A Swiss-style Brexit would delight Nigel Farage
Someone near the top of government – let us give him the random alias Heremy Junt – is stoking the…
Why does Rishi Sunak sound so desperate?
A year ago Boris Johnson lost his place in his speech to the CBI annual conference. He started blathering on…
Will beefy Botham get bowled out?
Much was made of Ian ‘beefy’ Botham’s ennoblement in 2020. The hero of Headingley was the headline announcement of the 36…
The Swiss-style Brexit delusion
Rotation is the clearest sign of intellectual muddle. When Britain left the EU, some leave supporters thought they could negotiate…
Fifa’s president has exposed the trouble with ‘decoloniality’
I laughed aloud when I heard Gianni Infantino, president of Fifa, identifying himself sanctimoniously with a whole list of disadvantaged…
Dan Andrews: Facebook’s sugar daddy
It’s election week for Victoria, so we can expect some pretty strange stories to pop up out of the political…
Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the trouble with free speech
The Cursed Ratio strikes again. Twitter users have voted 52-48 in favour of Elon Musk allowing the return of Donald Trump to…
Should Iran be allowed at the World Cup?
As England’s football team prepare to face Iran in the first match of their World Cup campaign, the backdrop is…
Mike Pompeo prepares for 2024
The race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination began in earnest on November 9, 2022 — and it could prove far…
NZ hate speech laws: legislation is no antidote to hate
Time has been called on overhauling ‘hate speech laws’ in New Zealand. After sitting in Labour’s manifesto for years, and…
Cashed-up, come-hither politics
Getting the nation moronically into debt to placate Covid panic merchants may be the best thing the Liberals have done…
Land release: the solution to the NSW housing crisis?
Are rising housing prices putting the future of Australian society under threat? Edmund Burke famously said that society was a…
Democrat Dan – copying notes from the US midterms
Two dominant key messages helped the US Democratic Party avoid the predicted ‘red wave’ in that country’s mid-term elections a…
G20 leaders declare global digital health network
Following the conclusion of the G20 summit held in Bali last week, a joint declaration was issued which, among other things,…
What happened to Stephen Fry’s belief in scientific reason?
Here’s my question for Stephen Fry after he said his trans friends had felt ‘deeply upset’ by some of the…
The Tories are taking from the young to pay for the old
To understand the Conservative party’s approach to government, it’s useful to think of there being two Britains. This is something…
Fifa’s president is feeling African, gay and disabled. I’m feeling confused
‘I’m defending football here, and injustice’ was the standout quote, for me, from what has been described as a ‘bizarre…
Ignore the climate doomsters: we should celebrate our 8 billion population
It almost certainly wasn’t Vinice Mabansag, the baby born in the Philippines last Tuesday and picked out by the UN…
Macron’s humiliating climbdown over Aukus
Guess who turned up in Bangkok this week at the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting? The forum, which includes the…
What will be the legacy of the Qatar World Cup?
In the glitzy Fifa museum, in squeaky-clean downtown Zurich, there is a new exhibition which sums up the upbeat, inclusive…
When America makes Orwell look like an amateur
Under today’s gathering dark clouds, a reread of Nineteen Eighty-Four shows how the otherwise prescient George Orwell was wrong to…
In defense of Twitter
Twitter probably isn’t going anywhere. Major platforms don’t just vanish, after all. If we’re not still posting in 2023, then…
FIFA’s ignorant hypocrisy
‘We have been told many, many lessons from some Europeans, from the Western World. I think for what we Europeans…
Australia’s Woke World Cup
As the child of proud ethnic immigrants, some of my best memories come from watching my country’s national football team.…
Dear Victoria
Dear Victoria, This is it… The approaching state election is what the rest of the nation has been anticipating for…
