Nigel Farage’s China curveball should worry the Tory party
I have lost count of the number of times the Conservative Party has thought it has shot Nigel Farage’s fox.…
Tell Chicken Little to go home and stop making policy
In a state with 8 million people in a city of 5 million, 49 locals this week contracted a virus…
How close are the Georgia runoffs?
In one sense, the two runoff elections taking place in Georgia on Tuesday are relatively simple. If Democrats win both…
Hillsong Church is to blame for absolutely everything
Forget coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party and Climate Change: the greatest threat to Australia is Hillsong Church. If you believe…
How coronavirus controls killed my faith in the Liberal Party
The following is my letter of resignation from the Liberal Party. It has just been presented to the Membership Coordinator…
Buckle up for Biden and the Blob
With any change of power in Washington, it is routine to ask which policies will endure and which will change.…
Eight trends to watch in 2021
Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but…
Why Trump must attend Biden’s inauguration
Recent political talk has focused almost entirely on January 5 (the Georgia Senate runoffs) and January 6 (congressional certification of…
Revealed: the astounding quality of our state parliamentarians
From The Age: Labor upper house MP Cesar Melhem… said… some… MPs found it difficult to secure employment after… politics……
The new COVID crisis shows Victoria’s public health administration is in deadly decline
With the Victorian-New South Wales border shut again and the holiday plans of tens of thousands thrown into chaos it’s…
Donald Trump in The Codfather
Finally, some real evidence of electoral fraud. After weeks of claims and court dismissals, Donald Trump at last has solid…
We are at war with China
Let’s face it. We’re at war with China. Whether we like this or not ‘war’ is what it is. At this stage,…
Three decades on and John Hewson is still getting it wrong
Australia’s most illiberal former Liberal leader John Hewson wants governments to begin randomly testing people for coronavirus. “Is it too…
Free to air tedium
It is said that you get what you pay for, and as regards free to air television, truer words have…
End the misery and confusion: we need national COVID coordination
At a time when Victorians should be celebrating the end of a horror year, thousands have cancelled their holiday plans…
The EU is taking a gamble with China
It took Brussels and Beijing seven years to agree an investment deal. A deal that, until its conclusion a few…
How good is ScoMo’s ‘new and improved formula’ national anthem?
Ever since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (ridiculous) decision to announce via Tweet the changing of Australia’s national anthem, the usual…
Happy New Year and do what you’re told
While taking a rare trip one day on a suburban bus, I noticed a very small discreet sticker on the window…
Are we back in the Obama White House?
Like most Greek stories, the tale of Pandora’s box is fraught with ambiguity. Most of us, when we first encounter the story,…
How Israel became a world leader in vaccination
On a cold night three days before the end of the 2020 I drove down to Jerusalem’s Pais Arena. The…
Has Brexit already destroyed Labour’s chances?
Part of the soap opera appeal of politics comes from the idea that it is a competitive sport based on…
Why 2021 could be the year of economic Armageddon
The British economy is wrapped in bandages – we won’t know whether the wound has scabbed or turned septic until…
Thatcher was completely right about the Euro
It was a ‘rush of blood to the head’. Its central bank would prove to be hopelessly ineffective. And cultural…
Once upon a time we had a plebiscite to change the national anthem – and try telling the Premiers we are ‘one and free’
Australians all awoke today to discover that we are “one and free”. Yes. Just like that. Even despite the best…
Does anyone care about the middle class?
The American middle class is in a precarious position. After decades of decline — the percentage of Americans in the…
