As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than…

Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but…

It’s that time of the year again to wish readers a very Merry Christmas — whatever circumstances you find yourself…

Thanks to Israeli scientists we now have a psychological profile of a large section of our population and the body politic: A…

Joe Biden is not meant to govern. If he manages, and whatever he manages, that’s all well and good, and…

Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration national security alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst –…

What a mess. You know what I mean, so I’m not going to list all the problems and alleged irregularities…

For the left, Rupert Murdoch truly is an, if not the, Antichrist. He has been so before Trump and is…

First Australia in the first months of the year — and now the western parts of the United States. Australian…

China’s Overseas Key Individual Database leak. Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians…

Be careful what you put on your office walls – or at least where you take your photographs: A small icon…

2020. What a year. As someone has recently remarked on Twitter, I can’t believe we stayed until midnight and cheered…

Many of us move throughout our lives, some frequently. Sometimes we don’t have much choice about the timing or the…

The perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” — Treasurer Josh Frydenberg –…

God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in 2020, so whatever there is deserves wider…

As many have remarked over the years, it is somewhat of a mystery why millions of people from the developing…

It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian ABC journalist, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and…

Firstly, a solution in search of a non-existent problem; not surprisingly a brain fart of that most immaterial of prime…

Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study…

* And so, most likely, are you** ** According to the new nomenclature. I was born in another time and…

President Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation…

We could have done it 31 years ago, after the People’s Liberation Army’s tanks liberated thousands of protesters from their…

Welcome to the political chaos theory –- or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces…

Never mind a boring terrestrial virus – what would happen to our planet if aliens from another planet ever make…

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”. This short and catchy dictum was articulated by Rahm Emanuel, former Obama…