Among Dubai’s weary migrant workers
The E100 bus is not somewhere you will find an Emirati. Departing about every thirty minutes from 4 a.m. onward…
Jacinda Ardern resigns: the beginning of the end for Labour?
‘I don’t have enough in the tank,’ complained 42-year-old Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand. ‘For me, it’s time,’…
The weirdest stuff you can get at the Twitter auction
Elon Musk’s Twitter is holding a massive auction to sell its surplus office assets — and it is quite an…
Cardinal virtues
George Pell is dead. Although he was 81, no one would have predicted it. The Cardinal who had had to…
Dis-con notes
Labor’s Voice – going down together Appraising Peter Dutton’s performance here a fortnight ago (Return to the Fray, 7/01/23), I…
Germany has no excuse for not sending tanks to Ukraine
When a man is in a hole, he is best advised to stop digging. When a German chancellor is in…
Robert Kennedy Jnr launches landmark antitrust lawsuit
Anthony Fauci critic, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, has launched a landmark lawsuit challenging mainstream media for its alleged blanket censorship of Covid content. The…
Can I now free the nipple on Instagram and Facebook?
It’s a funny old world. Cockburn noticed today that Facebook and Instagram have been told to overhaul their longstanding ban…
UK blocks Scotland’s controversial self-ID Bill. Will Queensland follow?
Something incredible happened this week. In a historic move, the UK government has blocked Scotland’s controversial self-ID Bill (the Gender Recognition…
Albanese: ‘shadow politics’ and the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty
The old adage, ‘what you don’t know can’t hurt you’ does not apply to politics. What political leaders do in…
PMQs gets worse every week
Gruesome rhetoric at PMQs. The horror began with Sir Keir Starmer revealing that he can tell the time. ‘It’s three…
So much for Biden’s ‘return to normalcy’
It was supposed to be so different. Sturdy old Scranton Joe Biden at the helm. Honesty, decency, unity. What a…
Is it time to replace Scotland’s sporting anthem?
‘Flower of Scotland’ is the unofficial national anthem north of the border but soon enough we may never hear its…
Is the Trussite Tory ‘growth group’ a threat to Rishi Sunak?
Tory MPs gathered last night for the first meeting of a new growth caucus. Under the working title ‘Conservative Growth…
Is Putin about to gamble on a second mobilisation wave?
Is Vladimir Putin finally about to announce a second mobilisation wave? Ukraine has been warning for weeks that up to half-a-million…
A land of progress
As Australia Day comes around, battle lines are again being drawn by self-described ‘progressives’ who refuse to see anything to…
Brown study
You may not have realised it, but Australia is now in the grip of a new and deadly virus. It…
Aussie life
If the Albanese regime is handing out ‘voices’ this year, it might start by giving one to the silent majority…
