How Putin is following Hitler’s playbook
Like many rulers of Russia before him, especially Stalin, Vladimir Putin is a keen student of History. Judging by his…
Putin’s next move
Budapest Russian troops, many apparently without insignia, began advancing into the disputed Donbas region yesterday. The question now is how…
Why the silence over Biden’s links with Ukraine?
‘He has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.’ So…
Dark times for freedom of speech
You could barely imagine a more ludicrous scenario. A female CEO sacked without process. From Girl Guides. For questioning why…
Connecting the dots between Russiagate and Hillary
Let’s connect the dots between John Durham, Russiagate, the FBI, and Hillary Clinton. They strongly suggest the Clinton campaign ran…
Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers
If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of…
Covid and government: health as a numbers game
Numbers weren’t meant to be complicated. We use them daily, yet when it comes to Covid and our health they…
University and TAFE vaccine ‘policy’ mandates are misinformed
As an Australian, I have been fed a steady diet of anti-discrimination doctrine for many years. It’s a common thread…
Putin must look at the West and laugh
Whatever the West’s response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, the crisis demonstrates the limitations of western politics and policy…
Unmasking ‘panda diplomacy’
The star of the Beijing Winter Olympics wasn’t an athlete: it was Bing Dwen Dwen, the spacesuit-clad panda mascot. It…
Macron’s diplomatic failure in Russia was still a political success
President Emmanuel Macron may or may not have imagined that his mission to Moscow would head off armed conflict in…
It may sound crazy, but Russia should be admitted to Nato
The Cold War is over. It’s time the West started acting like it. When the hot war with Germany ended…
Are the lights about to go out across Europe?
Today’s snap decision by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to halt Nord Stream 2 — the new pipeline intended to export…
It’s too late to break Europe’s gas reliance on Russia
So, Nord Stream 2 will not be plugged into Germany’s gas grid. A little surprisingly, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been…
Germany’s canning of Nord Stream 2 will hit Putin hard
Vladimir Putin’s threats towards Ukraine have, in part, been an operation in stoking divisions throughout the West. As James Forsyth…
Sanctions won’t stop Putin
The Lithuanian prime minister, Ingrida Šimonyte, put it well yesterday: ‘the way we respond will define us for the generations to…
Russia’s Ukraine invasion is an own goal for Putin
Vladimir Putin does like to keep us guessing. While Western governments were warning in increasingly apocalyptic terms of a full-scale…
The West has a bad case of ‘tall poppy syndrome’
I notice that the infantile ‘cutting down the tall poppy syndrome’ appears to be flourishing again. A favourite target of…
Breadgate: let them eat wholegrain
In recent weeks it’s been tempting to look for similarities between the re-election prospects of Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison.…
Weaponising womanhood to destroy equality
Lately, I have been considering why, at a time when women have unprecedented access to opportunities and are participating in…
Bandit Bandt and grave robbin’ Albo
It would take a certain kind of malevolence to stand up during a pandemic and float the idea of taxing…
Will Putin now roll on to Kiev?
The White House told us with absolute certainty that there would be an invasion of Ukraine this week — instead…
The seismic importance of Putin’s latest move
Vladimir Putin has tonight unilaterally recognised the two breakaway republics in Ukraine. In doing so, he has effectively ended the…
Ending restrictions won’t save Boris
Boris Johnson certainly managed to rally the troops on their first day back from recess this afternoon as he told…
Simpleton central
George Orwell once observed: ‘Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.’ What would Orwell say about Australian…
