Speak Truth to Power…or Irrelevance
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It’s the broad thrust of Vance’s two-pronged argument that I found attractive. ‘Free speech, I fear, is in retreat,’ said Vance. He called EU commissioners... Read more.
Trump Calls Time on Self-Flagellation
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Western democracies have been pouring highly inflammable fuels on the bonfire of progressive vanities. Acts of self-flagellation include affirmative action policies... Read more.
The Progressive Authoritarian Tide Retreats
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Governments have managed simultaneously to be increasingly out of touch with people’s real concerns and meddlesome busybodies interfering in people’s daily lives.... Read more.
A One-Time ICC Advocate Recants
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I suspect that, given Trump’s strong antipathy towards the ICC and his earlier sanctions on ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (lifted by Biden in April 2021), most... Read more.
Trump’s Multiethnic Winning Coalition
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Phrases like the Latino, black, or Asian-American vote are increasingly meaningless. This can only be good for the long-term health of American democracy, contrary... Read more.
Australia’s Covid Inquiry Report Is Not Fit for Purpose
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The report’s solution to the overreach and abuse of power by authorities during Covid is to create even more bureaucratic structures with more powers and resources,... Read more.
Pandemic in Africa: Lessons and Strategies
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Africa is at risk of getting the worst of both worlds: failure to check the epidemic and failure to check economic collapse. Why? Most African countries lack the... Read more.
Why the Ruling Class Fears Democracy
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Being unheard and vilified has broken public trust in the underpinning institutions of democracy. In the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, less than half the people... Read more.
The Forces That Imperil Public Order
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Public disquiet has grown but bubbled along under the surface for decades at serially repeating instances of police refusing to enforce the law for fear of transgressing... Read more.
Perrottet’s Covid Apology Is Not Good Enough
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Australians cannot like a post on Facebook without police knocking on the door, and yet every level of our government engaged in crimes against our humanity –... Read more.
The WHO Is No Longer Fit for Purpose
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Unfortunately, the WHO’s performance in helping the world manage Covid-19 proved, to be kind, very patchy. This makes it all the more surprising that there should... Read more.
Voters Take Vengeance on the Tories
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The policy agenda should commit to restoring sovereign decision-making, shrinking government, strengthening free speech, reducing immigration, and cutting the administrative... Read more.