Coronavirus lockdowns are cowardice
This is a piece about death. Obviously death is a serious topic, perhaps as serious as anything you could possibly…
I tried to warn the National Security Council about China — and was fired for it
The societal implications of 5G — on how we live and how we work — are truly mind-boggling. And so…
Stanford study suggests Covid infections are 50 to 85 times more than confirmed cases
Another day, and yet more evidence has appeared that could indicate the number of people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the…
Macron talks grandly about Europe – and then cuts a deal with Germany
Emmanuel Macron is, for all his carefully polished image as a radical moderniser (and with the possible exception of not…
Five measures that could prevent future lockdowns
That the World Health Organisation hasn’t exactly shone in the coronavirus crisis is now well-documented. It should remind us of…
Why is the New York Times shilling for the World Health Organization?
Donald Trump announced this week he intends to halt funding for the World Health Organization over the group’s suspicious relationship…
The scientists are now running the country
What we learned on Thursday is that, at least while the Prime Minister is convalescing, the boffins of the government’s…
The ABC has vanished up its own…
No! No! No! Not now. Things are bad enough already. It’s too early to start drinking. But no. The dumbed-down,…
Tackling coronavirus risks head on is the only way forward for business
Our major football codes are the canaries in the coal mine for hundreds of industries desperate to restart as soon…
Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull?
Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull? Contemporaries have had to suffer throughout their lives the intermittent…
Trump walks the recovery tightrope
President Trump’s decision to set the United States back on the path to work will be decried as mere politics,…
Who are the real corona racists?
The threat of coronavirus has Australian officials inventing new and contradictory authoritarian laws daily — and they’re backed by the…
It’s voter suppression time, again — this time it’s pandemic!
Is Trump a reckless idiot who didn’t take the coronavirus seriously and thus endangered hundreds of thousands of lives? Or…
The dangers of comparing different countries’ death rates
Using differences in coronavirus death rates between countries to draw out policy conclusions is becoming a very popular pastime. Unfortunately,…
Leaked US document suggests Covid may be less lethal but more widespread
Have we been vastly underestimating the number of people who have been infected with Covid-19 and correspondingly overestimating its mortality? No…
What’s going to happen to Generation Lockdown?
Imagine for a moment that you are a parent and someone knocks on your front door with a proposition. The…
There’s a ghost in my house
There’s a ghost in my house. Or there’s going to be. A miserable ghost. And you can also have one…
The reforms a post-corona government needs to make
The government is reluctant to start talking about life after the lockdown for fear of diluting its social distancing message,…
Tracking a pandemic: an unacceptable invasion of privacy
The federal government’s plan to use a voluntary tracking app to monitor our movements – in an attempt to stem…
Who owns WHO?
Australia is a nation of 9.2 million households — a nation that has been duped by a deceptive World Health…
Who will win the corona wars?
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. The Covid-19 pandemic came along just as…
Does the Morrison government have the skills to lead us out of the recession it has created?
The $320 billion in costs the Australian government has incurred to sustain and stimulate the economy in light of the…
We don’t let winter flu stop the nation. Why are we doing it now?
We are facing an existential threat to the nation and our way of life, not from the Chinese COVID-19 virus,…
The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis
Coronavirus, we have been warned many times, has brought scammers out in force. But lobbyists are not far behind. Their…
Remember why we put something away for a rainy day?
Paul Keating famously proclaimed when we hit the wall back in 1991 that it was the recession Australia had to…
