ABC can’t cop Twitter criticism
It has been barely a few weeks since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, but the ABC’s sheltered class are already weighing…
Will the pill pushers ever pay for their misdeeds?
More than two decades into America’s catastrophic opioid epidemic, the demographics of this unprecedented tragedy are clear. By far, the…
Jumpy conservative media are playing into Trump’s hands
The walls are closing in on Donald Trump. Again. But this time it’s different. Again. In the wake of the…
Rewire the Nation or go nuclear?
The Albanese government’s promise to reduce average household power bills by $275 is disappearing along with its mandate for a…
Not ‘green’ at all
‘Green’ policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile United Nations scheme…
WA: democratic freedoms for religious schools under attack
On August 16, Western Australia’s Attorney General John Quigley tabled in Parliament the Law Reform Commission’s report into the Review…
Rebel Wilson and the problem with surrogacy
When the Australian actor Rebel Wilson announced the birth of her daughter Royce Lillian, she added the small detail that…
This is war: Renewables vs the West
The future of renewable energy is laid out before us, bound by inevitable consequences and engineering restraints. It is a…
We must protect freedom to protest, even for those we despise
One of the trickiest challenges of being in politics is defending the rights of those we disagree with vehemently. That dilemma has…
Is this the beginning of the end for Jacinda Ardern?
Many people envisage Jacinda Ardern’s 2017 electoral victory as a romp, a 1997 Tony Blair-esque sea change of optimism. In…
Is Nixon the most misunderstood president in history?
Has the reputation of any American statesman been more effectively trashed than that of Richard Milhous Nixon? Donald Trump’s, perhaps…
The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics
Mathematicians in British universities are now being asked to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum. This autumn, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher…
A society without boundaries is madness
Until we know the shape of something, we cannot begin to understand what it might be or what it might…
Why Remembrance is a privilege as much as a duty
It was exceptionally cold, that strange Armistice day. I was used to spending the two minutes silence squinting into the…
Kevin McCarthy’s Faustian bargain
If the returns from Tuesday are any indication, most American voters are breathing a sigh of relief. Thanks to split-ticketing,…
The laddie’s not for turning
If you walked down a south side Canberra road during the lead-up to the last federal election, as this spectator…
Anti-fragile: humans need risk, not ‘safe spaces’
Last week I had a medical student shadowing me when we were called to the Emergency Department for a critically…
Sydney’s Covid cruise ship
A great deal of effort went into ‘talking up the fear’ yesterday when a cruise ship with 800 positive Covid…
Are you not entertained? Politics is the death of sport
I have a confession to make. Sometimes when I drive home, I listen to a sports talk-back radio program. Recently,…
The SNP’s misinformation campaign on Scottish renewables
SNP MP Stephen Flynn was emphatic when he used a certain statistic in Parliament last month: ‘Scotland’s potential in this…
The Christian nationalism boogeyman
Which of the zillion prophesied crises will engulf America next? At the moment, the most chattered-about is a “second civil…
Just how low can our political class sink?
Observe, this dark weekend, a contrast. On Whitehall, the centre of British government, the Royal Family and leaders of our…
Meet the British soldiers fighting in Ukraine
At his base near the frontlines outside of Kherson, an ex-British soldier named JK shows me a video of what…
Don’t write off the Russian air force
The Russian air force’s failure to establish air superiority over Ukraine – and the consequent inability of its fighter and bomber aircraft…
The rise of the celebrity oversharer
Bella Hadid ate burritos today, in case anyone was wondering. Kourtney Kardashian had a smoothie and Paris Hilton had a…
