The laddie’s not for turning
If you walked down a south side Canberra road during the lead-up to the last federal election, as this spectator…
Anti-fragile: humans need risk, not ‘safe spaces’
Last week I had a medical student shadowing me when we were called to the Emergency Department for a critically…
Sydney’s Covid cruise ship
A great deal of effort went into ‘talking up the fear’ yesterday when a cruise ship with 800 positive Covid…
Are you not entertained? Politics is the death of sport
I have a confession to make. Sometimes when I drive home, I listen to a sports talk-back radio program. Recently,…
The SNP’s misinformation campaign on Scottish renewables
SNP MP Stephen Flynn was emphatic when he used a certain statistic in Parliament last month: ‘Scotland’s potential in this…
The Christian nationalism boogeyman
Which of the zillion prophesied crises will engulf America next? At the moment, the most chattered-about is a “second civil…
Just how low can our political class sink?
Observe, this dark weekend, a contrast. On Whitehall, the centre of British government, the Royal Family and leaders of our…
Meet the British soldiers fighting in Ukraine
At his base near the frontlines outside of Kherson, an ex-British soldier named JK shows me a video of what…
Don’t write off the Russian air force
The Russian air force’s failure to establish air superiority over Ukraine – and the consequent inability of its fighter and bomber aircraft…
The rise of the celebrity oversharer
Bella Hadid ate burritos today, in case anyone was wondering. Kourtney Kardashian had a smoothie and Paris Hilton had a…
Is Ratnam living on another planet?
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the following words from Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam,…
The inversion of politics is just a scratch beneath the surface
Modern politics has been condensed – within 280 characters to be exact – with much of the political tide swayed…
Twenty years hard Labor
On November 22, Daniel Andrews will mark exactly twenty years as a member of the Victorian Parliament. Just four days…
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The Dummy
Not since Howard Carter risked the curse of the Pharaohs to plunder the pyramids a hundred years ago this month…
Business/Robbery, etc.
The King who favours investment in fossil fuels
The NDIS and irresponsible largesse
Providers and others are abusing this critical but costly service
Poor ol’ Jim
An October Budget? What was he thinking?
Desperate fishwives
Every Coalition political adviser needs to be fired
Covid karma’s gonna get ya
Is demonising the unvaccinated a health hazard?
Covid accountability must come before any ‘amnesty’
No forgiveness, sorry. Not now, not ever.
Beware the land tax swap
Homeowners will be the big losers
China’s brazen cops
Xi’s goons set up shop in the West
Jacinda Ardern – presiding over Marxist propaganda and racial bullying
New Zealand is hurtling towards a dystopian future
A lustre that is blinding
Does Milly Alcock find her characters inside herself or does she sketch them from outside? ‘It’s both,’ she says. ‘You…
