Time to put the spotlight on Big Tech’s lobbyists
Big Tech, including Google, has spent an estimated $582m lobbying the United States Congress since 2005. Google has spent big…
The right stuff
No matter what the pundits say, no matter how the polls look, November’s presidential election is very much up for…
How to be right
Two broad camps divide American conservatism today: those who get it, and those who don’t — the woke and unwoke,…
Could blood plasma be used to treat Covid-19?
What are we to make of the decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant emergency use…
The mob are turning into Trump’s useful idiots
Protesters have been setting fire to yet another American city today to tell us that black lives matter. This latest…
Another supercilious superannuation superimposition
Here’s a little nugget that the superannuation ticket clippers won’t tell you. Early Covid related superannuation withdrawals come with a…
The Greens admit: we’re washed up
Knifed Greens leader Richard Di Natale makes his valedictory speech in the Senate this week so, naturally, the party that…
Why is it safe to mock some women in politics?
South Australian Liberal Nicolle Flint caused a stir on social media at the end of last month when she released…
White Comcars reflect our colonial past? Really?
The 6 Series GT BMW cars that replaced the taxpayer-funded Comcar fleet made up of Holden Caprices are being withdrawn from…
The class of Covid-19
While coronavirus poses a deadly threat to older people, it is young Australians who will take the heaviest hit from…
Big Super: the big unions’ big ripoff
Never has there been a more appropriate time to fix Australia’s antiquated superannuation system. The COVID-19 crisis has thrown the…
Why isn’t Joe Biden being tested for COVID-19?
Joe Biden has faced questions on his mental and physical acuity throughout his presidential bid. For example, he first said…
Lockdown or lectures from leftist luvvies? It’s hard to tell what’s worse
Not content with locking citizens in their homes and destroying their livelihoods, the Victorian Government has now employed television’s most…
Scots poll in favour of free expression
The SNP’s determination to push on with its draconian Hate Crime Bill has put it on the wrong side of…
Leon Trotsky, sex symbol
In a very recent article the very learned journalist, Douglas Murray, enquired (almost rhetorically) why there were people today who called themselves…
Chairman Dan’s cure for COVID-19? Waleed Aly
Life in Victoria right now is a sad, bleak shadow of its former self. Businesses have closed their doors forever,…
The government needs to wean itself off tobacco tax
Albert Einstein pointed out the obvious when he said, “We can not solve our problems with the same level of…
Jake Auchincloss and incendiary rhetoric
I can’t claim to know what Jake Auchincloss was thinking when he asked, 10 years ago, why it was acceptable…
Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill would have a chilling effect on free speech
Among the encroachments on Milton’s three supreme liberties contained in Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Bill is a cloturing of the…
Who really wants to delegitimize the election result?
On Thursday afternoon, prior to the final night of the Democratic convention, four New York Times opinion columnists gathered to…
Vegans, your soya milk is killing the planet
In the popular imagination, veganism and environmentalism go hand-in-hand. Both are championed – often in one voice – by ultra-progressive…
Without Black Wednesday there would have been no Brexit
Last Sunday, BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion devoted 40 minutes to ‘Black Wednesday’, as our exit from the ERM was…
Pardon Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden says he didn’t mean to end up in Russia when he fled the United States to leak secrets…
New polling: Half of Brits think Scotland will break away
Boris Johnson is desperate to avoid becoming the prime minister who oversees the break-up of the Union, yet it appears many…
The granddad speech
CNN is saying the Biden speech proves he isn’t an old man, even though anyone with elderly parents would recognize…
