At Catallaxy Files, Sinclair Davidson writes: Remember all that talk in March and April about shifting the curve, about buying time to ensure that the public health system didn’t collapse? Well, it was all a lie. Australia has been pursuing a COVID elimination strategy. It turns out that the modelling that the Victorian government has […]

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When this morning’s edition of the Herald Sun landed on Melbourne doorsteps, the front-page (reproduced in part above) report began thus: Victorian businesses are pleading with Premier Daniel Andrews not to send them to their economic grave as an extended lockdown looms. Inside the same edition of the Herald Sun, on page 17, there is […]

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Readers may have been following from a distance the kerfuffle over the BBC’s disdain for Rule Britania and the attempts by some at Britain’s national broadcaster to have it stripped from the Proms. Apparently, if you’re a woke sort, it is an incitement to celebrate the Middle Passage, red-coated racism then and white privilege today.  […]

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At the ABC, the thugs bashing, burning and looting US cities are ‘mostly peaceful’ protesters, curiosity being in such short supply at the national broadcaster’s Washington bureau that no one has bothered to devote more than a passing glance at the plentiful online footage of, to cite but one incident, Republicans being jostled, abused and […]

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Asked for her opinion of female intellectuals, novelist Mary McCarthy had kind words for Hannah Arendt, who she  “greatly admired”. Lillian Hellman, however, was another matter. “Every word she writes is false, including ‘and’ and ‘but,'” she replied. The barbed quip went over so well, McCarthy repeated it with relish and minor variations in several […]

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Something rather big and yet largely unremarked came to pass a week ago today in the United States, where a former Justice Department attorney admitted to federal prosecutors he had quite deliberately reversed the meaning of an email from the CIA in order to secure the warrant needed to continue spying on Carter Page, a […]

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A Victorian friend of Quadrant awoke in a wee-hours panic after a most unsettling dream, one he fears may be more prophecy than fancy. He jotted down what he recalled of his vision and sent it along: With the Melbourne Cup coming up special precautions are being planned, with jockeys and horses being required to […]

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Writing on the website of the American Institute for Economic Research,  Jeffrey A. Tucker laments the lunacy Premier Daniel Andrews is inflicting on the state stupid enough to have made him its Premier, not once but twice. Melbourne, that glorious city in the state of Victoria in Australia, granted me some of the best travel […]

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