Trump’s Art of the Executive Order
The Executive Order is political weakness at its most powerful. The spectacle of Donald Trump adding his Sharpie-stroke to the…
Britain isn’t racist
In the last few months we’ve been told that Britain is a fundamentally racist society, that the colour of your…
Britain: summer flu is now more deadly than Covid
Britain is, of course, in the middle of a deadly pandemic of a novel infectious disease. It’s just that it…
How dangerous is Covid? A Swedish doctor’s perspective
I want to preface this article by stating that it is entirely anecdotal and based on my experience working as…
Can Taiwan pull off its China gamble?
When Alex Azar, the US health secretary, arrived in Taipei on Sunday, he became the highest-ranking US official to visit…
The National Black Hole Network
Perhaps thinking he was helping to promote the financial strength of the NBN, Tony Boyd noted in the Australian Financial…
We can still have a V-shaped corona recovery. Here’s how
The shutdown in Victoria is devastating the state economy retarding the national recovery. The data on which a picture actual…
A Sheean VC will right some of the wrong done to the Navy
If Teddy Sheean does receive a Victoria Cross, as the Prime Minister has recommended today, it will right a wrong…
Should Kamala Harris pay reparations?
What do Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Colin Powell, Sidney Poitier and Busta Rhymes have in common? And how are Beyoncé,…
Lebanon’s existential crisis
It had to happen. On Monday evening, just under a week after 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a…
No more canapés at Davos. Globalisation as we know it is over
Among other measures, Microsoft would ensure that all private data of TikTok’s American users is transferred to and remains in…
Joe Biden should debate
Why would a benevolent God deny us the prospect of a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump? As the…
Don’t hold your breath for an Ilhan Omar upset
Ilhan Omar haters have whipped themselves into a hopeful frenzy thinking the first Somali American woman to serve in Congress…
The UK’s incoherent Channel migrant strategy
I saw a little cloud no bigger than a man’s fist that was coming in from the sea, reported the…
How Covid spread in Sweden’s care homes
Why did Covid prove so lethal in care homes? Between 2 March and 12 June, there were 66,112 deaths of…
The BBC only has itself to blame for the licence fee mess
For an organisation that likes to be popular these are troubling times for the BBC. This month the Corporation started…
There is no ‘do no harm’ VP pick
If you’ve kept half an eye on the ‘who will it be?’ story that is the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nomination,…
How many years of life did lockdown save – or destroy?
It’s official – lockdown will eventually have a greater impact on our lives and health than Covid-19 itself. That, at…
Belarus’s regime is nearing collapse
It’s hard to believe Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko will retain his half-affectionate, half-exasperated nickname ‘Batka’ (Dad) after his re-election yesterday in…
Respect will never fade away
In the coming weeks, Australia will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. It seems only yesterday…
The Lib Dem paradox
Are the Lib Dems finished? It’s not the first time that question has been asked. In fact, it’s a fairly…
The superannuation skimmers
When it comes to sneaky and deceptive ways to separate citizens from their money, there is no better system than…
We’re not all in this together: the public, not the pols or pen-pushers, will bear the costs of lockdown
As Victoria is plunged back into lockdowns, with those in greater Melbourne facing unprecedented restrictions on their every move, the…
EXCLUSIVE: Go Fund… what, exactly?
When Angy Ngo, Editor-at-large at Post Millennial gave evidence to US Congress about Antifa on August 5, he shone a…
Since when was it the Press Council’s job to adjudicate on science? The APC’s stitch-up of Ian Plimer and attack on free speech
On November 21, 2019, The Australian published an article on its opinion pages and online titled; ‘Let’s Not Pollute minds…
