Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? Sorry, but there’s only one gospel – the Gospel According to Dan
Those who accuse the Victorian Government of trying to remove religion from the public square with their so-called gay conversion…
Mark McGowan, the new Prince Leonard
Keen observers of Australian politics will recall that on January 31 last year, by decree of His Royal Highness, Prince…
Politicians, advice – and advisors
Given the content of this and prior pieces, it is fair to assume that I am a largish consumer of…
Two can play the cancel game
Conservatives, can we all agree to stop apologizing for our politics and beliefs? Can we choose to back ourselves, and…
What’s the solution to aged care squalor? Us
The Royal Commission on Aged Care finally reported yesterday. The two commissioners, Tony Pagone and Lynelle Briggs, between them made…
Who killed Chicago?
‘I wonder if you might do a “notebook” on living in Chicago at the moment,’ my London-based editor inquired via email. ‘The latest…
The West’s vaccine complacency
Today, in their first bilateral summit, Joe Biden will meet (virtually) Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Among other things…
Oxford’s remarkable vaccine success
It is worth taking a moment to stand back and applaud Sarah Gilbert and the Oxford vaccine team’s achievement. The…
EU leaders’ vaccine sniping backfires
The eyes of the world have been on Britain’s vaccination programme in recent months, as the UK government embarked on…
Why did Roy Greenslade demonise me when I accused an IRA member of rape?
Does it really matter if someone who was a newspaper editor, columnist and journalism professor has now admitted to being…
Nicolas Sarkozy and a very French corruption scandal
Nicolas Sarkozy, 66, President of France from 2007 to 2012, currently a valued member of Emmanuel Macron’s informal council of…
Government and little people: the democratic divide in Danandrewstan
The disconnect between the protected public sector and mainstream Victorians was perfectly encapsulated by the Secretary of the Department of…
Can the EU be trusted to introduce vaccine passports?
The contracts were badly drafted. The orders were late. Too few resources were made available for the scale of the…
Joe Biden’s infantilizing everyman theater
One of my favorite photos of all time comes from a 2012 March Madness basketball game that then-president Barack Obama…
How worried should we be about the Brazilian variant?
How worried should we be about the news that P1, one of the two Brazilian variants of Sars-CoV-2, has been…
The Republican party has taken over Donald Trump
Forty minutes into Donald Trump’s remarks at CPAC, I’d formed a conclusion. Donald Trump hasn’t just taken over the Republican…
Banned: sweet singing in the choir
The Sunday before last I went to the basketball where the courtside announcer encouraged us to chant “defence, defence” as…
The rapid fall of Germany’s health minister
Young, polished and confident, Germany’s health minister became the country’s most popular politician in 2020. A darling of the conservative…
Why governments secretly love our crazy house and assets boom
There’s no inflation. The experts tell us so. The Clerics of Martin Place, our highly paid monetary gurus at the Reserve Bank, have declared that…
What will it be for Zak Kirkup?
In the book of Ecclesiastes, we are told “there is nothing new under the sun.” It is true in most…
Donald Trump tightens his grip on the Republican party
‘Do you miss me yet,’ Donald Trump asked the crowd in his opening remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference…
He’s back: Trump flirts with 2024 run in first speech since leaving office
Donald Trump was over an hour late for his first speech since leaving the White House at the Conservative Political…
Dear Nicolle Flint, we’re all sick of the hypocrisy too
The list of those saddened by Nicolle Flint’s announcement that she will leave politics is extensive. Residents in her Adelaide…
The greatest threat to Boris’s legacy
The government is starting to have an opinion poll problem, but it has nothing to do with any great threat…
The battle for the soul of the Jewish community
There are two groups in the Jewish community – mainstream Jews who, while still religious, do their best to assimilate…
