Feel-gooders take a knee, do-gooders take action
Making a statement versus making a difference
Herding sheeple onto the vaccine treadmill
When it comes to Covid, the numbers never seem to add up
Four vaccine vexes
1 Vaccines are 95 per cent efficacious. Yeah, right. And double positives never make a negative. Figure 1 gives the…
The unresolved debate on Covid vaccines
In an article last month, I noted the puzzling UK official data that confirmed the efficacy of vaccines in reducing hospitalisations and deaths but with infections for 40-49 year…
At the fork in the road, the High Court took the low road
The Ridd decision is comic farce
Questioning Covid
We need answers
Are you sure about that vaccine?
Figures don’t lie, my critics insist. Very well, let’s look at some figures. I make three arguments here. First, vaccines are…
Covid ‘science’, lockdowns and flat-earthers
The ‘experts’ have destroyed their own credibility
The empty moral posturing of attacks on vaccine hesitants
Covid has turned our civilised principles upside down
Why can’t Canberra be more like Florida?
On Monday 4 October, after 245 days, Melbourne claimed the decidedly unwelcome record of the longest locked-down city in the world. On…
Ten surreal days in September
Scott Morrison is completely out of touch with his own country
Voldermectin
The drug that must not be named
Coronavirus has become endemic, making Australia’s policy settings obsolete
A major study from the National Bureau of Economic Research in June, based on all-causes mortality data from 44 countries and all US…
White privilege as the face of modern Labor
Tu Le should have been picked, not KK
The global media calls out Australia’s repressive Covid order
For students of democracy and foreign policy, Australia has been experiencing interesting times in the last two years. All countries devote enormous effort and considerable resources to…
Deer in the headlights, frogs in boiling water
Covid is stripping us of our freedoms. Who will stop it?
Lockdowns: an alibi for government to shun scrutiny of neglect of public health preparedness
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1…
Saigon… Kabul… Taiwan?
America’s reputation is falling faster than the bodies dropping from the under-carriages
The latest lessons in Covid management from Israel
Will no one rid us of our Covid-dementors? Gladys Berejiklian says restrictions could remain in place after 80 per cent full vaccination. Yet…
Covid in the age of unreason
Those who voted down Christensen may well come to regret it
There’s ‘literally a war’ – but in Kabul, not Sydney
At her daily press briefing on Saturday, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said: ‘This is literally a war, and…
Vaccination certificates: an idea whose time must never come
Chris Richardson of Deloitte Access Economics wrote in the Australian Financial Review on 10 August: ‘Delta is so infectious that the vaccination rates we…
All deaths are equal, but some are more equal than others – part two
The conclusion to a two-piece article. About 10.1mn people are estimated to have died from all causes in India in 2020, and…
All deaths are equal, but some are more equal than others
Part one of a two-piece article. From the start, those sceptical of lockdowns for managing the coronavirus pandemic have offered three complementary…
The right to cheat
How ‘progressives’ don’t hesitate to bend the rules
