China’s zero-Covid policy is becoming unsustainable
With just three weeks until the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Covid-19 is creeping ever closer to the…
The Netherlands is growing tired of lockdown restrictions
On Wednesday at De Kleine Komedie, the oldest theatre in Amsterdam, the sound of comics on stage will be interspersed…
Fresh fears over parliamentary police
It’s been a pretty dreadful week for security at the Palace of Westminster. First, there was the admission that a…
Novak Djokovic’s arrogance was his downfall
The Australian government’s decision to cancel the world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic’s visa was inevitable in the end.…
Does the world want America ‘back’?
American foreign-policy strategists used to promulgate doctrines. Now they dream up slogans. ‘America is back’ is the jingle under which…
Austria is becoming a nightmare for the unvaccinated
Salzburg, Austria Across Austria, the streets are alive with the sounds of drums and cow bells. Ever since the Austrian…
Boris’s biggest mistake was taking his allies for granted
It is often said that there are few convinced ‘Boris-ites’ to be found among the ranks of Conservative MPs and…
The battle for ‘based’
Earlier this week, a pair of right-libertarian journalists announced the launch of their new site, BASEDPolitics. All hell promptly broke…
Will the media ever be honest about Joe Biden?
Joe Biden usually likes being compared to Donald Trump. During the 2020 presidential campaign the media often contrasted the two…
Is Covid crushing the Australian spirit?
The media and state governments have irrevocably destroyed our innate mental and emotional stability by pitting Australians against each other.…
Don’t turn tennis into Tampa
Not since the deportation of Joe Cocker in the dying days of Billy McMahon’s government has there been a celebrity…
Lithuania backs Taiwan despite Beijing bullies
The West needs to unite in defence of rules-based order
Sydney diary
The Test matches between Australia and England in Australia have not been much of a test of the Australian side.…
Communists down under
When I was a fifteen-year-old student at Melbourne High School, I tried to join the Communist Party of Australia. One…
West Side Story
How strange to revisit the Nova in Lygon Street, Carlton, where a lifetime of films have been experienced, after an…
Aussie Life
I am writing this in Old South Wales, in the visitor suite of my mother’s assisted living facility. When I…
Trump is right
The election was rigged It was inevitable that 6 January would be used in a desperate attempt to breathe life…
Aussie Language
In his column in the Weekend Australian just before Christmas demographer Bernard Salt expressed his fear that the Australian language…
