Is inflation slowing?
Whatever happened to the inflation surge? Last month, when the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) surged to 3.2 per cent, the…
First lockdown, now segregation
As New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet leads the way out of lockdowns and restrictions in Australia, a job Scott…
The death of David Amess has no easy answers
Why has the political debate following Sir David Amess’s killing moved so swiftly to focus on civility in politics? It’s…
No choice on net-zero? Really, Prime Minister?
Believing we always have a choice is key to living in a free, liberal, democratic society like Australia. That’s why…
Biological man scores historic first for women
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary of health, will be sworn in as a four-star…
The WHO fails again – on smoking
Whatever reputation for competence and honesty the World Health Organisation might once have had has been destroyed by its response…
Adam Bandt is being ignored so has had to say something stupid
While the Liberals are flirting with net zero, the Greens are demanding peak stupid and proving themselves to be even…
Let’s Go Brandon takes the charts by storm
It won’t surprise you to learn that Cockburn does not, generally speaking, listen to hip-hop. But he has been forced to…
Their ABC: no so trusted anymore
The ABC is in the headlines on almost a weekly basis for issues of its own making. The crises keep…
COP this, climate sumiteers
Man does not live by bread alone, an early revolutionary once advised his followers. As Glasgow’s COP26 closes in on a discombobulated world, the…
Why I should ever vote Liberal again?
I voted Liberal in 2013 because they promised me Tony Abbott as Prime Minister. My vote was rewarded with Malcolm Turnbull.…
How serious is the government about Net Zero?
The green agenda is leading the news today with Boris Johnson on a PR mission to sell his environmental plans…
What Prince William gets wrong about space travel
Time was when ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’ was not just a line from Star Trek.…
Why does Boris Johnson keep on winning?
For his critics, Boris Johnson offends the notion that the British are a sensible people so deeply we feel we…
The climate Chicken Littles haven’t won. We’ve been here before
Yes, I know things look bad now. Everyone from the News Corp mastheads to the Queen of England and two…
Net zero needs nuclear power, Prime Minister
Scott Morrison is reported to have said when announcing the AUKUS deal “Let me be clear: Australia is not seeking to…
Here come the Nineties
Everyone is bullish on natural gas, but I think America’s most inexhaustible resource might be 1990s nostalgia. Every time it…
Blame Trump for Texas’s ban on vaccine mandates
Political brains detonated last week after Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a new executive order that effectively banned vaccine mandates…
What about the Palestine lobby and our media?
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a pro-Palestinian supremo. She does gung-ho pro-Palestinianism on prime time television, using programs like the ABC’s Q&A…
Are you sure about that vaccine?
Figures don’t lie, my critics insist. Very well, let’s look at some figures. I make three arguments here. First, vaccines are…
Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure
My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…
Rishi in, Keir out: 2020’s most popular baby names
Once the popularity of politicians was judged by how many babies they were asked to kiss – now it’s by…
The idiotic myth of the ‘lone wolf’ attack
In the summer of 2020 the French Senate published a report on the ‘Development of Islamist Radicalisation and the means…
The increasingly expensive claustrophobia of Succession
Success is hard to come by in the Season 3 premier of Succession, which aired last night. As the media…
Did the Johnsons breach lockdown rules?
Did the Johnson clan breach lockdown rules last December? That’s the question being asked in Westminster today after a profile…
