Fortress Europe is dreading the Afghan migrant crisis
Fortress Europe is pulling up the drawbridge. The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban is likely to being about a…
Iran is an immediate winner of the Taliban takeover
A staple of observing politics is watching rhetoric curdle into reality. Operation Enduring Freedom, thought up and slapped together in…
Boris Johnson’s Macron-esque pettiness
How we all hollered with outrage in May when Emmanuel Macron closed France’s borders to people arriving from Britain on…
Continuous disclosure obligations: now with less activist tail wagging the corporate dog
It was 2012 and I found myself walking into the High Court in Canberra: shiny red soles on my stilettos,…
Central Asia’s geography after America’s defeat
However much it is denied, we still live in an imperial age, at least metaphorically. Just as the withdrawal from…
Is Afghanistan to blame for Biden’s sinking popularity — or is COVID?
‘How many more generations of America’s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghanistan’s civil war when…
CRT is the dialectic of suicide
Some things in this world go so beyond the pale that it becomes absurd to weigh and measure them upon…
Is Japan about to enter a ‘London-style lockdown’?
Just like the Olympics, which ended a fortnight ago, the Paralympics is set to commence amid a drumbeat of doom.…
A lockdown opponent’s wish: may I be courageous like Soviet dissidents I knew
At 58, I have for the first time become a dissident. I am in active opposition to Covid-19 related policies…
Pakistan’s masochistic support for the Taliban
Taliban flags are already flying in Islamabad. Among those hoisting the white flag of the group is the women’s madrassa…
Australia, we’ve got you cowered
If you didn’t already think so, the news that police have received thousands of calls from Aussies dobbing in other…
ScoMo’s said ‘no’ – but this is why we need a ‘Freedom Day’
The great semanticist and one-time Republican senator from California, Samuel I. Hayakawa once remarked that language is thought in action.…
Cambridge, ‘whiteness’ and the politicisation of Classics
In Cambridge University’s latest push to right the wrongs of history, its Museum of Classical Archaeology will add some signage…
Just what is the Reserve Bank up to?
The conduct of monetary and fiscal policy since the pandemic began has no parallel in Australia’s economic history, certainly not compared to what happened during the more severe Spanish Flu a century ago. Back then in the…
Larry Elder’s Republican rivals are outraged by his past. Voters don’t care
Fresno, California In the heart of California’s Bible belt, over a thousand people filled the Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall Sunday…
Can facial recognition tech be stopped?
In recent years, facial recognition technology has been introduced into our lives in various benign ways. The ease of using…
The policing of ‘non-crimes’ shows the dark side of rainbow cars
The great awokening of the British constabulary has got to be the most curious and infuriating part of our culture…
Governments, get real. Eliminating Covid from the community with fines is fantasy
The unacceptable violence at Melbourne’s ‘freedom’ rally, the quieter Sydney and Adelaide rallies and the New South Wales/Queensland border ‘invasion’…
Boris Johnson attempts to influence Biden
Ever since Joe Biden made the decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Boris Johnson has been scrambling to catch up…
No. 10 is distorting the economy
Job vacancies at a record high, a shortage of 90,000 lorry drivers, farmers complaining about a lack of seasonal workers,…
A Scotsman’s home is no longer his castle
If you suggest to an English politician that your home should be your castle to use as you like, he…
The Taliban take over The Age Green Guide
At a time when the world is going to hell and some perspective is desperately needed, thank God for the…
Scott Morrison and our Afghan allies: as shameful as Whitlam with South Vietnam
On August 18, 1971 then prime minister William McMahon announced the final withdrawal of Australian combat troops from Vietnam. It…
Let’s be more up-front and honest with the daily Covid numbers
According to the federal Department of Health website, yesterday there were 10,956 active cases of Covid-19 across Australia. Of these,…
Joe Biden must go
Joe Biden is unfit to be President of the United States. It was obvious when he was running for office…
