Amidst general gloom and doom, there’s been a small ray of light, showing that sometimes scare campaigns and endless demonisation…

Absolutism is stalking the land. Extreme policies are being proposed and justified as the only possible response considering the supposedly…

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we have managed to survive four years of…

If it’s up to our health experts – doctors, scientists and researchers, administrators and bureaucrats – we will never return…

It’s not true that failure is an orphan. Afghanistan today is like Freddy Krueger, “the son of a hundred homicidal…

Hello August 2021, that disappointing sequel to 2020. Or perhaps we’re actually in the 20th month of 2020 – Augustember.…

As the Taliban prepare to yet again, a quarter of a century later, take over Afghanistan, an olive branch is…

Life expectancy in China is now close to 77 years so, at 100, the demise of the Chinese Communist Party…

The other day, Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter to complain how her “abuela” (grandma) in Puerto Rico…

The American military is increasingly facing future armed with the attitude “If we’re going to lose a major war, at least…

Children are the future. But what future will it be when the children of today are indoctrinated up to their…

You have no doubt noticed over the past few years – but accelerating wildly and widely in the last one…

The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The…

Lunar New Year is as good a time as any to commend your friends and threaten your enemies, all in…

The more I look at Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd these days, the more I think that ancient Greeks were…

Over the years of travelling around the globe and speaking at all sort of forums, Swedish public health expert, the…

As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than…

Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but…

It’s that time of the year again to wish readers a very Merry Christmas — whatever circumstances you find yourself…

Thanks to Israeli scientists we now have a psychological profile of a large section of our population and the body politic: A…

Joe Biden is not meant to govern. If he manages, and whatever he manages, that’s all well and good, and…

Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration national security alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst –…

What a mess. You know what I mean, so I’m not going to list all the problems and alleged irregularities…

For the left, Rupert Murdoch truly is an, if not the, Antichrist. He has been so before Trump and is…

First Australia in the first months of the year — and now the western parts of the United States. Australian…