
Where to for the Republican Party?
Donald Trump had turned out the record number of supporters ever for a sitting president. Joe Biden had turned out an even greater record number of supporters ever for a …
Read MoreDonald Trump had turned out the record number of supporters ever for a sitting president. Joe Biden had turned out an even greater record number of supporters ever for a …
Read MoreThe love affair between Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump is well and truly over. Trump has been repeatedly complaining about the Fox coverage of his presidency for a year or …
Read More1. Democrats, buoyed by the media and the public research industry support chorus, were expecting a Blue Wave. A lot of Republicans, buoyed by the enthusiasm of the base as …
Read MoreBack in 1996, I and three friends had the privilege (having handsomely won the election) of editing the University of Queensland student newspaper “Semper Floreat”. The Latin name means “always …
Read MoreWhen freedom and democracy are restored to the United States: In case you are unfamiliar with the term, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was instituted in the post-apartheid South Africa …
Read MoreI’m still having a PTSD episode after watching the entire 90 minutes (or was it 900 minutes?) of the badly misnamed “debate” between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, so you …
Read More“I would advise you not to take the Russian or the Chinese vaccines,” my GP told me the other day, “I suspect there might have been some shortcuts taken in both …
Read MoreCheap shot? Sorry, I usually prefer expensive ones too, but that’s all I have tonight with #UncleToms trending on Twitter and Jake Tapper complaining on CNN that the first night …
Read MoreDonald Trump has released the agenda for his second term: A few random thoughts in response: 1) The biggest missing piece – as it has been from Trump’s agenda over …
Read MoreAs somebody who has experienced “not the real socialism”(TM) for the first fifteen years of my life, I seriously never expected that a few decades on I would have to …
Read MoreThe perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” (Treasurer Josh Frydenberg) – God helps if there is ever a real shock like a …
Read MoreTwenty-twenty was going to be a great year. I think it was the cool number. Much cooler than 1919 or 1818. Ten-ten was just as good a number, but from …
Read MoreMake no mistake: the attacks, both physical and rhetorical, against the memory of Winston Churchill show that the mask of the agitators in the streets and across the social media …
Read MorePresident Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation or a criminal organisation – or both – the underlying facts are …
Read MoreIt is being increasingly remarked that the Coronavirus crisis in the United States is becoming polarised into a Republican versus Democrat issue, not least because the two sides of politics are …
Read MoreI love sprawl. OK, I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either, like so many out there do. I respect it as people’s choice – the suburbs, highways …
Read MoreWith the economies sliding past the Great Recession 2 towards the Great Depression 2 and with tens of millions suddenly unemployed throughout the developed world (with hundreds of millions throughout …
Read MorePlenty of people like to be filmed against the backdrop of their bookshelves to convey the message or at least create the impression that they are smart. This has become …
Read MoreThis is an incredible story of science versus the political-media complex: I ran an obscure pharmaceutical company until a few days ago. Then we got famous. Early in the Covid-19 …
Read MoreDear libertarian friends I’m going to take one for your team. I don’t particularly like the idea of a contact tracing app on my phone, but since the government seems …
Read More