Why are we so sniffy about the Russian vaccine?
It didn’t help that it was unveiled by a swaggering Vladimir Putin. Or that it was called Sputnik V –…
Finally, systemic racism in the maternity ward has been brought to public attention
Last Ship, Nightflyers and Queen & Slim star Jodie Turner-Smith gave birth at home rather than in a hospital because…
The hidden costs of Covid
We do not know what the long-term impact of coronavirus will be on mental health. We are still not through…
Why not let vets carry out euthanasia? Another day at the office and all that…
There were a lot of happy people mid-July when Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission announced another investigation into the actions…
A new pragmatism, not old dogma, is needed to tackle economic corona catastrophe
Startling figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics give us a taste of the poison that is COVID-19 on our…
We’ve only just begun…
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Fresh off the email from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: Labour Force, Australia, July 2020.…
Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
Seattle So the revolution devours its children. On Tuesday, Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best announced her retirement just hours after…
Kamala chameleon
Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…
Will Victoria’s quarantine disaster see ministers – or their bureaucrats – in the dock?
It’s hard for Victorians not to be angry over the Covid-19 crisis. You can almost feel the widespread fury directed…
A statistical tweak has just cut England’s Covid death toll by 5,000
Public Health England has changed its definition of deaths. The new definition is now death in a person with a…
Cuomo’s nursing home death blame game
A major Associated Press report this week dove into New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death count and found the numbers…
The war for your mind
The romantic plans of a Kazakh bodybuilder named Yuri Tolochko have become one more casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. He…
The case for a new Act of Union
Scexit, not Brexit, will be the word that defines Boris Johnson’s premiership. The Times has a new poll from YouGov…
Spare us Ben & Jerry’s lecture on the Channel migrant crisis
Multi-millionaire virtue-signallers Ben and Jerry are at it again. Once again the ice-cream capitalists are doing their woke schtick in…
Could mass testing for Covid-19 do more harm than good?
Making a diagnosis used to be a well understood and practised procedure: take a history from someone presenting with symptoms,…
Was the ‘pee tape’ a lie all along?
Sir Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, famously said that at times she’d felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through…
Bleak thoughts from Bleak City
I was with the best minds of my generation – chartered accountants, real estate agents, Instagram influencers living off the…
The mysterious fall of the teenage pregnancy
Across the globe, teenage pregnancy rates have been falling for at least the last 10 years but social scientists still…
How our aged care system robs the elderly
Is this on a scale of how low do you go? So there is a new virus doing the rounds.…
Will it be Biden-Harris or Harris-Biden?
News of Kamala Harris’s selection as Joe Biden’s running mate was greeted by everything but the popping of champagne corks…
President Kamala, mistress of puppets?
So, will it be President Kamala Harris after all? You might think so. After all, whoever Joe Biden’s ventriloquist is…
Kamala Harris ticks all Biden’s boxes
With his selection of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden bowed time the inevitable. Harris ticks all the boxes — Bay Area…
Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate
In a rare win for the police, Joe Biden has selected California senator Kamala Harris to join him on the…
Ronald Reagan’s words ring louder than ever: freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
Living in a democracy has responsibilities. Acceptance of different ideas and the right for people to have opposing views is one…
Donald Trump isn’t mad
It is alarming how psychiatric diagnoses have crept into the political commentary. Donald Trump, we’ve been told, has narcissistic personality…
