Logic is still dead in Dom’s domain
Throughout the Covid-era there has been a significant lack of logic in decisions made and restrictions imposed. Double standards have…
Mullumbimby saves itself while SES continue with vaccine mandates
‘It’s frustrating to think we are forgotten…’ said a member of the Mullumbimby community, after they were left without government help…
Brisbane mud army 2.0 – a lesson in liberalism
It was 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon and the humidity was stifling – even for Brisbane. ‘Get some selfies for your…
Is the government in denial about the looming economic crisis?
The priority for the UK and other rich democracies is to protect the people of Ukraine from the depredations of…
Democrats double down on wasteful foreign aid
The latest version of the Democrats’ $1.5 trillion spending bill being pushed through Congress includes funding for questionable foreign projects,…
Why would the Saudis bail out Biden?
Is Saudi Arabia shunning Washington? Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been refusing to phone Joe Biden, who wants the kingdom to…
You’re bad, we’re good – the binary politics of 2022
The current advertising campaign for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers pens a letter to the perceived closed minds of Australia accusing…
Can Nato help Ukraine without provoking Putin?
Nato is trying to walk a tightrope in Ukraine. It wants the Russian invasion to be defeated, as the US joint…
Ukraine should think twice before joining the EU
Volodymyr Zelensky certainly made big waves when he addressed the European parliament. In the ensuing debate last week, many MEPs made…
Mail man changes his ‘Russian-sounding’ name
Sanctions, boycotts, bans, penalties of all kind: there’s no end to the punishments being slapped on Moscow. But amid the…
In defence of mutually assured destruction
The slow return of the 1980s has reached its logical conclusion. The prospect of nuclear annihilation is haunting our nightmares once…
Engels mustn’t fall
Should a 3.5 metre high Soviet statue of Karl Marx’s collaborator and patron Friedrich Engels – brought over from Ukraine…
Why is Britain so useless at helping Ukrainian refugees?
Some MPs were in tears yesterday when President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the House of Commons, and understandably so, given the…
British fighters in Ukraine are brave but misguided
The first British volunteers have arrived in Ukraine to ‘do their bit’ in thwarting the Russian invasion. According to reports…
Putin is bored
At the beginning of this year, Vladimir Putin was sitting comfortably in the Kremlin: his legacy so far a steady…
CSIRO-LGBTQQIAAP+
Don’t expect Australia’s peak science body to come up with a vaccine against ‘wokeness’. They are, themselves, riddled with it.…
Zelenskyy and Ukraine are unifying the West
Lamenting an old England disappearing under modernity, Philip Larkin wrote in his poem Going, Going: Most things are never meant. The…
Zelensky’s address was strange, but sensational
This afternoon, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the House of Commons. A single flat-screen TV broadcast his speech to…
Maria Bartiromo vs social media
Fox Nation, the online streaming counterpart to Fox News, recently dropped a new investigative series by Maria Bartiromo called Killer…
‘We will fight in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets’: Zelensky addresses the Commons
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted with applause and a standing ovation this evening when he appeared before the House…
Sharks, technocrats, and the post-human delusion
Politics never interested me until a spate of shark attacks occurred at my local Ballina beach next to the river…
Could Turkey rejoin the West?
Istanbul, Turkey Wherever you go in Istanbul, Atatürk is rarely far away. Portraits of the man who founded the Turkish…
Labour flounders to define the word ‘woman’
Happy International Women’s Day! To mark this auspicious occasion, the Radio 4 programme Woman’s Hour today hosted a conversation between…
Putin miscalculated. Let’s not do the same
Only the Russian people can decide how long Putin remains in the Kremlin, but the invasion of Ukraine will likely…
Why is Britain reluctant to open its doors to Ukrainians?
Among opposition politicians there is a new question being asked of the war in Ukraine: why has the UK not…
