Infectious diseases remain a threat
Have we learnt anything from our past experience of infectious disease? For well over a century, pandemics and epidemics produced…
Spitting out the truth
The problems on Darwin’s buses are not new and the Transport Workers Union has long campaigned for better protection for…
Biden’s wasted jaunt down in Florida
“Charlie is running against Donald Trump incarnate,” President Joe Biden strangely remarked of Democrat Charlie Crist, who is running against…
JK Rowling, not Daniel Radcliffe, is the heroine of the gender debate
Some people accuse millennials of being ungrateful and entitled. Sadly, many of our celebrities do little to disabuse the public…
Climate injustice: a personal account from a Kiwi farmer
New Zealand sheep farmers have been singled out to bear the brunt of our country’s efforts to stop the planet…
PMQs: Starmer’s astonishing Nigel Farage imitation
The small boats have landed. PMQs was dominated by the migration issue and the flotillas of dinghies struggling across the…
Why windfall taxes come at a great cost
There is no such thing as free money. This was learned the hard way last month, when investors made clear…
Sunak and Starmer clash over ‘broken’ asylum system
Short questions are always best at PMQs – and Keir Starmer’s first one was very short indeed. He asked Rishi…
Why is Rishi Sunak going to COP?
Whoever Rishi Sunak is taking his advice from, evidently it isn’t me. Last Friday I wrote here supporting his decision…
The police service is rotten to the core
A report published today by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services for England and Wales should come as…
Rishi Sunak’s first U-turn as PM
Just over a week into Rishi Sunak’s premiership and the new prime minister has performed his first government U-turn. After…
It looks like Bibi is back from the dead
Could it really be over? As Israeli political reporters stand before their cameras or hunch over their keyboards, their brains…
The Zulu’s new king brings peace, for a moment
A new king of the Zulu was crowned at the weekend. Thousands in South Africa went to Durban to watch…
Jacinda: just go!
The Ardern regime in New Zealand has been an embarrassment to the West. During her short tenure as Prime Minister,…
Saving San Francisco
San Francisco mayor London Breed held a press conference on October 5 concerning her city’s most deadly problem: the open…
The barbarism of Canada’s euthanasia regime
“After a recent experience caring for a patient receiving medical assistance in dying, I felt distressed and uncomfortable. How should…
Why are Democrats more focused on rape and incest than inflation?
Amid 40-year-high inflation, dwindling investment portfolios, and 20-year high mortgage rates, the Democratic Party appears most concerned with protecting the…
A tertiary tragedy
Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility
Desperate Dan tries ‘bread and a $15m circus’
If Netball Australia had any decency, they would reject Dan Andrews $15 million sponsorship offer. The Victoria Premier promised to…
Let’s talk Covid apologies … and reparations
If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon. Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that…
Decline and Fall: Biden embraces childhood trans rights
There was a time not so long ago when educated men and women read Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and…
Jack the Insider is out of bounds
For the past two and a half years, Jack the Insider (Peter Hoysted), through his columns in the Australian, has waged…
Have we finally reached Peak Pride?
Have we reached Peak Pride? As a gay man, I suppose I should feel gratified by the fervor with which…
We should be better than Paul Pelosi conspiracy theories
Always give it three days. This is a golden rule of journalism that requires reporters and commentators to wait when…
America’s military isn’t ready for a war with China
China’s 20th Party Congress concluded on October 23, and President Xi Jinping secured a norm-breaking third term as leader of…
