Extinction Rebellion: prepare for “mass civil disobedience”
Extremist, hard-left activists haven’t been wasting their lockdown. Instead, they’ve been celebrating the destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs,…
Why Iran meddled in Scotland’s independence referendum
The news that Iran interfered in the Scottish independence referendum is not terribly surprising. The Islamic Republic, along with Russia…
The biggest issue with COVIDSafe: incompetence
The COVID-19 tracing application may look like a targeted and temporary solution, but history shows that privacy incursions are typically…
Things You Can Do Under Lockdown: The answers
1. Ewes Sew Shell Mead Ear 2. Watch the Grate S Cape on Tea V 3. Organ Eyes a U…
Revealed: the true cost of our stimulus spending
Relative to GDP Australian government spending to address COVID-19 has been among the highest in the world. The Morrison…
Hiding Biden is the best way to get him elected
So Mrs American Voter, which septuagenarian sex abuser do you want to be President? The whole ‘#MeToo’ business probably should…
Flattening the curve of the suicide pandemic
With much of the world in semi or complete lockdown due to coronavirus, the effects on mental health and suicide…
Does COVID-19 mean socialism or social collapse?
Inequality is the price we pay for civilization. Property rights, inheritance customs and unequal gains from technological innovation have long…
Will churches open their doors as lockdown eases?
The grumbling of high church clergy should now lessen a bit. They were complaining, in some cases furiously, about the…
Neil Ferguson has finally gladdened the nation
When I first heard that Neil Ferguson, the Government’s Covid adviser, had had to resign, I thought the BBC broadcast…
Is it ‘speculation’ to say the UK has the most deaths in Europe?
It’s a grim news week for the government with Dominic Raab announcing in Tuesday’s press conference that the UK coronavirus death toll…
Does lockdown really decrease Covid deaths?
It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes –…
The 2020 question: which candidate will stand up to China?
Imagine you are in your late thirties living in Ohio working at a steel or other manufacturing plant in the…
Coronavirus has exposed Iran’s rotten republic
If coronavirus has taught us anything it’s that if you really want to understand something of a state’s essential character,…
Neil Ferguson’s remarkable fall from grace
I originally had Neil Ferguson down as a kind of Henry Kissinger figure. The professor of mathematical biology at Imperial…
The end of common sense
Let’s talk about common sense. Better still, let’s not. Instead, let’s delete the phrase from our vocabulary. Common sense in the…
The Eden-Monaro mess throws Labor a lifeline
Less than 24 hours ago it looked increasingly likely that the Coalition might pull off a historic victory in Eden-Monaro,…
Do antibodies deliver immunity to coronavirus?
Assume an alert flashes on your NHSX Covid-19 tracking app that you’ve been in contact with someone who has the…
Beef and lamb go down better than bats
Number three in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…
More of those grants – just like Snarling Clementine’s
Quelle surprise. It appears that Snarling Clementine jumped the gun when she took to Twitter to tell the world that…
If the NeverTrumpers are so insignificant, why is Trump so fixated on them?
By George! After numerous attempts to provoke President Trump, George Conway, husband of Kellyanne, managed to elicit a series of…
Does business have the courage to confront China?
When Andrew Forrest got up and introduced a Chinese official to an Australian press conference, I was gobsmacked at the…
Lockdown is over. Someone tell the government
The coronavirus shutdown is over by public demand. There are crowds of sunbathers in the parks of New York City…
Why the NHS contact tracing app could be dead on arrival
Today the Isle of Wight becomes the nation’s Petri dish – the first place to try the NHS’s Covid-19 contact-tracing…
A German court has plunged the eurozone into fresh crisis
An epidemic has been raging across the continent. The economy is in lockdown, and GDP is in freefall. But, hey,…
