Will dislike of Trump vaudeville push the President out?
Tens of millions of American youngsters are this week facing the ballot box for the first time and their choice…
No, the United States isn’t on the verge of civil war
As the US enters the final straight of what has been — to put it mildly — a highly unusual…
Education in reverse
Just when you thought radical cultural-left ideology and political correctness could get no worse along comes its most recent manifestation…
Holgate’s parachute packed
Christine Holgate, Australia Post’s MD and CEO, has packed her parachute and is preparing to jump or be pushed from…
Who’s really being silenced on campus?
The never-ending social justice messaging from our college and university presidents and their legions of diversity, equity and inclusion officers…
Boris’s ‘Captain Hindsight’ attack backfires
Boris Johnson may be able to explain his U-turn on imposing a second national lockdown on England in policy terms,…
Donald Trump, American Churchill
It is no exaggeration to conclude that humanity is approaching a crucial turning point, with one path leading us further…
Backsliding on a lockdown end-date has begun already
Will England’s lockdown end on 2 December? Even before this morning’s media round there was good reason to suspect it…
Instead of lockdown, let’s create a National Shielding Service
So what would you do? That was the question that cropped up on my Twitter timeline after I’d sent out…
When the going gets tough, the votes get going
Ever since Pauline Hanson first appeared on the national stage a quarter of a century ago, her detractors and the…
The Pope really doesn’t like Republicans
Last week we learned that Pope Francis has torn up the Catholic Church’s teaching that same-sex civil partnerships are gravely…
Will Tory MPs back Boris’s lockdown plan?
Boris Johnson did not want to give a Downing Street press conference this evening. The Prime Minister had hoped to present his…
Why have No. 10’s Covid forecasts changed so much?
We have just seen how much the Prime Minister’s view of the virus has changed, and how quickly. Just ten days ago,…
Why England is going back into lockdown
I’m afraid no responsible Prime Minister can ignore the message of those figures. When I told you two weeks ago…
Getting on with the job? What job, precisely, Prime Minister?
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrision said it was ‘the right decision’ of the Victorian Premier to impose lockdown draconian…
Why a new lockdown is so difficult for Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson had set his face against an England-wide lockdown. He rejected the idea when Sage proposed it back in…
A true tale of Halloween horror
The SpecOz receives some curious media releases with curious punctuation, but this one might just take the cake — or…
What lockdown sceptics get wrong about Sweden
Should Britain return to a form of lockdown — the logical conclusion of a suppression strategy — or should we…
Does Kim Jong-un want the ‘dotard’ or the ‘snob’ to win?
Donald Trump has made plenty of enemies in his time as president, but as the US president himself has claimed, he…
Gold, gold, gold as Victoria wins in treachery, lying and incompetence
After one of the worst ever years for Australians, our state governments are lining up for medals for collectively delivering…
Danspeak decoded
Daniel Andrews this week insisted spin doctors had not helped him to craft key phrases that he has used during…
Is the UK heading for a second national lockdown?
Is the UK heading for a second national lockdown? That’s the question being asked in Westminster as coronavirus cases rise…
Josh shreds Donut Dan
In Victoria this past week, the word was ‘donut’. Or to be precise, double donut: two consecutive days of zero…
Euro wuflu notes
Lonely Goatherd immunity While Australia has spent much of 2020 establishing Iron Curtain border regimes, Europe’s bewildering and ever-changing internal…
