Andrew L. Urban

The low-down on the legal profession

24 March 2025 12:00 pm

Sydney’s Macquarie Law School is attracting public criticism for compelling law students to include Acknowledgment of Country (a form of…

Electric shock: it’s much worse than you think

21 March 2025 11:49 am

Startled, I stared at my electricity bill. My consumption over the quarter had decreased by 4.62 per cent. The bill,…

No answer on the apocalypse that never was

17 March 2025 5:52 pm

They’ve had over 30 years to show us the metaphorical climate change money. Over 30 years to respond to the…

Don’t fall for Putin’s Nato furphy

13 February 2025 12:00 pm

As Trump and Putin spend over an hour on the phone today (Feb. 13 as I write) to talk potential…

Hamas and Putin

6 February 2025 11:31 pm

A two-state solution? Been there done that. Israel was state one, Gaza was state two. Gaza was under the armed…

I know the antidote, Douglas

5 February 2025 3:00 pm

I had just finished watching the Netflix series, Lioness, the other day when I read your lament, Douglas Murray, in…

Bowen’s sabotage

28 January 2025 9:22 am

A bloke called Arthur from Camp Mountain, a community of less that 1,500 people some 20kms northwest of Brisbane, has…

Their god is not willing, Penny

8 January 2025 2:48 am

How many Palestinians does it take to change a light bulb? None! They sit in the dark forever and blame…

Positano, Amalfi coast, Italy

8 December 2024 7:13 am

The little motor boat with the red fish sign flying on what would have been a mast had it been…

Feral left goes Full Monty across the Anglosphere

26 November 2024 11:07 am

The left in the Anglosphere, rather feral these days, has gone Full Monty. In the UK, Prime Minister Sir Keir…

Labor’s 30 pieces of voting silver

23 November 2024 6:44 pm

The Jew with the bloodied torso was being brutalised, lashed, and abused. I was seated in row B of the…

The West shrugs at North Korean troops in Europe

12 November 2024 7:44 am

North Korean troops sent to fight alongside Russians in its invasion of Ukraine has been met with what looks like…

Opposition’s chance to Trump Net Zero

11 November 2024 9:37 am

There will be a narrow window of opportunity between the Presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025 and the next Australian…

Triumph v Karma-la – the second coming

7 November 2024 9:17 am

The problem for the Democrats is not that they’re out of touch, as everyone is saying in election postmortems. Their…

Will this election Make America Cheat Again?

31 October 2024 7:56 pm

‘Who could imagine that Kamala has any support … are Americans asleep?’ Or so read the text message from a…

Painted into the climate change corner

28 October 2024 1:00 am

While Anthony Albanese welcomed the King, warming to climate action the other day in Samoa, I was enjoying a BBQ…

Obama’s campaign: something old, something new

14 October 2024 3:37 pm

Did you see Barack Obama lamenting to a group of black Americans that Kamala Harris is not enjoying the enthusiastic…

Labor’s assumption is a miscalculation

8 October 2024 4:20 am

‘It’s worrying…’ is how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed his concern at terrorist sympathisers marching in Melbourne and Sydney streets,…

Ignorance is bliss – indeed, a prerequisite

2 October 2024 1:05 am

Every day is International Ignorance Day. It marks ignorance among the population as well as ignorance among the political, bureaucratic…

Nato to admit Ukraine … tomorrow

25 September 2024 7:22 am

An irresistible force is keeping Ukraine’s membership of Nato infuriatingly out of reach. Everyone, not least Ukraine, wants to see…

Wanted: a leader to change the world

21 September 2024 9:10 pm

Net Zero is the fly in Dutton’s ointment

Memo to Putin: you are the criminal, stop lecturing Nato

16 September 2024 3:23 pm

It’s crazy strange to see violent criminals getting upset with defenders and the police, wanting to direct their actions. Don’t…

Trapped in a climate sleight of hand

2 September 2024 2:00 am

The trap that won’t let go… As Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen takes climate alarm zealotry to 12…

Is Kamala Harris’ future burdened by her past?

25 July 2024 10:06 pm

Integrity goes to character. Does Kamala Harris pass this test? It is a key question now she is the Democrats’…

A bone to pick with Biden

21 July 2024 4:50 pm

Permit me a timely if controversial ‘dog with a bone’ essay, in which I play the dog. Here’s the bone:…