Cursed by their own art
Why do all our favourite, talented (e.g. Jim Carrey, Richard Gere), much acclaimed film stars (e.g. Meryl Streep, Sally Field)…
Derryn Hinch’s public sex offenders register would be outrageous
In the wake of last weekend’s Victorian State election, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (probably with four shiny Upper House seats)…
Love is not love if you don’t toe the rainbow-coloured line
Love is not love, obviously, when a small activist minority of gay bullies intimidate a husband and wife publishing team…
No guilt, no apology
Convicted of murder, Derek Bromley can teach us all a lesson about saying sorry when we are not guilty. And…
What makes the Mullahs mad (let alone so many of their flock)?
It seems that Islam is causing massive waves of mental illness around the world. If we collate the responses to…
Deport the terrorists – and their families too
If our existing laws can not protect us from harm, we must make new ones that can. Terrorists, even those…
Labor’s quagmire of incompetence
A standard political tactic (of all sides) is to paint your opponents as inhumane or wreckers and wilful destroyers of…
Sorry, Australia, but Joko says “no”
Australia does not have the permission of Indonesia’s President to relocate our Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem.…
Turnbull’s back – but his Labor supporters are gone
It would not be surprising if, in the aftermath of the Wentworth by-election, Coalition members mispronounced the name of the…
Lunch with Leo and Sir Francis
I was having a chat with renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and brilliant British empiricist and champion of the scientific…
Do we want a nation run like a union – or a booming business?
The CEO of USA Inc, Donald Trump, has concluded the win-win-win US-Mexico-Canada trade deal; total US unemployment has dropped to…
How Ford denied Kavanaugh a defence
It isn’t that Dr Catherine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee alleging attempted rape by Judge…
The media vs the people
‘The separation of powers means that the legal system is answerable to no one,’ I said, speaking at the Sydney…
Malcolm, you promised… so go
Malcolm Turnbull’s backing off trying to bully his party into a NEGative plan has given the Liberals a golden opportunity…
Dumb and dumber
The venerable and much respected American columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer famously noted that to understand US politics you have…
A quick quiz you can’t win
Who are these people? Without giving the quiz game away, here are some characteristics of people who belong to a…
Gun lore
I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…
American mania
America’s current crisis over illegal immigration, family separations and border policies generally, have highlighted and exacerbated the nature of America’s…
Memo Julie Bishop: get us out of the UNHCR
Political leadership: leading the way on values with action. Doing what is right. Explaining and defending it clearly. Examples: this…
Donald Trump and the fury of the impotent
The public moral disintegration and demeaning of an entire cohort of people reached its zenith with the globally televised meltdown…
Nukes 101 with Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to…
The great undiagnosed dysrationalia epidemic
I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it…
The Parisites
Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi…
Australia, a failing state
According to the UN’s definition, ‘failed states’ are political entities that demonstrate little or no ability to provide their citizens…
Assad did it, not Putin
Last week’s chemical attack on dozens of his citizens – including children – has elicited no outrage from President Bashir…
