Guest notes
Dis-con notes
Some policy reforms, Mr Morrison Three weeks ago I advised Scott Morrison to dump seven Liberal and LNP ‘Duds’ from…
Corona notes
Heads Trump wins, tails CNN loses Remember back when that Imperial College in London modelling came out saying that this…
Jewish notes
Is opposition to Israel anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitism, and who deserves the label anti-Semite? These are questions that arose from…
Dis-con notes
Time for a re-shuffle, Mr Morrison Since its re-election the Morrison government has been beset by one ‘crisis’, real or…
Pandemic notes
The contraction of globalisation The thought of globalisation as an inherent good of modern life is fracturing. That is not…
Wu flu notes
My Coronavirus hell Many of you will be wondering what it’s like to get the coronavirus – aka Wu Flu,…
Euro notes
Tories in the time of Coronavirus Who would have thought until a few weeks ago that Boris Johnson’s success over…
Redemption notes
Decline of Australia
Short notes
Confessions of a Coronavirus vulture The luckiest man in the world is a financier friend of mine who decided two…
Euro notes
Auf Wiedersehen, Willkommenspolitik What a difference five years makes. In the European summer of 2015, a huge wave of illegal…
London notes
Drinking English champagne A visit to London to watch the end of Britain’s 47-year membership of the European project reveals…
Cultural notes
Childhood’s end Shouldn’t we target the sheer hypocrisy, the pretence that constantly frightening youngsters with prophecies of doom – now…
Brexit notes
A victory for the voters Who remembers the Sydney Morning Herald’s editorial on the eve of Britain’s Brexit referendum in…
Climate notes
The Great Global Warming Symposium We can now look back over the past decade and agree that ‘climate change’ has…
Evacuee notes
Along with thousands of others my wife and I are currently bushfire evacuees. In my case at least this is…
Sic note
Google’s language skills (sic) We all make mistakes. To quote the Augustan satirist Alexander Pope, ‘to err is humanistic’. But…
Australian notes
Walking above the waters If you dawdle in the interior of Australia there is a fair chance that you will…
Brexit notes
The man we must all thank Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has, like…
Climate notes
Amid the current crop of climatic horrors being visited on various inhabitants of Queensland and NSW I reflect, having just…
US notes
Fake news outs itself Credibility used to matter to the media, but in these days of fake news and media…
Euthanasia notes
Dignity in death ‘Serendipity’ brings to mind instances of happy and mutually-beneficial coincidence. Sadly, a few experiences I’ve had over…
Kiwi notes
For much of my juvenile life in England, New Zealand existed only as a kind of mysterious dual oceanic blob…
Indigenous notes
Beware labeling deaths in custody as racially motivated From time to time we hear about tragic events where a person…
Energy notes
The world needs more Australian coal, not less Most fairy tales contain important life lessons and as the father of…
North American notes
Al Jolson vs the vulgarian pugilist First to Canada. The election produced a minority government win for the incumbent Al…
