Jacinda Ardern’s Labour landslide
Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party has won re-election in a landslide. Her government improved its vote-share by around 12 per cent…
Why ‘town halls’ are a sham
Of all the frauds and indignities that are foisted on the American people every presidential election cycle, the ‘town hall’…
The SNP, trans rights and the war on women
For a while, it seemed as though Scotland was taking the lead on challenging the new gender orthodoxy. Despite all…
What lockdown sceptics get wrong
One of the more peculiar features of Covid is just how cleanly the crisis has split us down political lines.…
Will the #IStandWithDan brigade still unbutton for Sutton?
In August, Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton speedily catapulted to cult status as Australia’s most lusted after silver fox.…
The Peta Principle
In 1969, Canadian academic Laurence Peter defined what came to be known as the Peter Principle: a person in an…
Diary
Gulag survivor and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can’t…
Covid notes
India and the missed opportunity of HCQ The coronavirus pandemic has had rapidly shifting and often contested storylines on infectiousness,…
Business/Robbery etc.
Does Hello Big Spenders mean Farewell Fiscal Discipline? But will the private sector deliver? In line with classic Liberal party…
Will the last Dan standing turn out the lights?
When will governments learn that lockdowns don’t work?
The end of the Arab-Israeli conflict
It’s only taken a hundred and one years to correct one scribbled note
Portrait of the piss artist as a young man
Being the son of the revered John Olsen has often been intriguing, and sometimes difficult. Olsen, 92, is arguably Australia’s…
Too much of nothing
In the world of the arts, some things keep on even in this time of impossibility which the virus has…
Josh Frydenberg
There has been a fair bit of bleating from sectors claiming to have been ignored in the Budget; in fact…
Aussie Life & Language
Simon Collins I have been wondering what whale tastes like. There must be quite a few Australians who know. After…
High life
New York New York, New York, once a wonderful town/ The people are crap and the mayor’s a clown/ The…
Real life
‘I can’t put it off any longer. She’s dying and I don’t think I can ignore the inevitable. We’ve got…
Low life
‘Yes, I will have a coffee,’ said the van driver. He’d driven down to the south of France from Devon.…
Dear Mary
Q. A year ago we sent out 150 save-the-date notices for our wedding this December. We are still going ahead,…
Lockdown sceptics are following the science
You probably haven’t heard of the Great Barrington Declaration. This is a petition started by three scientists on 4 October…
