Covid, compassion, conscience and civil disagreement
Some would argue that thanks to ‘cancel culture’ and the curious notion that a differing view is synonymous with stupidity…
Woke California bans boys and girls toy sections
Last week, signing a batch of pet bills to end the legislative session, Governor Gavin Newsom made California the first…
America’s state of malaise
The word malaise, a general feeling of uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify, is creeping into discussions. It’s…
The Bureau of Statistics bells the cat on lockdown and jobs
Today’s unemployment figures give a picture-perfect snapshot of the impact of lockdown on jobs. The unemployment rate increased to 4.6%,…
News Corp has its woke and eats it?
Is the Harvey Norman, sorry, News Corp papers’ sudden greenwashing an attempt to generate advertising revenue? One reader thinks so.…
Who exactly runs the ABC nowadays?
The combative, pugnacious Gaven Morris is quitting his taxpayer-funded job as national news chief at the ABC. The questions as…
Is Britain’s economic recovery still on track?
Compared with July, August’s GDP boost looks much healthier — but that’s not saying much. Originally thought to have stagnated…
Why is British Airways banning ‘ladies and gentlemen’?
British Airways is dropping ‘ladies and gentlemen’ from its announcements. In the name of diversity and inclusion, the airline has…
Cummings throws a spanner in the Brexit works
Is Dominic Cummings about to derail the government’s plans for a new Northern Ireland protocol? That’s the concern inside government as Boris…
The ECJ’s credibility is in tatters
Is the European Court of Justice (ECJ) a properly independent court? The damning verdict of two respected EU law academics…
The imperative of a complete ban on Hamas
On October 1, the head of ASIO, Mike Burgess, expressed support for banning Hamas in its entirety. When questioned during…
You can’t cancel women from women’s sport
From the US Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her references to “menstruating person”, to the Lancet’s “bodies with vaginas” to Australia’s…
The sleepwalkers
It is customary for presidencies to lose vitality and purpose in their last months. It is unprecedented for a presidency…
The laziness of blue-state separatists
Dean Obeidallah has an impressive résumé. While he is not a household name, the lawyer-turned-award-winning-comedian hosts a satellite radio program,…
The Taliban learn just how hard governing Afghanistan is
For the first time in two decades, and arguably for the first time since the late 1970s, there is a…
A Catch-22 defeated Peter Ridd – but there’s still hope for academic freedom
Peter Ridd has lost in the High Court, but the judgment has nevertheless set an important precedent in favour of…
Superwoke
Faster than a Pride Parade. More powerful than a social justice warrior. Able to leap all 72 genders in a…
Covid, lockdown and the retreat of scientific debate
Science is about rational disagreement, the questioning and testing of orthodoxy and the constant search for truth. With something like…
Harry and Meghan become ethical bankers
Broadcasting, writing, life-coaching and speech-making: there seems to be no end to the talents of Harry and Meghan. But now…
Why Anglo-French relations will only get worse
The French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has given a very frank interview to the New York Times. It is…
Don’t bet on the EFFing crisis bringing down Boris
Boris Johnson is taking one heck of a risk by making labour shortages a deliberate part of his economic strategy. That,…
Academic groupthink: is Nick Coatsworth the new Peter Ridd?
Never has it been so important for Australian universities to be places of free intellectual inquiry than it is right now. But…
David Frost’s protocol diplomacy
As a general rule in post-Brexit politics, when David Frost makes a public intervention on the Northern Ireland protocol, it…
Sally Rooney’s novels don’t deserve to be translated into Hebrew
I recently had to read a book by Sally Rooney in a work capacity, and my goodness that was half…
The real reason Britain failed on coronavirus
The joint health and science super-committee’s report into ‘lessons learned’ on the UK’s coronavirus response may not want to ‘point fingers…
