Trump versus the party
When The Simpsons’s evil billionaire C. Montgomery Burns heads for a checkup, the doctor informs him he has virtually every disease…
ESG is a surprise boon for fossil fuel giants
ESG, or environmental, social and corporate governance, has taken the financial world by storm. It first hit the scene in…
When giants fall: the collapse of wind energy
If the Statue of Liberty were to keel over this morning, odds are someone would notice. There’d be chunks of…
Our bias toward ‘Yes’
In a world where positivity is encouraged, it is only natural to have a bias towards the word ‘Yes’. ‘Yes’…
Artificial intelligence: the next extinction?
With technology developing ever faster, a new threat is looming in the form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) potentially interacting adversely…
Has world war three already begun?
‘War, Boom, Bust’ is often heard in the context of economic cycles in history. A war is needed to get…
Dangerous detail: how the Voice will select its 24 members
Australians have been told that if we want to understand the Voice proposal we should read the 272-page Final Report…
In defence of private jets
Barbara Amiel was right that one private jet isn’t enough. One jet is always in the wrong place, or undergoing maintenance,…
Could the Hollywood strikes be the final straw for Meghan and Harry?
#UNSUSSEXFUL is trending on Twitter, referring to what Meghan and Harry have reportedly labeled a bout of “bad luck.” A…
I dislike David Cameron, but he was right on gay marriage
The other day, I found myself at a large event in a posh garden where David Cameron was present. Being…
‘Mid’: the very-online’s favorite insult
Have you heard “mid?” The very-online no longer call something “bad” or “dumb” or “crap” or “a shit-festooned barnacle attached…
Children need to fight back against political indoctrination
There’s something troubling happening in our schools. In art class, my children have been instructed to make Black Lives Matter…
It’s not for Sunak to save students from themselves
Rishi Sunak is not wrong to write, as he does in the Telegraph today, that too many young people are…
Crimea’s Kerch bridge targeted in second attack
The Kerch bridge, Russia’s only road link to Crimea, has been targeted once again in what seems to have been a…
The Dispirit of Australia
In the schmalzy Qantas jingle ‘I Still Call Australia Home’, composer Peter Allen says he’s been to cities that never…
Will the French riots spawn a new generation of jihadists?
Apart from the 96 arrests and 255 burned cars, Bastille Day passed off without a hitch in France. A bullish…
YouTube and the final state of total Kippleization
When I look back over my life, a decade or two from now, when I finally succumb to the strontium…
Giorgia Meloni and the true migration hypocrites
Cerberus, the record-breaking heatwave that has struck the Mediterranean, will be followed next week by another one called Charon – after…
NATO’s broomstick army
In the good old days when you typed into Google, French military victories and pressed the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button, the response…
Presumption of evil not innocence
How can it be that a man of impeccable character in his late 70s is convicted of 28 nasty sexual…
Let them eat Macarons
Fireworks were banned on Bastille Day. Justice has been updated by the French Senate’s new bill which has approved Big…
Gambling with Australian lives
At the beginning of the Covid vaccination rollout in Australia on 21 February 2021, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared…
Inside the chaos over Huw Edwards at the BBC
It’s been a truly surreal, disturbing and darkly comic week at the BBC. Much remains obscured, but one thing is…
The BMA shouldn’t look down on cleaners
During the lockdown, there was a cohort of workers who toiled through the night in what was described as a ‘fairly thankless…
Lithuania’s support for Ukraine remains undimmed
This week, the world’s eyes were on the Lithuanian capital Vilnius as it welcomed global leaders for Nato’s 74th summit.…
