Will Paris’s ban stop e-scooters killing people?
Rental e-scooters have been banned from Paris since Friday after residents of the French capital were asked to decide their…
The forgotten end of the second world war
Two weeks ago, VJ day (Victory over Japan day) celebrated the end of the Pacific War. On 15 August 1945…
The Pope is wrong about Russian imperial greatness
Popes may make claims to infallibility but they certainly make mistakes, and Pope Francis is likely to get a dressing…
How Sinn Fein captured Northern Ireland’s police force
Policing any part of the United Kingdom is a difficult enough task these days. Policing the part of it where…
Might a Tory defeat in 2024 be something to celebrate?
When a party’s own natural supporters decide they have good reason to turn against it then the writing is normally…
Australians must vote No
‘I don’t think it’s a good idea and if it were put up in a referendum it would go down…
Free speech fights back
Who will save us from Labor’s Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill?
Central banks are fake climate heroes
Changing weather patterns and ‘stranded assets’ don’t trigger systemic financial crises
Everybody’s friend
It was cheering in its way to hear, from the lips of that shrewd urbane man Tony Burke, that 246…
Aussie life
Six years ago the ABC posted an article online about William Crowther, a prominent 19th-century Tasmanian politician, a statue of…
Language
A national survey has found 64 per cent of Jewish students say they’ve experienced anti-Semitism at university. At Sydney University…
Taxing times
No. 10 quickly asserted that the meltdown at National Air Traffic Services was a technical issue rather than a cyber…
It shouldn’t be a crime to sniff a goshawk
I notice that the naturalist Chris Packham has been reported to the police for the ‘crime’ of sniffing a goshawk.…
Risk management
When prime ministers sense the end is near, they tend to follow a similar pattern. They change senior civil servants…
