strait of Hormuz) while seriously damaging the fragile alliances linking the region’s less crackpot regimes. The USA seems to have entered this war without preparing its own people or its allies for the conflict and its consequences, and with absolutely no contingencies for what would happen if Plan A didn’t work.

I wish the US had succeeded in delivering regime change, ending Iran’s nuclear program and freeing its people from a brutal, murderous, theocratic tyranny. But it failed, like so many US military actions in recent years.