Universities are hanging men out to dry
Four days before Christmas one of our elite universities committed an act of total bastardry; they announced they were firing…
What was Ted Cruz thinking?
At least since the 2016 election, one of my favorites politicians — one of the few I could stomach at…
The EU rules creating an armada of empty ‘ghost flights’
This week it was reported that Lufthansa Group – which also owns Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss International…
Why does getting a Covid test in NSW feel like winning the lottery?
The odds of winning the lottery are, well, like winning the lottery… Your chances are bleak, but you put your…
Science and morality: woke universities have lost their way
Imagine if you can, a place where children are reared to adulthood, educated from kindergarten to year 12, before heading…
Covid has made America more divided than ever
I knew when I boarded the plane home to America on Boxing Day that I was heading to an unhappy…
Goodbye Bill de Blasio, New York-hating communist
At the stroke of midnight on January 1, Bill de Blasio — New York’s bumbling, mildly sinister but profoundly incompetent…
America is in a state of mass formation paralysis
Unless you happen to live under a rock, this week you became aware of Dr. Robert Malone. He’s a virologist…
The Pope is right: it is selfish to choose pets over children
Well, we’ve been terrifically amused and amusing at the expense of Pope Francis, who this week declared at a Vatican…
Welcome to the end of democracy
We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian…
Masks in schools: how convincing is the government’s evidence?
Why has the government changed its mind and asked children to wear masks in school? When Plan B was announced…
Why is Bilbo Baggins a fascist favourite?
If you were asked to think of a perfect fascist, never in a month of Sundays would you suggest Bilbo Baggins…
There’s nothing more frightening than a woman in politics
It is difficult to argue that women are the less capable gender when they have spent the last ten million…
Reviving Australian liberalism
New Year is a time for resolutions and for reflecting on the year passed. After the last two years of…
Euro notes
Testing times for the second Covid Christmas Those like me inclined to whinge about Europe’s reaction to Covid are regularly…
The Cardinal’s books
There are a thousand overtly artistic things to talk about at this summer moment including the new Sidney Nolan exhibition…
