New Zealand’s carbon sequestration problem
Ongoing concern about climate change has fuelled debate about the part carbon sequestration might play in reducing New Zealand’s net…
Recognising ignorance
In March this year, Treasurer Jim Chalmers asked the Productivity Commission (PC) to assess competition-enhancing reform options to reinvigorate the…
The Global Peace Summit hurt Ukraine
Neighbours from all over gathered after a violent house invasion and wrung their hands. There were 90 of them. They…
Dutton opens debate on the Paris Climate Agreement
According to certain sections of the media and the federal government, Peter Dutton’s commitment to scrapping Australia’s unachievable 2030 emissions…
Trussonomics is featuring heavily in the election
Is Trussonomics making a comeback? That’s the suggestion today, as Jeremy Hunt was recorded on the campaign trail telling students that Liz…
Labour have treated Rosie Duffield terribly
Should a candidate feel forced to pull out of public hustings events because of concerns about their safety? No, of…
Farage threatens vetting company with legal action
Uh oh. After multiple reports of controversial candidates, Reform UK boss Nigel Farage has announced that he is threatening a…
Bannon behind bars
Former Trump administration aid, Steve Bannon, will serve a four-month prison sentence beginning in July. Bannon was charged as follows…
Will French voters be revolted by the new popular front?
The Nouveau Front Populaire has been formed to take on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the French legislative…
Why Kim Jong Un is rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin
When Vladimir Putin lands in Pyongyang today on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, it will be…
Kylian Mbappé’s veiled Le Pen warning won’t save Macron
France’s prime minister was out and about on Monday mixing with the proles south of Paris. ‘I’m going to shake…
London can thank Macron for becoming Europe’s largest stock market
When Paris overtook London as the continent’s largest stock market two years ago, it was widely seen as a significant…
Starmer flounders on phone-in over private schools and Corbyn
With only 16 days to go until the election – and today being the last day you can register to…
Trump’s crush on Debra Messing
Long before he called Taylor Swift “unusually beautiful,” it was Debra Messing who had Trump utterly entranced. According to a…
How the Scottish Tories can survive
‘The thing is,’ says one Conservative member of the Scottish parliament, ‘that we wanted rid of him – just not…
In praise of Nigel Farage’s war on banks
Why did it take Nigel Farage to suggest clawing back some of the super profits pocketed recently by British banks?…
Should ‘Dictator Dan’ keep his Order of Australia?
A petition has been launched by the Leader of the Victorian Nationals to strip former Premier Daniel Andrews of his…
Labour shouldn’t squander the chance to fix council tax
In the final election push, the Tories are trying to drag the Labour party into a game of taxation whack-a-mole.…
In defence of hereditary peers
‘Hereditary peers remain indefensible,’ says Labour’s manifesto. The party plans to rectify this issue by ‘introducing legislation to remove the…
We’ll never find the heir to Blair
The ghost of 1997 haunts the 2024 election. The defining image of this year’s contest, barring any major upsets over…
What a pleasure to see Belgium blow it again
Ok, so I’m partisan, granted. This was a game between my favourite mainland European country and the continent’s noisome, jihadi-replete,…
Who can right the RNC ship?
It was September of 2014 and Republicans were very nervous. A new poll showed Kansas senator Pat Roberts trailing his…
‘Justice’ and the fall of a republic
“What happens now?” The question flooded my inbox and what used to be called the Twittersphere. Why? Because shortly after…
Antony Blinken embodies decades of failure
There is no sign marking the entrance to Barman Dictat. The bar under 44 Khreshchatyk Street in Kyiv boasts the…
The American Ornithological Society’s war on the past
Say you’re easing along a meadow stream, upslope but not steep, somewhere in the Rockies. It’s a morning in spring,…
