Will coronavirus lead to a US war with Iran?
In a roundabout way, coronavirus may have been responsible for the deaths of two American service personnel and a British…
Queensland Labor’s chequebook gerrymander
The LNP are entering this year’s Queensland’s state election with more than one hand tied behind their back. Labor’s chequebook…
The cabinet coronavirus crisis
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has tested positive to coronavirus. The left, naturally, are squealing with delight in their Twitter…
How we’ve panicked ourselves into global recession – with all the health issues that will bring
Entire countries in lockdown, travel banned, events cancelled and now the Australian Formula One Grand Prix shut down all in…
The very last thing we need is radical Reserve Bank action
The Reserve Bank of Australia has used the coronavirus threat to accelerate its move toward radical monetary policy. To prevent…
EXCLUSIVE: Karlie Kloss’s dad helps Jared with coronavirus ‘research’
Jared Kushner has a lot on his plate. The White House senior adviser was tasked this week with conducting research…
Forget confetti money. What about creating real jobs?
Governments seek to revive “the economy” by scattering gifts of our own money wrapped in red tape. This encourages immediate…
Why Britain isn’t opting for a coronavirus lockdown
In a sombre news conference in Downing Street, Boris Johnson has warned that coronavirus is causing the ‘worst public health…
Why prime ministers should read
Last November, Alexander Larman’s Spectator piece on Gladstone’s Library brought to readers’ attention one of the most important features of…
The price we’ll pay for halting coronavirus
As I have repeatedly mentioned, the view of the chief medical officer Chris Whitty, which has shaped the Government’s response…
The antidote to virus panic is in the hands of entrepreneurs
It’s a ghost town,’ said the officer manning the body scanner at Manchester airport — Manchester, New Hampshire, that is,…
COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda
The president delivered an address last night about the Wuhan flu, aka novel coronavirus, aka (if you want to sound…
Washington is furious at Boris’s Huawei bid
Boris Johnson faced his first major rebellion of the new parliament on Tuesday. Parliamentarians are waking up to the fact…
A coronavirus Olympics cancellation would be a disaster for Japan
It is fair to say that preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have not being going to plan. In fact,…
Harvey Weinstein’s scalp is a victory for justice, not #MeToo
He didn’t testify in his own defence during the trial, but moments before Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years…
Trump cannot defeat a virus
There are no atheists in foxholes, and no libertarians in a pandemic. As the spread of the COVID-19 virus in…
Sacrificial Lambies
The Federal Government’s National Commission for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (NCDVSP) is exhibiting all the signs of an impending…
Why has coronavirus not closed parliament?
Why hasn’t parliament been closed after Health minister Nadine Dorries contracted coronavirus? Why isn’t the government demanding the cancellation of…
The coronavirus stimulus package: not just another trip down the Swanee?
We have mixed messages on coronavirus: Angela Merkel has said 60-70 per cent of Germans will contract the disease, while the latest data from…
Coronavirus’s first victim? Money
The first victim of war, they say, is truth. The first victim of coronavirus, by contrast, is fiscal discipline. Yesterday,…
How the UN continues to defend dictators – all in the name of human rights
This year, Venezuela sits on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite the egregious human rights violations committed under Nicolas…
Biden vs Trump: may the craziest man win!
‘We are the United States of Amnesia,’ said Gore Vidal in 2004. These days, it’s more the United States of…
The circular failing Squad
The history of socialism being one of high hopes and rude repudiations, everyone could see that Bernie Sanders was about…
What the Budget tells us about Boris Johnson’s Tories
The most remarkable element of that Budget was a Tory Chancellor standing at the despatch box saying that people had…
The great Tory Budget giveaway
It’s always tempting for governments to respond to economic trouble with a debt-fuelled spending splurge, but it’s a notoriously blunt…
