The out-going Trump administration finally woke up to a nasty little rort that the Australian government was planning on running…

Day 1 of the Biden Presidency saw the reversal of several of the Trump administration’s environmental policies, including tighter vehicle emissions standards, a moratorium on oil and natural…

The only thing politicians fear is the media. If they own the media, they have nothing to fear.  This is…

How are we to reconcile the fact that white supremacists are increasingly ethnically diverse? This oxymoronic conundrum has recently been…

Oh 2021, what hopes we had for you.  When the clock chimed midnight on New Year’s Eve, a national sigh…

The final days of the 45th United States president’s time in office saw a push from a number of organs of…

Following reports that 30 people died in Norway after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, the government, its health officers and Pfizer…

Vladimir Lenin once said that there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. The events two…

Former senator, strategist and Spectator Australia and Australian’s contributor Stephen Loosley wrote yesterday of what he called “conspiracy-saturated claims” about…

In 2005 American psychologist Philip E Tetlock published a book Expert Political Judgement in which he analysed 82,000 expert political…

‘Social distancing’ was the motto of 2020. However, with around 90 per cent of Australia’s population crammed into 0.22 per…

I have attempted on a number of occasions to have a conversation with my family about Donald Trump’s presidency with…

Rarely do people seek confrontation. In fact, most people look for ways to avoid it. The opportunity for confrontation surrounds…

Aficionados of the high arts will remember the Matt Damon from the classic Team America, World Police, a moronic member…

Every once in a while, if you’re even a bit like me, you see something on social media that you feel is…

The problem is not listening to experts. The problem is having experts who pay no price for their advice being…

As Novak Djokovic today bewails the misery of the multi-millionaire whose minders fail to read the small print, The Age…

One of the truly remarkable developments over the past half-century is the reversal and the relative flows of electoral funding going to parties…

Victoria’s state budget cash splash is a boon for the state’s arts industries and a guarantee that they will continue…

Hmmm. What can be said? Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in July 2020: Bored is better than intensive care. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews…

The covid wars continue unabated, with border closures mid-flight and arguments about whether a cluster is the same as a hotspot?…

If you need reminding of the depths to which the Liberal Party has fallen — particularly in the lobbyists’ playground…

On December 30, the Australian’s business section reported that China is cutting Australian wheat imports. Meanwhile, a front-page story said that in…

“There is no greater glory than to die for love” cries Florentino Ariza in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, Love in the Time of Cholera.…