Another ‘mostly peaceful’ day in the USA
As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than…
Eight trends to watch in 2021
Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but…
Fifteen reasons why Santa is a Communist
It’s that time of the year again to wish readers a very Merry Christmas — whatever circumstances you find yourself…
Victimhood Incorporated
Thanks to Israeli scientists we now have a psychological profile of a large section of our population and the body politic: A…
Joe Biden: gone in 60 weeks?
Joe Biden is not meant to govern. If he manages, and whatever he manages, that’s all well and good, and…
Joe Biden, America’s unenthusiastic allies – and the real ones
Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration national security alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst –…
America, remember the Australian ballot? Here are more electoral wonders from Down Under to try
What a mess. You know what I mean, so I’m not going to list all the problems and alleged irregularities…
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t dominate our media. He stands in the way of total left control, hence the hate campaign
For the left, Rupert Murdoch truly is an, if not the, Antichrist. He has been so before Trump and is…
America’s wildfires: products of the policies that left us so badly burnt
First Australia in the first months of the year — and now the western parts of the United States. Australian…
China’s Commiebrige Analytica
China’s Overseas Key Individual Database leak. Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians…
What’s a hammer and sickle on a campaign office wall among friends?
Be careful what you put on your office walls – or at least where you take your photographs: A small icon…
Ten good news stories from 2020
2020. What a year. As someone has recently remarked on Twitter, I can’t believe we stayed until midnight and cheered…
Seven rules for migrants
Many of us move throughout our lives, some frequently. Sometimes we don’t have much choice about the timing or the…
Yes, there’s a pandemic, but we have pushed our public finances past the point of no return
The perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” — Treasurer Josh Frydenberg –…
The D10: decoupling from China
God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in 2020, so whatever there is deserves wider…
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be oppressed in this racist hell
As many have remarked over the years, it is somewhat of a mystery why millions of people from the developing…
It’s 2020, so everything is racist. Especially at the ABC
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian ABC journalist, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and…
Wasting your money: wattle the government think of next
Firstly, a solution in search of a non-existent problem; not surprisingly a brain fart of that most immaterial of prime…
Our trendies can afford to sneer at America and democracy. Funny what happens in the developing world…
Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study…
Why I am a racist*
* And so, most likely, are you** ** According to the new nomenclature. I was born in another time and…
End the Antifa terror now
President Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation…
Let’s create Hong Kong II in Australia
We could have done it 31 years ago, after the People’s Liberation Army’s tanks liberated thousands of protesters from their…
How we’ve cooled on China
Welcome to the political chaos theory –- or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces…
A story stranger than any coronavirus conspiracy…
Never mind a boring terrestrial virus – what would happen to our planet if aliens from another planet ever make…
Why the left just love a crisis
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”. This short and catchy dictum was articulated by Rahm Emanuel, former Obama…