If you were hoping August would be a quiet month in geopolitics – just you, the footy finals, and maybe a bit of barbie time –...
In the annals of political irony, few names fit the bill quite like Mark Speakman. Here we have a man whose very surname evokes the act...
I think I’m getting old. I don’t feel old; in my mind I’m about 19. I have, though, started saying ‘old’ things. Last week I told...
According to a report published by the official news agency of the Islamic Republic (IRNA), the purpose of the recent visit by the regime’s President, Mr...
‘It’s been 84 years,’ echoing the words of the elderly Rose at the end of Titanic, has become a meme representing an inordinate wait. The UK...
The Australian Labor Party’s failure to see the failings of multiculturalism might be behind a record rise in human trafficking and slavery. Data released this week...
Abortion is often defended as psychologically safe – and the Turnaway Study is the banner under which that claim marches. Published in 2015, it followed nearly...
More years ago than I care to remember, I had the enviable task of driving a new motor vehicle around Europe and Scandinavia so I could...
Book review: Suzanne O’Sullivan (2025). The age of diagnosis: Sickness, health and why medicine has gone too far. Hodder. Most of us have various minor physical...
It’s time for political leaders to be honest with the Australian people. Hard-working Australians are doing it tough. Living standards are falling. Household budgets are under...