Andrew L. Urban

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:…

Mainstream media is not long for this world

8 July 2024 2:30 am

So… Joe Biden identifies as a black woman? In his first radio interview in the wake of his disastrous debate…

Serves you right, Democrats

4 July 2024 8:52 am

Today’s Democrats are too stupid to be trusted with the powers of the Presidency. The dumbbell started ringing with Democrat-adjacent…

The (second) greatest mass delusion in history

30 June 2024 9:56 pm

The anthropogenic global warming scenario was launched 36 years ago this month, on June 23, 1988, in the US Senate…

Are Palestinians destined for eternal misery?

22 June 2024 2:30 pm

It was a sad, depressing sight; a Gazan man was leading a donkey-drawn cart along a dusty, broken Gazan street,…

The Global Peace Summit hurt Ukraine

19 June 2024 2:15 am

Neighbours from all over gathered after a violent house invasion and wrung their hands. There were 90 of them. They…

The polar bears are fine: PEA Club v The People

17 June 2024 2:00 am

The trigger for this article was a news report that I read over breakfast. It was a hit of déjà…

The Sneering Hubris Awards aka The SMUGGIES

11 June 2024 9:04 pm

The Sneering Hubris Awards, nicknamed the SMUGGIES, were announced in the wake of the King’s Birthday Honours where the Companion…

Voice referendum failure is still misunderstood

1 June 2024 3:38 am

The profound misunderstanding why over 60 per cent of voters rejected the Voice referendum’s proposition is demonstrated in a May…

Terrorism to heroism – the Hamas trajectory

28 May 2024 11:21 pm

How long before a gun-toting, slogan-chanting Hamas fighter (but not a female) is invited to address the UN General Assembly?…

The Sofronoff Express at platform ‘speed’

27 May 2024 10:34 pm

The Magna Carta meets the ACT’s legal system on the Sofronoff Express in what promises to be a historic and…

His story as history

19 May 2024 4:44 pm

Western universities failed to teach the true nature of Soviet communism