Bad policy, bad politics
Sanctions are morally dubious and a poor substitute for good foreign policy
The best time to break out of strategic encirclement
Great power realpolitik often trumps small state sovereignty
Luvvies guide to defining a woman
Trans rights do not trump women’s identity and safety
Game of empires
Alternative framings of the Ukraine war
The Covid horoscope
Why did so many public health experts fall for obviously flawed predictions?
Understanding India
How one of our most important allies is responding to Ukraine - and why
Old-fashioned realism could have avoided the Ukrainian crisis
The truth is the West lied to Gorbachev
Woke West gets a wake-up call
Diversity, inclusion and equity? DIE is an apt acronym
Trudeau’s toxic tantrum tyranny
The enemies of the West revel in her decline
Canada’s truckers won’t truck it anymore
Dissent is a defining attribute of democracy, not a threat to it
To my critics I say, J’Avoue…!
J’Avoue…! Not to compare myself to Emile Zola or the impact of my writings to his famous open letter J’Accuse…! in 1898 on…
Hawke-eye rules freedom ‘out’
Djokovic’s expulsion was unscientific and an abuse of state power
Israel confounds the promise of vaccines as the way out of Covid
Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it…
Project fear
The Fourth Estate has gone missing in action on Covid
GOAT becomes scapegoat
From zero-Covid to zero-Djokovic
Graphs that give lie to the narrative
Numbers may not lie, but graphs can give the lie to the lockdown and vaccination narratives that have held the…
Rules are rules
The slogan of anti-democratic autocrats
Covid notes
The worldwide spread of Omicron Indulge me for a moment and imagine the following scenario. A new Covid-19 variant originates…
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…
