Hats off to Laurence Fox
From the moment I started criticising the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis people have been urging me to start…
Viva España
It had been a long and no doubt fractious sea voyage. The crew would have signed up for a variety…
Policeman’s Notebook
There’s no such thing as a typical week in policing and this last one was no different. It started on…
The road to new realities
Here’s the quandary. How in future can we make the kind of rapid advances we have made during the Covid…
What ho
In the First Act of Othello, just as things are getting interesting, the audience hears someone calling from offstage: ‘What…
Trump’s enemies badly want him to survive coronavirus
President Trump is being helicoptered to Walter Reed Hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. The media are following the story closely…
The real reason for Pope Francis’s disgraceful Pompeo snub
Why did Pope Francis refuse to meet Secretary Pompeo in Rome this week? The obvious answer is that he didn’t…
Johnson turns up pressure on EU for a deal
Hopes of agreeing a Brexit deal have increased among ministers in recent weeks, but today the UK’s chief negotiator Sir David Frost offered…
Trump campaign urges staffers exposed to COVID to self-quarantine
Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien sent an email to staff on Friday after President Trump’s positive COVID test, urging them…
Covid conspiracies and the new anti-Semitism
Britain’s Jewish community has been hit hard by Covid-19. Three more British Jews were laid to rest last week after dying from coronavirus, the…
On Russia, the EU should learn from the Baltics
When is the EU going to take action against Belarus, the Soviet dictatorship crumbling away on its eastern edge? Dominic Raab…
When a president gets sick
President William Henry Harrison died, famously, after giving the longest inauguration speech in history. On a bitterly cold winter day…
When will Harry and Meghan stop hectoring us?
Another day, another Zoom missive from the Duke and Duchess of Woke. Hot on the heels of their thinly-veiled intervention…
Donald Trump tests positive for Covid-19
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19. The President and first lady underwent testing…
Wanted: a vaccine against irrational COVID-19 thinking
The announcement the Federal Government is investing in the development of three new COVID-19 vaccines is welcome news for those…
Trump’s right, the US election could easily be rigged
In the furore over Trump’s bid to fill the vacant Supreme Court slot, commentators have pointed out that his nominee’s…
Budget 2020: stand by for upheaval in the corporate sector – even with insolvency reform
I first wrote about the impending insolvency deluge on July 7. Back then the commentariat was focused on Victoria’s fresh…
Is this the narcissism epidemic?
Spare a thought for the Instagram influencers and social media mavens of Victoria: they haven’t been recognised in public for, like,…
Reading, writing – and gender studies
Let’s play a game of spot the odd one out and see how you go. New South Wales Greens Senator…
Government has never been so big – and yet so incompetent
In the history of Australia, never has government been so big and yet so incompetent in dealing with the problems…
Peter Ridd: Queensland public and farmers treated with contempt by science institutions over the reef
Our Australian Reef science organisations had a hard time at the Senate Inquiry into the effects of agriculture on the…
Will the economy recover enough to help Trump win?
It’s rather difficult to dissect or analyze policy areas from last night’s horrendous debate. But Freddy Gray and I attempt…
