We need a globalisation insurance
What has the virus wrought? In some ways it is a perfect weapon: it doesn’t kill that many people in a greater scheme of things but it terrorises whole societies …
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The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020
Around the world, the shop shelves are emptying fast. In Australia: Australian supermarkets are being completely stripped of essential items from people seemingly stockpiling products as fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak …
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Don’t mention the pandemic
The Woke Health Organisation – sorry, the World Health Organisation – continues to provide non-stop entertainment since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak. I don’t know if laughter is the …
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Good News from the Atmosphere
It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism (or, rather, according to the new guidelines, climate crisis or …
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Hate the rich or love the poor?
Interesting musings from the economist Maarten Boudry on the topic of inequality, in a post titled “Is extreme wealth a greater evil than extreme poverty?”: Imagine you could wave a …
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Those That Trust Trump, or Who Hearts America?
A fascinating update, courtesy of Pew Research Center, on attitudes towards the United States around the world, best summarised in this table: It’s personally interesting to note that Poland is the …
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Russia and China after your internet
Nothing good ever comes of when these two take interest in something: The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, …
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China: Care about Uighurs? You must be a white supremacist
Somehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
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The Great Malaise continues
At PJ Media, my old friend Richard Fernandez muses about the current upheaval: Bloomberg editors have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, …
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The United Nations is a joke with zero credibility on human rights
Tell us something we don’t know The Daily Chrenk, I can hear my readers saying right about now. Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no matter how used I am now …
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How dare he!
It seems like Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali stole even more of Greta Thunberg’s childhood by winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, beating the 16-year old Swedish Apocalyptic who seemed …
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Implementing Greta
I have written before about the actual policy proposals supported by Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strike initiative, which they see as necessary in order to “save the planet”. …
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Religion, but not as you know it
A few weeks ago I wrote a longish blog post arguing that for many people in the developed world environmentalism has become a religion, filling up the gap in spirituality left …
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It’s always about redistribution
Yawn. Reliable, like clockwork: The UN has called for a global “green new deal” and overhaul of the world’s financial order to tackle climate change and deliver on its Agenda …
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The Prime Minister who broke the Pacific’s heart…
…and made them cry. Apparently: A Prime Minister has been brought to tears over Australia’s stalled efforts around climate change. Wrapping up the Pacific Island Forum held this week in …
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Gender inequality – but not like you’ve seen it before
A team of researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex have produced a new way of measuring the relative well-being of both sexes (yes, only two, according …
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China – a friend or a fowl?
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, an ex-soldier who currently happens to be the chair of the parliamentary intelligence committee, has created a bit of a stir when he compared the rise …
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Of shitholes – foreign and our own
Donald Trump doesn’t mince words – in fact they’re usually like a very rare steak with blood still dripping as you slice through. Some months ago, “the controversy of the …
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If I could have everyone read just one thing about climate change policy…
…this could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average-op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg distills all the elements of the argument he has been making for …
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Plastic fantastic
Last year, major Australian supermarkets have stopped using thin plastic bags to save the environment from more pollution. I don’t know about others, but I’m still using plastic bags as …
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