Jacinda Ardern’s tenure as New Zealand’s Prime Minister (2017–23) was lauded globally as a masterclass in empathetic ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...