Andrew L. Urban

China is desperate to crush the Tiananmen spirit

29 May 2020 5:00 am

Next week’s anniversary 0f the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen massacre is generating deep concerns in Beijing — hence its lashing…

How Canberra can open closed state borders

24 May 2020 11:41 am

It is unconstitutional to close borders between states, now that medical advice assures the Premiers that there is no scientific…

Closed borders are unconstitutional – no question

23 May 2020 12:05 pm

You can’t argue that there is still a national coronavirus emergency that provides an exemption to Section 92 of the…

Wolf Warriors or China’s whores?

21 May 2020 4:37 pm

The media has quickly adopted the romanticised term ‘wolf warriors’ for those who in reality should be termed China’s prostitutes.…

Coronavirus: wet markets or the lab – or both?

1 May 2020 11:30 am

The most credible version of how the coronavirus was let loose on the world glues together the two apparently contradictory…

China: diminished and exposed

23 April 2020 5:42 pm

A propaganda banner reads: “Create Happiness for the People”. The CCP, the Chinese Criminal Party, is steeped in the communist…

Our genius universities: let’s fix discrimination against women by making them bigger targets

9 March 2020 8:28 pm

I didn’t realise the University of Technology Sydney is run by dummies. The university has received approval from the NSW…

We have a surplus, but it’s just been deployed against bushfire and coronavirus debt and deficit

5 March 2020 6:00 pm

Perhaps the best way to look at the budgetary effects of coronavirus is not that it has helped wipe out…

Why and how China secretly supports climate hysteria

26 February 2020 5:40 pm

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.  Sun Tzu, The Art of War.  Climate hysteria…

Wisdom at Railway Square

6 February 2020 6:09 pm

The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along with a few other…

The Democrats will be butchered by their botched coup

31 January 2020 6:20 pm

The botched attempt at a coup against US President Donald Trump by the Democrats — and their anti-Trump supporters within…

Impeachment? As Bill Clinton once said, Mr President, I feel your pain

19 January 2020 5:00 am

It’s excruciating. My eye rolls are so severe and unstoppable that my eyelids are sore. My forehead is red from…

Iran attacks – as America’s left wing stops flying

8 January 2020 1:09 pm

As Iran fires off missiles at US military bases — but avoiding the big ones with lots of American soldiers — in…

Fluid factism grips the world

27 December 2019 5:00 am

For holiday reading I have dived into non-fiction books filled with facts and hard evidence (cod, salt, volcanoes, earthquakes), to…

Putin is cackling as the Democrats debauch democracy

17 December 2019 4:00 pm

The brutal, brazen and belligerent partisanship of the Democrats in their grubby attempt — soon to be failed attempt —…

Left-leaning leaders doom their parties

15 December 2019 12:00 pm

The evidence is in.  Jeremy Corbyn has done as Malcolm Turnbull almost did and Bill Shorten definitely did and Anthony Albanese is now doing:…

Damn due process, let’s impeach Trump anyway

6 December 2019 6:25 pm

We are witnessing America’s arguably most destructive political convulsion as the Democrats’ move to impeach President Donald Trump. It is…

When will China’s brittle autocracy break?

5 December 2019 7:48 pm

You don’t have to be a China watching political historian to recognise the accuracy of the observation that China has…

Climate change – as it really is

3 December 2019 4:30 pm

The most important and useful essay this year on climate change is an op-ed by Dr Judith Curry written for…

How Pauline Hanson became Shanghai Sam in drag

30 November 2019 6:50 pm

The CFMMEU is to Australia’s industrial relations system what China is to the West: a bully with too much money…

Climate cranks turn up the heat

26 November 2019 2:40 pm

Climate hysteria is increasing in intensity at the rate that alarmists claim extreme weather events are increasing thanks to burning…

Nobody is above the law in the United States – except a million or so illegal immigrants

23 November 2019 4:56 pm

Watching the Democrats haul their impeachment caravan across Washington these past days I was struck by the punctuation marks in…

We are only half-reconciled

17 August 2019 9:00 am

Senator Pat Dodson, often called the ‘father of reconciliation’, said last week that political leaders had failed to reconcile with…

Will Hong Kong be the spark for a wider revolt?

6 August 2019 4:35 pm

Hong Kong demonstrations are the fuse, and many in the Beijing dictatorship – those who know the history of revolutions…

All you need to know this week

3 August 2019 5:59 pm

Melbourne City Council, not to be outdone by Sydney Mayor Clover Moore’s declaration of a Climate Emergency plans to declare…