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Piers Akerman is an opinion columnist with The Sunday Telegraph. He has extensive media experience, including in the US and UK, and has edited a number of major Australian newspapers.

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A Silicon Valley Bank office is seen in Tempe, Arizona, on March 14, 2023. - With hindsight, there were warning signs ahead of last week's spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, missed not only by investors, but by bank regulators. Just why the oversight failed remained a hot question among banking experts, with some focusing on the weakness of US rules. (Photo by REBECCA NOBLE / AFP)

Virtue-signalling has no business in reality

A bank closing in Silicon Valley and a natural gas shortage are both caused by inane virtue-signalling, argues Piers Akerman.

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 1, 2022) The future Virginia-class attack submarine Montana (SSN 794) conducts initial sea trials Feb. 1, 2022 in the Atlantic Ocean. Montana is the 10th Virginia-class submarine. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of HII by Ashley Cowan)

Politics risk scuttling subs deal

A nuclear submarine designed by committee will please all AUKUS partners but not the unfortunate Australian taxpayer.

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Queer comic Reuben Kaye is in trouble for making a Jesus joke on The Project. 28 March 2023. Picture: The Project/Channel 10

Jesus joke shows shamefully shallow nature of The Project

Belated apology to appalling anti-Christian joke exposes the shamefully shallow nature of The Project, writes Piers Akerman.

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Soldiers on the front line of the current Ukrainian offensive have thanked Australia for providing Bushmasters, which have played a huge role in the recent liberation of Kharkiv. Picture: Defense of Ukraine

Blood is the price that has to be paid if Ukraine is going to be free

There will always be those who preach peace when they what really are doing is seeking to appease the international thugs to further their own interests, writes Piers Akerman.

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*POOL* NSW Treasurer Matt Kean (far left), Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen (second left), NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet (centre), and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (third right) tour the site of the new Waratah Super Battery project, located at the former Munmorah Power Station in Colongra, NSW, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Picture: AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi via NCA Newswire - NO ARCHIVING

Believers of renewables fantasy are dragging us into energy crisis

The Albanese Labor government is waltzing the nation into disasters on multiple fronts — energy, constitutional change, economic management — but the electorate is reluctant to admit it voted for a dog, writes Piers Akerman.

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ESSENBACH, GERMANY - JULY 12: The Kernkraftwerk Isar nuclear power plant stands on July 12, 2022 near Essenbach, Germany. Germany's federal coalition government is considering letting Germany's remaining three nuclear power plants, including the Isar 2 reactor, which are supposed to shut down by the end of this year, to continue operating a short time longer in order to help bridge a possible energy shortfall this coming winter. Germany is still dependent on Russia for a large portion of its energy imports and is facing a possible shortage of natural gas should Russia continue to diminish its gas deliveries following tensions over Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. (Photo by Lukas Barth/Getty Images)

Labor’s nuclear naysayers blind to its benefits

A Year 11 student has done more than the government to put the facts on nuclear energy before the people, writes Piers Akerman.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos February 2, 2023: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers MP during a press conference at 4 Treasury place in Melbourne. Picture NCA NewsWire / Aaron Francis

Greenhorn Treasurer Jim Chalmers is playing a dangerous game

‘Treasurer Jim’ Cairns was hardly a resounding success yet seems to be the role model for the current Treasurer Jim Chalmers, writes Piers Akerman.

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24-01-2023 - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a press conference in Alice Springs after meeting with local leaders and Chief Minister Natasha Fyles. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Abhorrent situation in Alice won’t be helped by urban Voice activists

There is nothing in the Voice to Parliament referendum options being promoted that addresses the clear and immediate problems in Alice Springs, writes Piers Akerman.

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SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES - MARCH 02: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adern addresses the media at Kirribilli House on March 2, 2018 in Sydney, Australia. The New Zealand Prime Minister is on a two-day visit to Australia to attend the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum. The annual Australia New Zealand Leaders' Meeting recognises the significance of the connection between the two countries. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Kiwis say ‘tanks for nothing’ Ardern

Realists know when former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she no longer had ‘enough in the tank’ to continue governing, she knew New Zealand had tanked, writes Piers Akerman.

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VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - JUNE 29: Australian Cardinal George Pell attends a press conference at the Holy See Press Room on June 29, 2017 in Vatican City, Vatican. Former archbishop of Sydney cardinal Pell has been charged over historic sex assault offences. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Redferns)

Lefty grenades keep culture wars alive

Despite claims to the contrary, the culture wars are not only alive, they are virulently raging at every level of society and 2023 will only see them increase exponentially.

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