Andrew L. Urban

Derryn Hinch’s public sex offenders register would be outrageous

29 November 2018 11:57 am

In the wake of last weekend’s Victorian State election, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (probably with four shiny Upper House seats)…

Love is not love if you don’t toe the rainbow-coloured line

17 November 2018 6:13 pm

Love is not love, obviously, when a small activist minority of gay bullies intimidate a husband and wife publishing team…

No guilt, no apology

17 November 2018 9:00 am

Convicted of murder, Derek Bromley can teach us all a lesson about saying sorry when we are not guilty. And…

What makes the Mullahs mad (let alone so many of their flock)?

16 November 2018 6:47 am

It seems that Islam is causing massive waves of mental illness around the world. If we collate the responses to…

Deport the terrorists – and their families too

12 November 2018 4:12 pm

If our existing laws can not protect us from harm, we must make new ones that can. Terrorists, even those…

Labor’s quagmire of incompetence

10 November 2018 9:00 am

A standard political tactic (of all sides) is to paint your opponents as inhumane or wreckers and wilful destroyers of…

Sorry, Australia, but Joko says “no”

31 October 2018 4:02 pm

Australia does not have the permission of Indonesia’s President to relocate our Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem.…

Turnbull’s back – but his Labor supporters are gone

23 October 2018 12:06 pm

It would not be surprising if, in the aftermath of the Wentworth by-election, Coalition members mispronounced the name of the…

Lunch with Leo and Sir Francis

20 October 2018 9:00 am

I was having a chat with renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and brilliant British empiricist and champion of the scientific…

Do we want a nation run like a union – or a booming business?

9 October 2018 7:49 am

The CEO of USA Inc, Donald Trump, has concluded the win-win-win US-Mexico-Canada trade deal; total US unemployment has dropped to…

How Ford denied Kavanaugh a defence

4 October 2018 8:56 pm

It isn’t that Dr Catherine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee alleging attempted rape by Judge…

The media vs the people

29 September 2018 9:00 am

‘The separation of powers means that the legal system is answerable to no one,’ I said, speaking at the Sydney…

Malcolm, you promised… so go

20 August 2018 2:36 pm

Malcolm Turnbull’s backing off trying to bully his party into a NEGative plan has given the Liberals a golden opportunity…

Dumb and dumber

2 August 2018 12:42 pm

The venerable and much respected American columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer famously noted that to understand US politics you have…

A quick quiz you can’t win

12 July 2018 6:21 pm

Who are these people? Without giving the quiz game away, here are some characteristics of people who belong to a…

Gun lore

10 July 2018 5:57 pm

I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…

American mania

24 June 2018 2:55 am

America’s current crisis over illegal immigration, family separations and border policies generally, have highlighted and exacerbated the nature of America’s…

Memo Julie Bishop: get us out of the UNHCR

21 June 2018 7:29 am

Political leadership: leading the way on values with action. Doing what is right. Explaining and defending it clearly. Examples: this…

Donald Trump and the fury of the impotent

16 June 2018 10:19 am

The public moral disintegration and demeaning of an entire cohort of people reached its zenith with the globally televised meltdown…

Nukes 101 with Kim Jong-un

11 June 2018 3:35 pm

Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to…

The great undiagnosed dysrationalia epidemic

8 June 2018 12:54 pm

I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it…

The Parisites

5 May 2018 9:00 am

Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi…

Australia, a failing state

28 April 2018 9:00 am

According to the UN’s definition, ‘failed states’ are political entities that demonstrate little or no ability to provide their citizens…

Assad did it, not Putin

15 April 2018 7:28 pm

Last week’s chemical attack on dozens of his citizens – including children – has elicited no outrage from President Bashir…

South Africa deaths reveal the real racists

13 April 2018 10:09 am

The critics of plans to offer asylum to white South African farmers are morally bankrupt and stupid to boot. Morally…