I wrote about the freebie phenomenon, the handing out of free or highly subsidised stuff to eager voters. It’s been on the ...

The philosopher Karl Popper stated that for liberal democracies to survive, they must not tolerate the intolerant. Boundaries ...

What qualities make someone a good team player? In sports we all have a pretty good idea: in public, a good team player ...

For years now, the Australian Energy Market Operator’s ‘Step Change’ scenario has served as the official lodestar of the ...

Australia’s economic stagnation has become so widespread and persistent that it must be asked whether it is simply the ...

In China in 2020, an ambiguous economic plan emerged from a Politburo meeting. The ‘dual circulation’ strategy was confusing ...

Like a bunny boiler who refuses to die in a horror movie, the Covid jabs are back. Headlines trumpet the familiar narrative: ...

One of President Trump’s charms is that, like the late Prince Philip, he will readily engage in vigorous public banter. This ...

What really is ‘net zero’? I had to look it up because it makes no sense. It appears to be the removal of carbon dioxide from ...

Neither the English Bill of Rights nor the American Second Amendment exists to ensure people can shoot pests, deer, or clay ...

As ever, these days the Beeb is better at becoming the news than making it. Now the White House has taken a pop at the ...

A charity called the Brilliant Club offers support to disadvantaged pupils in non-selective state schools to enable them to ...