Boris’s ‘New Deal’ is nothing of the sort
The best thing I can say about Boris Johnson is that he’s not a real Tory. The Prime Minister belongs…
School of crock
I have always loved looking after children. Helping them to learn and grow over this important part of their lives…
The Kushner conundrum
After a string of broken promises, policy disappointments and sinking poll numbers, the populist wing of the Republican party knows…
Parlez-vous Parler?
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The big three of the social media phenomena that has swept the world since the early naughties have finally met their match.…
Eden-Monaro: why so little focus on a seat so significant for both leaders?
For all its reputation as a “bellwether seat” usually going with the government of the day, Eden-Monaro has not been…
Time to end the unions’ super scam
Sir Robert Menzies said in 1949, “The best people in this community are … those who by thrift and self-sacrifice,…
The poison of reparations
Reparations are a recipe for rancor. Under the guise of settling a grievance, they intensify and often eternalize it. They…
Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism
Dear fellow citizens, In the wake of the horrifying and brutal killing of George Floyd, many in the UK expressed…
Fashion designer vs former rapper: the 2020 election you need to follow
Ola Hawatmeh, the Republican nominee for New York’s 19th congressional district, doesn’t bring many surprises to the table policy-wise. She’s…
Does Boris’s ‘new deal’ offer anything new?
Today Boris Johnson launched his ‘new deal’ for Britain – billed as an economic recovery plan to follow the Covid…
Can antivirals defeat Covid-19?
Can antivirals help us defeat coronavirus? The odds don’t look good. The use of antiviral compounds against respiratory viruses has…
Should we be afraid of this new swine flu?
Imagine if a vaccine for Covid-19 was approved tomorrow, and that within weeks we had all been vaccinated. Would life…
Virgin’s Bain?
Last Friday, American private equity firm Bain Capital reached an agreement with Virgin Australia administrators Deloitte to purchase the dilapidated…
Power companies must decide: are they about virtue signalling or cheap, reliable energy?
Yesterday, The Australian reported dissent within the Australian Energy Council (AEC), the industry association that represents electricity generators. Of its 24…
Could Corbynites infiltrate the Lib Dems?
It’s funny how politics works. This time last year, the talk was of whether Labour moderates should leave their party…
What happens if the Leicester lockdown fails?
The government’s decision to lock Leicester down, closing all non-essential retail from today and schools from Thursday for all but…
So Albo’s safe from a Bill Shorten challenge – for now?
It’s fair to say that things are pretty awkward at the top of the ALP right now. Jim Chalmers is…
Memo AFL: do you play footy – or politics?
Australia is not a racist country and the Australian Football League should know better than to give its support to…
Is Bannon back?
Has the Trump campaign finally grown desperate enough to bring back Steve Bannon? The double whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Only a market-based, real-world, cost-benefit approach can prevent a great global corona depression
The coronavirus, the political risk event of our generation, will change many things. Not least of these is the sufferance…
Boris Johnson could quickly come unstuck
The Conservative party is no longer the party of the rich, while the Labour party is no longer the party…
How worried should we be about a second wave?
Now that we are two months past the peak of the UK coronavirus epidemic, many fear the emergence of a…
Syria’s nightmare is far from over
With the world’s attention focused on the ongoing fight against coronavirus, Syria’s conflict rumbles on. Hundreds of thousands have died.…
Was Covid with us long before anyone realised?
One of the mysteries of the Covid-19 crisis is how the disease seemed to bubble up out of nowhere in…
End of empire
The end of World War Two inaugurated the era of American dominion, with the United States politically, economically and militarily…
