Now the Nats are choosing cute ‘n’ cuddly with koalas over facts
New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro has ‘kissed and made up’ with Environment Minister Matt ‘Green’ Kean after taking time…
How will Trump leave office?
Send in the troops. The nation must restore order. The military stands ready. Aficionados of the New York Times may recall…
The Big Tech backfire
If your aim is to stop America descending into civil conflict, it’s hard to think of a less effective method…
The delicate balancing act of lockdown messaging
Matt Hancock spent Monday evening trying to explain a very delicate tension to the public. There’s the good news of…
Did Boris’s bike ride breach lockdown rules?
Exercise is a dangerous game these days. As two women recently discovered, drive five miles for a walk at a beauty…
How our governments – and governance – could be improved by term limits
After a contentious two-year term capped off by a tumultuous 2020, January 3 marked the beginning of the 117th Congress…
The trouble with alienating Middle America
You’ve got to admire the left. Granted, they own the internet, the media, the courts (apparently) and now the government,…
Why we want foreign students with a commitment to Australia
Last summer, BC — Before Covid — a friend and I strolled around Canberra’s university precinct, called ‘The China Quarter’…
Daniel Andrews: the pissants’ premier
Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, leads a crumbling and unworthy public sector that is working against the interests of those who…
WA’s Mark McGowan lets the COVID cat out of the bag
Fresh from the Oz: Western Australian premier Mark McGowan has called on NSW to fall in line with the other…
Why the pandemic secrecy and censorship?
There is no justification for the uniquely high-level of secrecy the Australian government has maintained throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A…
Praise be to our benevolent Big Tech Overlords
It is done. The Dark Lord has been vanquished. His threatening aura has been purged from Twitter, along with many…
What Amnesty International gets wrong about Israel’s vaccine programme
Israel’s remarkable vaccine rollout has been deservedly praised. But not everyone is full of goodwill. Depressingly and inevitably, commentators and human…
Despite Covid, things really are getting better
If Covid-19 had swept Britain in 1800, the chances are that no one would have noticed. The clinical signatures of…
Deadly virus kills our freedoms
It has been fascinating to watch how different countries have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. Some nations have been nothing…
So much for cooler heads prevailing
There was a glimmer of hope amid the events at the US Capitol building on Wednesday. Could this be the…
We have banned hate speech. Now we must ban hate votes
Drongo alert: this piece may contain traces of satire and irony. We have banned hate speech in order to protect…
MAGA arrives at the last level of the video game
I played my share of video games when I was a kid and there was nothing quite like getting to…
Trump’s social media ban sets a dangerous precedent
Facebook and Twitter’s decision to suspend Donald Trump is, legally speaking, fairly clear-cut. Both are private companies which set the…
Iran’s people will pay a heavy price for Khamenei’s vaccine politics
The Middle East is changing. Israelis now splurge at Gucci and Rolex in Dubai. Saudi women speed down desert highways;…
Joe Biden’s Big Tech takeover
Twitter’s banning of Donald Trump is like bolting the stable door after the QAnon shaman has gone. The damage was…
Not the death of democracy – not even close
Contrary to the aphorism and what you’re seeing in America, things don’t fall apart, the centre nearly always holds. Despite what you read democracy…
The Great Purge
Beneath the noise of America’s Capitol Hill protests lurks the silent rise of Silicon Valley. Tens of thousands of social…
One and free? If only we were
The paradox of our age of abundance, is that we fret incessantly about scarcity, and yet, like the wisdom of…
