Las Vegas resident urges Scots to vote SNP
Sunday’s anti-climactic finale looked set to be the biggest Line of Duty let-down for fans of the hit BBC series.…
What keeps President Xi awake at night?
Australia has earned the international community’s respect — and got China’s attention — with our highly visible resistance to Beijing’s…
How Napoleon changed the world
Two hundred years ago today, Napoleon Bonaparte closed his eyes for the final time. A man born to relative obscurity…
What is the point of Meghan Markle’s new children’s book?
Meghan Markle has written a book for children. Of course she has. There is no celeb, no matter how busy,…
Hartlepool and the theft of the Labour party
When the unthinkable happened in 1882 and England lost a test match on home soil to Australia there followed a…
Budget week is looming – as are electric shocks over power prices and reliability
Last month energy minister Angus Taylor cited analysis by the Australian Energy Market Operator showing falls in wholesale electricity to…
Locusts this lunchtime? The CSIRO recommends them
Australia’s peak science body says we should eat insects to save the planet. “Follow the science,” they say. Like hell.…
Is a royal commission the best way to tackle veterans’ suicides?
The announcement by the Morrison Government to appoint a royal commission into the suicides of Australian war veterans will come…
Why we should worry about the post-Covid exodus of older workers
Concerns around unemployment during the pandemic have, understandably, been focused on younger people. Last year it was under-24 year olds…
Xinjiang: the road to terror
Xinjiang is where Communism sits naked, spread over the deserts and mountains, exposing its vicious desire to exploit people in…
Watch: Hillary Clinton blames the Russians for Brexit
Ever since the Brexit vote in 2016, there has been a committed group of activists and politicians convinced that only…
A letter from Canada: we’re handling COVID worse than you
Dear Americans, We’re Canadian and, yes, we’re sorry. No, this time we mean it. You likely hadn’t noticed, but Canada…
Joe Biden, master of puppets?
They’ve finally found a way to make Joe Biden look young and vigorous: put him next to a Jimmy Carter…
Sex, gender and the politics of domestic violence
Dividing society into groups of angels and demons is an unhelpful game that is played in our nation around issues…
The rise of the female ambassador
It is, of course, an excellent thing and a mark of social progress when an institutional bastion falls to woman-power.…
Is this how Daleks dress for Mardi Gras?
Is this how Daleks dress for Mardi Gras or Extinction Rebellion acting like idiots again in their latest newsletter? It’s…
Good government needs a good opposition
Here’s a quick point more than a few people overlook. What a government can and cannot do politically depends in…
The dividing wall between law and politics is under attack
All my legal life I have watched with sadness those who are ever groping, Gollum-like, unable to resist the idea…
BBC makes a cameo in SNP election campaign
The SNP’s latest election graphic will make for uncomfortable viewing at BBC Scotland. As tweeted by Nicola Sturgeon today, the…
How David Attenborough and the catastrophist crew have humanity wrong
“‘Humans are intruders’ and the natural world is better off without us, says Sir David Attenborough,” runs the Independent’s headline. It’s a…
Scottish independence case is built on myths, denial and conspiracy theories
Anyone who engages in online debate about the case for Scottish independence will have encountered Scottish nationalist fact-deniers and myth-spreaders…
Meet the male Karens
Several weeks back, I went for a run in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria in Northern Virginia. It’s the…
A cause worth dying for – versus euthanasia
The government’s attitude to death is paradoxical. While imposing restrictive rules on the population last year to prevent us from…
A “fairer and healthier world” needs a better public health agency than the WHO
As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in the world, killing hundreds of thousands in India while triggering fears about another lockdown in Perth,…
Higher prices, lower competitiveness as Daniel Andrews goes it alone on emissions
Victoria has announced its intent to go much further than the federal government in requiring the substitution of renewable energy for the much cheaper and more secure energy…
