Why we can’t just break up Big Tech
Yesterday was a historic day for Big Tech. For the first time, the CEOs of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple…
Trump’s election delay tweet smacks of desperation
Donald Trump’s tweet mooting an election delay isn’t a sign of strength but weakness. Maybe he’ll say it was just…
Trump’s troop move is a 21st-century strategy
Why should the United States prop up the defense of Germany, the richest country in Europe — and against Russia,…
Network Rail’s cowardly JK Rowling decision
I ❤ JK Rowling. There, now I’m a hate-monger, too. A digital advert reading just that — ‘I ❤ JK…
The rise of Dutch Euroscepticism
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has taken on the mantle of ‘Dr No’ across the capitals of Europe after he took a…
No, Trump can’t delay the election
While cries of ‘authoritarian dictator’ have been lobbied at the President by America’s progressives over the past three and a…
How priests were kept out of hospitals
Mary Wakefield’s piece in today’s magazine – How the Catholic Church betrayed the dying – is right and eloquent in…
How soon until we’re told that they’re the real victims?
It’s been the outrage story of the day, the tale of walking arguments against lip filler and botox Olivia Muranga…
Victoria has become a cautionary tale for Australia – and the world
With Victoria’s lockdown now in its 21st day, one would have thought after three weeks there would be some sign…
Tear gas Ted: the mayor manning Portland’s barricades
The federal courthouse in downtown Portland has become ground-zero for the nightly orgy of assaults, looting, arson, and public nudity…
The real Joe Biden: what would his presidency look like?
It is usually a bad idea for a presidential candidate to leave himself open to the accusation that he is…
Seven rules for migrants
Many of us move throughout our lives, some frequently. Sometimes we don’t have much choice about the timing or the…
A pyromaniac in a field of straw men
In 1936, in the preface to the German version of his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard…
Has the EU finally found its spine when it comes to China?
There is no point putting lipstick on a pig: the relationship between the United States and China, two powers holding…
Biden is not the president America needs
In a 2008 essay in the American Conservative, I encouraged my fellow conservatives to vote for Sen. Barack Obama in…
Will the speculative vaccine shopping spree ever end?
Somewhere, possibly in the land of big sheds, just off the M1 in Leicestershire, must be a burgeoning NHS surplus…
San Francisco in decay
District Attorney Chesa Boudin personifies everything that’s wrong with San Francisco: weak on drugs, weak on crime, weak on racist…
Another approach to shark attack
There is talk of a promising new solution to the shark problem. Using technology developed for commercial fishing, standard drum…
Jamie Oliver and the mad ad ban
There have been a great many political betrayals of late, but there is nothing worse than seeing the government propose…
China is a threat to our values, not just security
It took some time for Australia to work out for itself what it was. Once freed from the yoke of…
Priorities, priorities…
What’s a little virus with just 295 new cases today? Life, as well as death, goes on in Danandrewstan —…
Technology and the coming revolution in Australian politics
“In terms of crisis, people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.” — Albert Einstein, The World As…
Covid doesn’t care about your political theories
The President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, took some time out from presiding over the worst collapse in…
Olivia de Havilland’s Red Scare
Olivia de Havilland, who has died aged 104, will forever be remembered for the role of Melanie Hamilton in Gone…
The mock revolution of the elites
‘Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified,’…
