Is the Indian Covid variant more dangerous that other strains?
Does the Indian variant of Sars-CoV-2, B1.617.2, have the capacity to escape vaccines? Is it really more transmissible than the…
Prince Harry: America’s free speech protection is ‘bonkers’
Much has been written here in the UK about Prince Harry’s Thursday appearance on Hollywood actor Dax Shepard’s ‘Armchair Expert’ podcast.…
Inside Israel’s Iron Dome
A dramatic photo from the Gaza strip taken in the early hours of Friday morning looks like something out of a…
The infuriating truth about Harry and Meghan’s activism
‘Why do you lot hate Harry and Meghan so much?’ It’s a question the formerly royal couple’s supporters often ask…
Labour are deluding themselves about Boris’s ‘vaccine bounce’
That vast battalion of pinko pundits who confidently expected Boris Johnson to get a drubbing in last week’s elections has…
Will the DUP’s Edwin Poots win his war on the Northern Ireland protocol?
What to make of the triumph of Edwin Poots, the new leader of the Democratic Unionist party, who defeated the…
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Latham’s law
Renewables & China’s takeover of our electricity grid As China expands its influence globally under the Belt and Road program,…
Australian notes
Big government bounces back Despite its spending spree in the Budget, the federal government would do well to remember that…
How to beat the drums of war
We have the wherewithal to defeat the Chinese threat
Sic ’em, Triggs!
Let’s sool the Human Rights Commissions onto the Woke
Business/Robbery, etc.
How to combat corporate activism
The middle-class childhood mafia is fleecing us again
There is scant evidence the subsidies do what is claimed
The next Vietnam
Gentlemen, start your helicopter engines...
Waiting it out behind the Covid Curtain
WHO’s to blame for the disaster in India?
You’re gonna make us lonesome when you go
It’s Dylan’s 80th birthday
Ulysses
If you wanted a college at the University of Melbourne that had no hint of imitation Oxbridge you would turn…
The Truth About China by Bill Birtles
As news came through of China’s suspension of high-level trade dialogue with Australia, I read The Truth About China by…
Aussie Life
A recent jaunt through the NSW South Coast town of Bermagui sparked a friendly family rivalry over whose forebears had…
Aussie Language
There is an organisation called ‘Dying with Dignity’. In their most recent newsletter they say, ‘The NSW Parliament looks set…
Xi’s man in the White House?
Far worse than appeasement
Joshua tree
Travelling across the Mojave desert in the mid-1800s in search of the Promised Land, a group of Mormons were mesmerised…
Dear Mary
Q. I’ve recently been approached by a very good friend who — with genuinely admirable candour and tact — pointed…
Fork in the road
You cannot have cars and dining tables in the same dreamscape: it doesn’t work, unless you think carbon monoxide is…
Its and it’s
An item on the BBC news site didn’t mean what it said: ‘The latest move is part of a wider…
