Accidents waiting to happen
Humanity has come startlingly close to destroying itself in the 75 or so years in which it has had the…
Are you suffering from Elizabeth Warren Denial Syndrome?
Elizabeth Warren did not die in a tragic accident yesterday. But judging by the reactions of America’s journalists and academics,…
Coronavirus is Bernie Sanders’s running mate
Donald Trump claimed his response to the coronavirus could ‘help, not hurt’ him in the 2020 election, but Cockburn suspects…
Who knows all there is to know about the spying game?
It should come as no surprise ASIO revealed last week it had uncovered a “sleeper agent” running a spy ring.…
Sisters are doing it to themselves
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young found herself at the centre of a Twitterstorm yesterday after a report in the Nine chipwrappers…
Coronavirus: a political disease
Hong Kong. When I got to the pharmacy at 9 am, I realised there was no hope of getting a…
Elizabeth Warren’s rollercoaster presidential bid comes to an end
It was a long and winding rollercoaster ride for Elizabeth Warren on the presidential campaign trail. And when that ride…
Warren’s decision not to endorse a candidate is a kind of endorsement
She wanted to be the Tin Lizzie of the presidential race, chugging to victory as the champion of the middle-class.…
Warren stops persisting
Being president just wasn’t in Elizabeth Warren’s DNA. The New York Times’s favorite candidate has nevertheless stopped persisting. After finishing…
A short list of Biden backers who declared Trump mentally unfit for office
If there ever were a theme to emerge from the Trump era it is this: hypocrisy. We’re all guilty, we…
Watch: Boris struggles to say if he’ll change nappies
After a prolonged spell of avoiding media interviews, Boris Johnson finally came out of hiding today and appeared on breakfast television. The…
Is Boris Johnson serious enough to take on the coronavirus?
Boris Johnson’s handsome election victory was only three months ago, but already it feels like a relic from another age.…
We have a surplus, but it’s just been deployed against bushfire and coronavirus debt and deficit
Perhaps the best way to look at the budgetary effects of coronavirus is not that it has helped wipe out…
How the great toilet paper panic has made asses of us all
This afternoon, on the way back from the gym, I popped into my local Coles to get some fruit and…
Our selfish, shameless universities: bugger public health, we’ve got cash cows to milk
The full effects of the coronavirus outbreak are yet to be felt by Australia but already it has exposed the…
#MeToo media is insatiable
When #MeToo became a verb, we knew it wasn’t just the laws of grammar that had been twisted. Actor James…
Super Tuesday’s real winner was Donald Trump
Was I wrong, or only early? After Joe Biden’s win in the South Carolina primary, I wrote that his victory…
2020, the Year of the Drunken Uncle
How in the world did Chris Matthews get himself fired? To be sure, the man did stick his foot in…
Bye bye Bloomberg
‘I’m a believer in using data to inform decisions,’ Michael Bloomberg said in a statement as he ended his campaign.…
Is Joe Biden really a sure thing?
How quickly the campaigns of Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar — all billed as moderates — have assimilated…
Joe’s Super Thursday!
I met Joe Biden last month, after one of his town hall events in New Hampshire. His team had turned…
Could Joe Biden be the Hillary Clinton of 2020?
The 2020 struggle for the White House is shaping up to look a lot like the 2016 contest. Once more…
Will Japan ban its ‘offensive’ Rising Sun flag at the Tokyo Olympics?
Ant and Dec have done most things in their long careers in light entertainment. But the versatile duo broke new…
Dispirited Democrats rally behind zombie campaign on Super Tuesday
Joe Biden crawled ahead early in Tuesday night’s thrilling electric scooter race between two near-octogenarians, whereas of midnight Biden took…
The Democratic primary is now a two-man race between Biden and Bernie
With the votes still being accumulated and the final counts in California and Texas still to be determined, it’s a…
