Lame-duck Trump has plenty of time to cause trouble
Making political predictions can be about as foolhardy as walking into a Las Vegas casino and predicting success at the…
The good and bad news for Trump about the US economy
With voting day finally here, what can the state of the US economy tell us about tonight’s result? While the United…
Macron has exposed the cowardice of Boris’s response to terror
Sometimes what a politician leaves unsaid tells us more than what he does say. Take the different reactions to the wave…
The Vienna attack is a bitter blow for Sebastian Kurz
With Austria’s latest Covid lockdown due to begin at midnight, Viennese citizens were enjoying a final night of freedom. And…
Queensland poll post mortems are missing the bigger picture
The ALP in Queensland has just won its third election in a row under Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, stunning almost all…
Contracting out High Court appointments to Ancestry.com
When I was young I played a lot of competitive team sports. One of them was baseball on teams coached…
Democrats get last-minute election jitters
The Biden campaign is far from confident heading into Tuesday’s election and their behavior proves it. It’s not uncommon for…
Johnson lays out the lockdown exit strategy
Boris Johnson’s statement to the House of Commons this afternoon was a reminder of how much more difficult this second…
France is under attack because of its culture, not its cartoons
Let us imagine for a moment that Emmanuel Macron takes the advice of many in the Anglophone world and bans…
Why Joe Biden will win tomorrow
Joe Biden is going to win. I have been wrong before. I will be wrong again. And maybe I’m wrong…
Bordering on the absurd
November 3 is shaping up as a big day in the 2020 calendar: the US elections; the Melbourne Cup; and…
Why the Democrats are still haunted by Florida
As we get closer to the American election, Democrats in swing states like Pennsylvania and Arizona are sounding notes of…
Kamala Harris vs James Madison
If Joe Biden loses the presidential election tomorrow, he will not have any shortage of people to blame. The first…
Lockdown isn’t working
Our approach to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a scientific folly. While some mortality is unavoidable during a pandemic, the…
What if this election had been COVID-free?
Imagine there’s no COVID. It’s not that easy even if you try. The pandemic fogs up everything now. But it’s…
Will dislike of Trump vaudeville push the President out?
Tens of millions of American youngsters are this week facing the ballot box for the first time and their choice…
No, the United States isn’t on the verge of civil war
As the US enters the final straight of what has been — to put it mildly — a highly unusual…
Education in reverse
Just when you thought radical cultural-left ideology and political correctness could get no worse along comes its most recent manifestation…
Holgate’s parachute packed
Christine Holgate, Australia Post’s MD and CEO, has packed her parachute and is preparing to jump or be pushed from…
Who’s really being silenced on campus?
The never-ending social justice messaging from our college and university presidents and their legions of diversity, equity and inclusion officers…
Boris’s ‘Captain Hindsight’ attack backfires
Boris Johnson may be able to explain his U-turn on imposing a second national lockdown on England in policy terms,…
Donald Trump, American Churchill
It is no exaggeration to conclude that humanity is approaching a crucial turning point, with one path leading us further…
Backsliding on a lockdown end-date has begun already
Will England’s lockdown end on 2 December? Even before this morning’s media round there was good reason to suspect it…
Instead of lockdown, let’s create a National Shielding Service
So what would you do? That was the question that cropped up on my Twitter timeline after I’d sent out…
When the going gets tough, the votes get going
Ever since Pauline Hanson first appeared on the national stage a quarter of a century ago, her detractors and the…
