No bread, no heat, no hope: Life in Lebanon after the Beirut blast
Once again, crisis comes to Lebanon. Once again, people are dying young in the Middle East. Last night an explosion…
Has Sweden been vindicated?
Sweden has released growth figures for the second quarter – a contraction of 8.6 per cent – and two narratives…
President Trump should bend — but not break — Big Tech
Americans’ increasing focus on this fall’s elections has awakened in me a tinge of nostalgia for the good old days…
Trump’s Burkean moment
President Trump surprised some on Saturday when he shared a video from Business Insider explaining that billionaires have amassed half-a-trillion…
Tobacco companies must wonder: with enemies like Big Public Health, who needs friends?
There is a public health issue you would have heard very little about that could be far more important to…
Has Trump’s Covid-19 response really been so dire?
The sight of Donald Trump fumbling with charts during his interview on HBO this Monday has provided much ammunition for…
Should a coronavirus vaccine be compulsory?
The mandatory introduction of face masks in shops and a ban on families and friends from different households meeting in…
Quarantine is for the sick
Healthy Australians have been forced into various stages of lockdown since 21 March: four and a half months ago. At…
Jim’s Mowing, ABC moaning
If you continue to work – even safely – during the Victorian lockdown you are irresponsible, according to ABC journalists…
How much worse can things get for Lebanon?
Just before Twitter started firing out messages about a ‘bomb’ in Beirut, our cleaner rang us in tears, shaking, telling…
War metaphor won’t defeat pandemic
The use of metaphors as a way to frame problems or issues has a dramatic impact on the way the…
The new holy trinity for schools and universities: gender, race and class
George Orwell is quoted as saying “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them”. The cultural left’s campaign…
Try doing the daggy dad, not dictator, Dan
We are currently undertaking something of an experiment in the limits of political authority and leadership. This is especially true…
Can tourism subsidies save Japan’s coronavirus-blighted economy?
In a striking contrast of priorities, as the UK government offers discounted fast food vouchers to revitalise the restaurant and…
The US is right to rethink its relationship with China
Anyone who has worked in an office has fantasised about destroying it. As someone who has taken a sledgehammer to…
Why ‘progressives’ love to hate Rosie Duffield
There can be a hallucinatory quality to the progressive mind, a tendency to see enemies in allies and demons in…
Wearing a mask is good manners
Early on in lockdown, I was picking up my daily paper and was confronted by someone who had contrived his…
Juan Carlos’ exile may not save the Spanish monarchy
In the ‘bad bank’ model, a bank protects itself by dumping its toxic assets onto a second, newly-created institution. By…
If Peter Ridd loses, academic freedom in Australia is dead
Scott Morrison once stated that he was unconcerned about ongoing attacks on free speech, because he thought that free speech…
When you view all of life through the prism of offence, you’ll find offence in every fridge in the supermarket
The Indigenous activist who forced Coon Cheese out of Australian fridges now wants Paul’s to stop producing “Smarter White Milk”…
Fear is in the Melbourne air; not just of the virus, but of continuing incompetence by the Andrews government
Having lived in Melbourne all my life, I’m picking up that this Melbourne COVID-19 deep lockdown has induced fear. Fear…
We might have a pandemic on our hands, but we still also have the rule of law
I happened to switch on the telly at the start of the week just in time for Annelise Nielsen’s interview…
Where the Arlington sidewalk ends
Watch out, Gretchen Whitmer! The queen of draconian and idiotic coronavirus restrictions is getting a run for her money thanks…
Why the woke war against women?
Just when you think the world cannot get any sillier, it does. The American Cancer Society is now recommending that…
The media’s TikTok blindspot
We learned about journalists this past weekend. Specifically, we learned about tech journalists who aren’t particularly interested reporting or analyzing…
