The trouble with Austria’s vaccine passport plan
Are vaccine passports being used in other countries in an attempt to cut Covid infections – or to try and…
Can the Paterson Tory sleaze row continue to damage Boris?
After a bruising week for Boris Johnson over the Owen Paterson lobbying row, the government U-turned on its plan to…
Victorian Labor: you can close your eyes, Dan, but the stench of sleaze won’t go away
Listening to dumped Victorian Labor cabinet minister, Adem Somyurek, speak today you’d swear you had stumbled into the X Files.…
The Bitcoin delusion
Cast your mind back a few years to last week – when there was much laughing and wailing at the…
The mask caste system
Visitors to New York tell me how surprised they are to see so few masked up people on the streets.…
Dateline Glasgow: the climate emergency wore cashmere
Much of the real work of COP26 appeared to diminish substantially after the leaders’ meetings concluded, and some journalists have…
Down the QAnon rabbit hole
Lies, in many cases, are comparable to sparks. They might not be very dangerous in and of themselves but under…
No sex, please, we’re national conservatives
Orlando, Florida Cockburn just got back from the second annual National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida. The ballroom of…
How long can Marshal McGowan and his hermit kingdom stand?
After a piece of mine on Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan was published in The Australian back in February, a former…
It’s time to reform the Big Four accounting firms
It has been exactly 20 years since the Enron scandal upended the reputation of global accountancy firms, leading to the…
Just the facts: coronavirus in Australia by the numbers – updated
Notes: The data below is generally current as at 4 November 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due to jurisdictional reporting…
Tim Smith did the right thing – eventually
It’s rare for a state politician to get a national profile when most Australians don’t have a clue who their…
The Trump talisman doesn’t work anymore
Glenn Youngkin’s victory over Terry McAuliffe is a loud wake-up call for the Democrats, who attempted to fuse the GOP…
Biden and Pelosi score late-night infrastructure win
For months, Democratic negotiations over Joe Biden’s twin spending bills were stuck in a cycle of infighting that felt it…
After a week, a semblance of sense on submarines
It’s only taken a week to get here, but at last we’re seeing some semblance of sense over Australia’s future…
What is national conservatism?
I expected there might be some trouble at the National Conservative Conference, held earlier this week in Orlando. There had…
COP26 and the climate cult’s schizophrenia
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in addressing the fashionable fiction of human-induced climate change used the hackneyed phrase “It’s one…
A net zero referendum? Bring it on
The left-green axis has been in uproar in recent weeks because several right-wing commentators have suggested holding a referendum on…
The West is falling behind China in the next space race
It is the first duty of governments to keep their citizens safe, protecting them from harm. This means constantly being…
What is the Bank of England playing at?
Last week, the Bank of England sent a number of confused messages. One was almost shocking: Andrew Bailey said that…
Will Ethiopia’s capital fall?
There have been stunning developments recently in Ethiopia’s grinding conflict between the national government and Tigrayan rebels in the north.…
‘Climategate’ still matters – but not how the BBC thinks it does
It is 12 years now since a tranche of emails were scraped from the server of the University of East…
The Tice is right: is Reform about to break through?
History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes, said Mark Twain. Right now the commentariat is looking for something that…
Childhood experiments
Somebody once sang that the children are our future at a baseball match in New York but they never said anything about them being the collateral damage…
Carbon capture and story? Try hemp
Glasgow’s favourite son, Billy Connolly, once observed that the natural colour of the average Scotsman is light blue. It takes…
