It isn’t necessarily the economy, stupid!
‘It’s the economy, stupid!’ With those now famous words, the Democratic strategist James Carville summarized the 1992 election between President…
Beware the Curse of Clem?
Media Week, May 17, 2019: In the first birthday week of 10 Daily, the editor of the Network 10 digital…
What on earth is wrong with having a Christian in the Lodge?
From the moment Pentecostal church-going Scott Morrison became Prime Minister his Christian faith has been the subject of hot debate.…
Revealed: ABC climate activism exposed by IPA FOI requests
As reported by Chris Kenny in The Australian today, over 300 pages of Freedom of Information documents obtained by free-market…
EXCLUSIVE: Extinction Rebellion’s surprise new best friend? The Australian Industry Group
You all know the old line “The capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with”. It’s attributed variously…
Jonathan Sumption: ‘You cannot imprison an entire population’
The current rationale for the lockdown is incoherent. The old rationale was: ‘you must spread the infections over a longer…
Sacking Alan Jones was never the end goal
Anyone who’s been paying attention to the foulest fringes of the culture wars knows that Alan Jones was never the…
Why did Justin Amash give up?
Three weeks after announcing his bid for the Libertarian party presidential nomination, Justin Amash has called it off. What went…
Sweden has pioneered an alternative to lockdown – and it works
Uppsala The culture of social distancing does strange things to us. A few weeks ago I got an invitation to…
The terrible ageism of our current lockdown
I’ve always thought western society was terribly ageist, and I don’t just mean ‘showbiz’ folk but across the board. Then…
Boris Johnson needs to admit his coronavirus mistakes
Be careful what you wish for. Over the past few years, a fair number of thoughtful Tories have included a…
My fears about the ‘new normal’
Perhaps there’s light at the end of the long lockdown tunnel. The roadmap at least allows hope that life might…
The Heretic: inside Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on climate change
‘The Heretic: Inside Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on Climate Change’ is a new serialised documentary podcast by…
The Seinfeld climate change debate
Irony is a wonderful thing. One year ago, thousands of misguided schoolchildren around the world hit the streets campaigning for climate change action, but…
Stimulus squabble marks a return to politics as usual
Who is the proposed new $3 trillion stimulus package designed to help? If enacted, the bill — which narrowly passed…
Do the experts believe in the R number?
The R-number has been declared the most important metric in monitoring Covid in Britain. For young children to return to school…
Kayleigh McEnany is winning the 2020 election
Well, isn’t she lovely? Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s new press secretary, is already winning the hearts and minds of locked-down males…
My positive antibody test is an ‘immunity passport’ in all but name
I wouldn’t say I felt I had joined a master race when my coronavirus ‘immunity passport’ arrived this week. But…
Covid’s knock-on effect on child deaths
The daily death toll has been a constant backdrop to the Covid-19 crisis. Would we ever have entered lockdown, would…
Extremists are going to thrive in the post-lockdown world
Throughout the lockdown I’ve been nagged by a persistent thought. As I sit indoors and read the news; as I…
Why are some people being repeatedly tested for coronavirus?
Testing, the government keeps telling us, is the way out of the coronavirus lockdown. Soon, the Prime Minister assured us…
Coughing fit
Well might the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg choke on his words in parliament when detailing the horrendous debt currently being imposed…
Latham’s law
Turnbull: Adam Bandt in a better suit The problem with reviewing Malcolm Turnbull’s book is where to begin. How about…
