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…

Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron” in the aftermath of the Black Death pandemic of 1348, which carried away somewhere around…

What has the coronavirus virus wrought? In some ways it is a perfect weapon: it doesn’t kill that many people…

This afternoon, on the way back from the gym, I popped into my local Coles to get some fruit and…

Not the end, but perhaps the beginning of the end: the United States and the Taliban have signed a preliminary…

In the magical socialist world of Bernie Sanders, everything is free – which means that someone else is paying for…

The entry and the rapid rise of Mike Bloomberg in the Democratic primaries is something to behold. The Democrats at…

The Woke Health Organisation – sorry, the World Health Organisation – continues to provide non-stop entertainment as the Coronavirus spreads.…

It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism…

Interesting musings from the economist Maarten Boudry on the topic of inequality, in a post titled “Is extreme wealth a…

An important thing to remember about large parts of the government bureaucracy and the not-for-profit/community sector is that they are…

Where the bloody hell are you? Not in Australia apparently. While no official figures are available yet, anecdotal evidence from…

You’ve probably seen reports in the past 24 hours on the Pew Research Center findings on attitudes towards the United States around…

People like me with families and friends overseas are getting concerned and panicky messages to check if we’re safe in…

According to my calculations and estimates, the number of individuals around Australia whose arson has contributed to the current bushfire…

The Dow Jones is up, US unemployment is down, wages are rising, manufacturing jobs are returning. And now this: A recent…

Bah-humbug! Sorry people to snow on your parade (or should it be “sorry, snowflakes to rain on your parade”) but…

Scott Morrison has cut short his Hawaiian holiday to inhale some Sydney air, which is pretty much the only thing…

Barack Obama at a private function in Singapore recently: Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but…

Overlooked in all the bushfire brouhaha of last week was a telling exchange between a Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon (the…

With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results,…

So we have the long-anticipated reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but…

The ABC has recently released its new editorial guidance note on “Hate Speech, Terrorism and Mass Killing”. While the document is rich…

How old are you? I’m greenhouse old: I remember when it was all called the “greenhouse effect”, seemingly a lifetime…