(Don’t) vote like a woman
In Vote Like a Woman, a substack article posted prior to the American midterms, Naomi Wolf urged female voters to reward…
Kari Lake isn’t about to go away
Typically, when media outlets project election winners, the loser comes out soon afterward to officially concede the race. Yet when…
Meet the Navajo who wants Native Americans to vote Republican
How well Republicans fared this time around with Native American voters is hazy. Brookings reports that Native Americans “remained solidly Democratic in…
Local government or bureaucratic symbolism?
One of the great things about our federal system is that local governments ensure local issues are dealt with by…
(Still) forgetting Ken Elliott
And still, he remains forgotten. Dr Ken Elliott, a Perth missionary doctor held captive by ‘Emirate of the Sahara’, a…
After Biden beat Obama
Now that Donald Trump has declared his candidacy for the US presidency in the 2024 election, it is relevant to…
‘Let us save lives again’ say vaccine-free healthcare workers
Healthcare workers who were forced to leave their employment when they declined Covid vaccinations say it’s time to drop the…
In defence of the One Love armband
Wales’ football manager Rob Page was clear about why his team’s captain Gareth Bale would wear the ‘One Love’ armband…
Fifa 1 – England 0
England have backed down in the ludicrous standoff with Fifa over the plan for captain Harry Kane to wear a…
A Swiss-style Brexit would delight Nigel Farage
Someone near the top of government – let us give him the random alias Heremy Junt – is stoking the…
Why does Rishi Sunak sound so desperate?
A year ago Boris Johnson lost his place in his speech to the CBI annual conference. He started blathering on…
Will beefy Botham get bowled out?
Much was made of Ian ‘beefy’ Botham’s ennoblement in 2020. The hero of Headingley was the headline announcement of the 36…
The Swiss-style Brexit delusion
Rotation is the clearest sign of intellectual muddle. When Britain left the EU, some leave supporters thought they could negotiate…
Fifa’s president has exposed the trouble with ‘decoloniality’
I laughed aloud when I heard Gianni Infantino, president of Fifa, identifying himself sanctimoniously with a whole list of disadvantaged…
Dan Andrews: Facebook’s sugar daddy
It’s election week for Victoria, so we can expect some pretty strange stories to pop up out of the political…
Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the trouble with free speech
The Cursed Ratio strikes again. Twitter users have voted 52-48 in favour of Elon Musk allowing the return of Donald Trump to…
Should Iran be allowed at the World Cup?
As England’s football team prepare to face Iran in the first match of their World Cup campaign, the backdrop is…
Mike Pompeo prepares for 2024
The race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination began in earnest on November 9, 2022 — and it could prove far…
NZ hate speech laws: legislation is no antidote to hate
Time has been called on overhauling ‘hate speech laws’ in New Zealand. After sitting in Labour’s manifesto for years, and…
Cashed-up, come-hither politics
Getting the nation moronically into debt to placate Covid panic merchants may be the best thing the Liberals have done…
Land release: the solution to the NSW housing crisis?
Are rising housing prices putting the future of Australian society under threat? Edmund Burke famously said that society was a…
Democrat Dan – copying notes from the US midterms
Two dominant key messages helped the US Democratic Party avoid the predicted ‘red wave’ in that country’s mid-term elections a…
G20 leaders declare global digital health network
Following the conclusion of the G20 summit held in Bali last week, a joint declaration was issued which, among other things,…
What happened to Stephen Fry’s belief in scientific reason?
Here’s my question for Stephen Fry after he said his trans friends had felt ‘deeply upset’ by some of the…
The Tories are taking from the young to pay for the old
To understand the Conservative party’s approach to government, it’s useful to think of there being two Britains. This is something…
