Is living without risk really living at all?
Taking my life in my hands — as we all do when getting out of bed — I walked along…
Real life
We arrived at the country store with only three minutes to closing time so our chances of scoring horse wormer…
Band names
You wouldn’t have thought that Starbucks’s pricing policy could influence rock history, but that’s what happened. In the early 1990s,…
The turf
Horseracing in Britain, which was suspended by coronavirus on 18 March, is due, as I write, to resume on Monday…
Low life
When I first came to this village, I was told that one of the bars was a ‘communist’ bar and…
Trump severs ties with World Health Organization
President Trump is cutting all US funding to the World Health Organization as of Friday afternoon. ‘China has total control…
Where is the law and order President?
Donald Trump announced on Twitter this morning that the National Guard is standing by in Minneapolis. The Guard is ready…
Amy Klobuchar’s VP prospects are over
Move over, Kamala — there’s a new bad sheriff in town. After the death of George Floyd at the hands…
What the fury about Cummings’s road trip is really about
Is Durhamgate over now? It must be. Surely. With a simmering revolt in Hong Kong, riots in Minneapolis, heightened border…
Can Germany spend its way out of the corona crisis?
Coronavirus is grim news for all major economies and Germany is no exception. The country’s economic output decreased by 2.2…
Twitter spreads riot porn — but censors a President vowing to restore law and order
If you have been following the Minneapolis riots on Twitter or Facebook, you may have come across an edgy new…
And in news just in from the People’s Republic of Victoria…
Dissidents in the PRV have released advance drafts of a letter, written by Chairman Andrews to President Xi, to celebrate…
Trump vs Twitter: the battle begins
When Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter in the UK, described the company as the ‘free speech wing of the…
Reconciliation means shared ways forward
Reconciliation Week logically throws up the question of ways forward for Indigenous Australians to address disadvantage and the attendant problems…
The NRL scores for corona common sense
It has been a David and Goliath battle for one man battling to ensure his sporting code’s survival and indeed last…
Did any Americans actually inject disinfectant after Trump suggested it?
There’s been no shortage of outrage from the press during the coronavirus pandemic. One of the more notable meltdowns came…
Facebook is right. Twitter is wrong
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey opened up a Pandora’s box two days ago by dropping a fact-check on a tweet by…
China is desperate to crush the Tiananmen spirit
Next week’s anniversary 0f the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen massacre is generating deep concerns in Beijing — hence its lashing…
The good and bad news about coronavirus
Finally we are getting a clue to the most vital statistic of the Covid-19 epidemic: how many people in Britain…
The UK is preparing for a major Huawei U-turn
The UK has made a strategic choice to get ‘off the trajectory of ever-increasing dependence’ on China, I revealin the…
Will Boris Johnson stand with Hong Kong?
Hong Kong, ‘Asia’s World City’, is becoming a place where legislators fear that they could face years in prison for…
In the navy, you can do gender studies; in the navy, learn ’bout feminist theories…
The Australian Defence Force is calling for military personnel to go on a $12,000 Gender Peace and Security course ……
Revealed: 10 universities sought to strike academic freedom from job contracts after the first Peter Ridd case
Michael McNally, QLD Division Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union, speaks to Gideon Rozner on The Heretic podcast about…
Daniel Andrews says he’ll return all liberties lost to coronavirus. Promise.
The liberties of Victorians are now more restricted than we have ever seen. And the Victorian Government is spending more…
How China is dehumanising democrats in Hong Kong
As the crackdown against pro-democracy protestors and voices of dissent in Hong Kong have become more violent and intense, we…
