A turning point on cancel culture?
“There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no…
Forget the virus. We should be panicked by lost productivity
The very definition of harmful advice is found in the Treasury’s five yearly Intergenerational Report, the latest edition of which…
What did a poobah of public health just say?
Excuse me? Excuse me? What did Queensland’s poobah of public health (and governor to be) Jeannette Young say today? Really…
The strange religiosity of Covid compliance
Something has gone badly wrong with the Established Church when it appears more indignant at the breaking of social distance…
Is communism authoritarian capitalism?
On July 1, 1921, the founding congress of the Chinese Communist party was held in Shanghai, when 12 men gathered in…
What do Extinction Rebellion have against a free press?
One can only hope that the profound political thinkers of Extinction Rebellion took care not to dump cow manure on…
Should we be mixing AstraZeneca and Pfizer shots?
To date, the Covid vaccination programme in Britain has involved two doses of one of three vaccines – AstraZeneca, Pfizer…
Is WorkSafe Victoria grossly incompetent – or is something else going on?
We need to ask: Is WorkSafe Victoria grossly incompetent or is something else going on? Yesterday, June 29, 2021 was…
How much longer can the Treasury rig the housing market?
The past 15 months have produced a bizarre economic paradox. In 2020, the economy shrank at the fastest rate recorded…
Will the American media stand up for Hong Kong before it’s too late?
On October 1 of last year, the New York Times printed an op-ed from Regina Ip, executive council and legislative…
What does Starmer actually stand for?
The biggest reason Keir Starmer has proved a flop is not that he leads an unelectable rabble, or that Labour’s…
The economic illiteracy of anti-capitalists
Back in October, World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart recommended that countries borrow heavily during the pandemic. ‘First, you worry…
Vaccine segregation is an affront to liberty
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, supported by state premiers and territory chief ministers, is set to make the coronavirus vaccination mandatory…
The growing extremism of France’s Green party
On Sunday evening I met three left-leaning French friends for a picnic in a Parisian park. We’d hardly begun the…
The EU’s founder should be a saint – but he created a monster
There was a certain degree of cynicism when the Pope decided to place the EU’s founder on the path to…
Good Jon bad
Here’s an old writers trick that doesn’t involve moving to Tunisia and becoming a dope fiend. If you don’t want to say…
Tough love: NSW Lockdown 2.0 is very wrong
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Six steps ScoMo must make to take control of the Covid agenda
Australia’s current WuFlu situation is not dire in world terms, yet from the reactions of federal, state and territory governments,…
Like the mighty Murray, Covid public policy insanity never runs dry
Here we go again. Let us sip once again, dear fellow citizens, from the bottomless well of public policy insanity…
Sajid Javid’s optimistic Covid forecast
Sajid Javid used his first appearance at the despatch box since his appointment as Health Secretary to paint an optimistic…
Matt Hancock and the problem with China’s surveillance tech
There can have been no more avid viewers of the CCTV footage of Matt Hancock’s snog and grope than China’s…
Is Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid doomed?
Nothing went as predicted in France’s regional elections. Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National did not win a single region and…
Japan’s punishing workplace culture
Are the world’s hardest workers about to get a well-earned break? That seems to be the hope of the Japanese…
Why an EU-Russia summit was always going to fail
When Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel unilaterally proposed a European Union summit with Vladimir Putin, they managed to open deep…
How crises shape government
Crises often exhaust the capacity of governments to renew themselves. All consuming problems do not allow prime ministers to have…
