Energy prices? Stop throwing money into the wind and deregulate
Through an open and competitive energy market, Australian can achieve the holy energy trinity: cheap, clean, and reliable. In 2020,…
Good riddance to Yang — and Biden
Now that ‘entrepreneur’ Andrew Yang has ended his presidential campaign, can we all admit what a sad commentary on the…
Bernie wins New Hampshire — and Klobuchar replaces Warren as the race’s leading lady
Two big stories have emerged from New Hampshire. The first is not surprising: Bernie Sanders looks like he’ll win. The…
Elizabeth Warren’s trail of tears
Elizabeth Warren will soon be gone, a victim of her faux personality, her failure at identity politics, her badgering, eat-your-spinach…
Social media’s scorpion culture
The human experiment that has been hyper-connectivity facilitated by social media platforms tends to confirm Sartre’s statement that hell is…
Why we should welcome a Sinn Fein government
There are those – most of my acquaintance in Ireland, frankly – who can think of nothing worse than Sinn…
Beware Sinn Fein’s Trojan horse
I got my first Irish passport a few months ago. It felt like a vaguely transgressive gesture because my primary…
The minister who politely refused to play the trans language game
This is an article about the power of language in the transgender debate, about how the trans agenda has been…
Drop the cash ban. Let’s keep legal tender legal
When does the end justify the means? One answer to that question comes in legislation currently snaking its way through the…
Will Mr Invisible destroy the Morrison government?
What a shemozzle. A week after the mad uncle, Barnaby Joyce, tilted unsuccessfully to snatch the National party leadership back…
Trump steals the Dems’ spotlight at New Hampshire rally
President Donald Trump successfully trolled Democrats once again Monday — hosting a packed rally the night before their New Hampshire…
2020 is a mirror image of 2016
A perfect storm enabled Donald Trump’s ascendance in the 2016 primary race, leading him to capture the Republican nomination and…
George Calombaris: now all too many of those underpaid workers will also soon be unemployed
I love eating out. I love good food, but I hate food wankery. I hate food fads. I hate the…
ScoMo might be stumbling, but Albo’s caught between two stools
It’s no secret that the Australian Labor Party is having elect-ile dysfunction problems. Since Paul Keating’s victory in 1993, the party has…
Boris’s leaked tax plans suggest a truly radical Toryism
‘You want the dowry, but you don’t like the bride’ is how Israeli prime minister Levi Eshkol summed up his…
Ireland’s election result is bad news for Brexit
Ireland has given its own twist to the populist uprisings across Europe, with its election ushering in a grim time…
Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscars speech was beyond a joke
The 2020 Oscars will go down in history for two things: Bong Joon-ho’s brilliant film Parasite becoming the first foreign-language…
The BBC has much to learn from Japan’s national broadcaster
NHK is Japan’s version of the BBC – it was actually modelled after the Beeb way back in the 1920s.…
And the Oscar for the most fatuous virtue signalling goes to…
Sometimes all you can do is let them speak — and say nothing in reply. Just one of the memorable…
Oscar-winning ‘Parasite’ reviewed
Bong Joon-ho's award-winning film is satire, thriller, comedy, allegory and horror all rolled into one
Want to help ScoMo win the next election? Join the Greens
So the Greens have heard of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Good for them. What they don’t appear to have…
Just what our schools need: Clementine Ford
Australian schools are struggling. Performance results are going backwards. In global terms, Australia is losing to Kazakhstan in the report…
Memo Canberra: stop your party games and get on with governing
A week is a long time in politics. Last week started with Bridget McKenzie becoming the Blockbuster Video of politics:…
Varadkar’s election gamble backfires as Sinn Fein surge
Irish election results are being counted and it seems that Leo Varadkar’s snap election gamble has worked out as badly…
How the rise of environmental politics is threatening traditional allegiances – and world trade
Some 172 years ago Karl Marx opened the modern era of politics in proclaiming that a spectre was haunting Europe.…
