Fifa’s president is feeling African, gay and disabled. I’m feeling confused
‘I’m defending football here, and injustice’ was the standout quote, for me, from what has been described as a ‘bizarre…
Ignore the climate doomsters: we should celebrate our 8 billion population
It almost certainly wasn’t Vinice Mabansag, the baby born in the Philippines last Tuesday and picked out by the UN…
Macron’s humiliating climbdown over Aukus
Guess who turned up in Bangkok this week at the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting? The forum, which includes the…
What will be the legacy of the Qatar World Cup?
In the glitzy Fifa museum, in squeaky-clean downtown Zurich, there is a new exhibition which sums up the upbeat, inclusive…
When America makes Orwell look like an amateur
Under today’s gathering dark clouds, a reread of Nineteen Eighty-Four shows how the otherwise prescient George Orwell was wrong to…
In defense of Twitter
Twitter probably isn’t going anywhere. Major platforms don’t just vanish, after all. If we’re not still posting in 2023, then…
FIFA’s ignorant hypocrisy
‘We have been told many, many lessons from some Europeans, from the Western World. I think for what we Europeans…
Australia’s Woke World Cup
As the child of proud ethnic immigrants, some of my best memories come from watching my country’s national football team.…
Dear Victoria
Dear Victoria, This is it… The approaching state election is what the rest of the nation has been anticipating for…
Climate fools are a corporate pandemic
Really, this should be a weekly column, but I fear writing about fools that often might do my head in.…
Left-wing Twitter goes full Apocalypse Now
In the film Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard comes upon a remote outpost defending a bridge. Hoping to confer…
Why Biden has given MBS immunity over the Khashoggi killing
For US President Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia is the problem that never goes away. First came his decision to refrain from slapping…
Why is Eventbrite censoring feminists?
I could not have been more delighted when the group Women’s Place UK (WPUK) asked me to chair an online…
Why Macron won’t criticise the Qatar World Cup
France has adopted a different approach to the World Cup in Qatar than most of its European rivals. While the…
Is Donald Trump the Jeb Bush of 2024?
Donald Trump has been running for president for at least a decade. His campaign did not start on June 16,…
A very demoralizing trip to Barnes & Noble
America is enduring a mental health crisis, and you need go no farther than your local Barnes & Noble bookstore…
Cop27: turning climate into an economic weapon
Before our leaders get carried away with the Cairo Climate Conference 2022 and start imposing economic losses on those (me…
Conversion therapy legislation: trick or treat?
‘One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I don’t know.’ I am…
Unreasonable
In the 1980s movie Rain Man, the autistic Dustin Hoffman reliably informed Tom Cruise that Qantas was the safest airline…
Australian notes
Having flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 27) in Egypt, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has been…
