Why Israel must win over its Arab population
Which Middle Eastern country offers the best life for Arabs? The answer, as they say, might surprise you. Take any…
The man behind Xi Jinping
At the height of the Cultural Revolution, over a billion copies of Mao’s Little Red Book were distributed across the…
Trouble for the US at the Woke-yo Olympics
Can Trumpists still believe in ‘America First’ if they root against America in the Olympics? Yes, apparently. The US team…
Can Do can – but at Amanda Stoker’s expense
My esteemed colleague Terry Barnes, here in the ethereal pages of the Speccie Australia, this morning wrote a ‘Double Shot’ briefing piece…
Can I join Marjorie Taylor Greene in Twitter jail?
Marjorie Taylor Greene held a press conference late last week. It took place inside, meaning the Jews with the space…
When are we going to get out of this mess?
When are we going to get out of this mess? When are all of these lockdowns, mask mandates, on-again, off-again…
Australia proves the cost of zero Covid
The UK is growing at the fastest pace in 80 years. The United States, fuelled by President Biden’s stimulus programme,…
LSE students demand abolition of Hayek Society
Another day, another student fiasco. This time the scene of the crime is the London School of Economics and a…
Iran is running out of water
It’s far from an exact science, but if you want to get a sense of where the world is heading…
Britain’s creeping authoritarianism
When a top Edinburgh school announced earlier this month that it would stop teaching To Kill a Mockingbird, citing the…
The fading case for vaccine passports
Last week, Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the current surge in NSW infections is due to the Delta variant,…
The EU’s menacing rule of law power grab
Officially the European Union may be a union of sovereign states. But its Commission increasingly has the air of an…
Spain’s growing culture war over General Franco
There are hundreds of mass graves dotted around the Spanish countryside. In roadside ditches, down hillside gullies, dumped in pits…
Illegal tobacco syndicates are a problem Australia and Asia doesn’t need
Recently, the joint Australia-ASEAN Taskforce on Illicit Tobacco seized over 19 million illegal cigarettes bound for our Indo-Pacific region. The…
Are the Japanese finally embracing the Tokyo Olympics?
Such gloom and negativity has surrounded the Tokyo Olympics that cynics were suggesting that, when the grand Olympic countdown clock…
Campbell Newman: can Can Do do it?
Let’s open with a trivia question: which Royal Military College Duntroon colleague did Campbell Newman act as best man to? The…
How will Merkel cope with retirement?
Retirement sounds pretty nice. The ONS says that pensioners spend an average of seven hours and ten minutes a day on…
One continent, eight nations
The British rugby fans have their Six Nations. Well, we now have eight nations, if you count our beloved territories. …
What’s woke this week?
Welcome to wacky Wokeworld where whistling the theme from Bob the Builder is considered a ‘non-crime hate incident’, where insect…
Covid cases are falling – but don’t think it’s all over
The official Covid-19 dashboard has turned green and cases appear to have peaked, at least for now. You hear a…
Emmanuel Macron’s dangerous infantilisation of the French
From St Tropez to La Rochelle to Deauville, there is a familiar sight this summer in many of France’s most…
Protests? Whatever for?
Our political class cannot comprehend why people who have been locked in their homes for the better part of two…
Don’t fall for Rishi Sunak’s ‘Britcoin’
Do we need an officially-sanctioned, government-backed crypto-currency underwritten by sterling – a ‘Britcoin’ – as Rishi Sunak is said to…
The elite’s death wish and the Wuhan lab leak
Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China, was a committed Marxist who supported the adaptation of such a Western ideology by…
Robot Waleed’s ‘moral burden’ as he dances in The Minefield
ABC Radio National’s The Minefield claims to ‘unpack‘ the moral and ethical issues of our time. Sadly the show fails to unpack…
