We're in the grip of a capricious authoritarianism that separates children from parents, forbids bedside visits to the dying, endorses police thuggery and urges us to inform against our neighbours. The pandemic has brought out this multi-faceted ugliness, not least of which is the spin, misrepresentation and untruths peddled tirelessly by our political and managerial classes

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Last month, Health Minister Greg Hunt wrote that doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin for the prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. On Friday the Therapeutic Goods Administration countermanded its minister and banned the drug. Like its move to make e-cigarettes available only on prescription such moves suggest the regulatory body is a law unto itself

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We used to trust our governments, whether we voted for the party in power or not, to do their best to look after everyone’s best interests. We don’t any more because governments, like Victoria’s regime and its nakedly politicised police force, have shown that they only look after the interests of the minority factions that screech the loudest and reflect its prejudices

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When, finally, Americans must choose between guns and butter, the voters will choose butter and put an end to foreign ventures which the popular memory will recall always seemed to end badly. For this reason and with China rising, America’s recent humiliation in Afghanistan must be ranked as of even greater consequence than its defeat in Vietnam

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Schools are a primary focus of cultural-left activists and fellow travellers in the fight to reshape society in their utopian image. The revised Australian national curriculum released earlier this year illustrates just how successful that sustained and concerted effort has been

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Sydney University bioethics professor Angus Dawson puts it this way: “A choice not to be vaccinated may mean that you do not have access to certain benefits, but this is not coercion, as such.” Notice the sleight of hand? Liberties long regarded as givens are now 'benefits' and, as such, can be erased for those deemed not to deserve them

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When a retired judge, a conservative at that, urges mass assemblies and protests in direct violation of the chief medical officers' orders, you know public disgust with coast-to-coast COVID restrictions, border closures and lockdowns is near boiling point. Stuart Lindsay wants you to join him in the streets

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Professor Robert Clancy, a practising clinical immunologist, presents three difficult but important questions related to our future with COVID-19. First, what does 'escape from the bubble', a term favoured by chief medical officers and politicians, actually mean? Second, what is the path to that goal of a pre-COVID normality? Third, how can we regain and retain this freedom?

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It will be many years before we get a full and accurate measure of the repercussions of America's humiliating exit from Afghanistan, but this much we know. It has gravely damaged the already tottering administration of Joe Biden. It has disconcerted US allies and emboldened enemies.  And it has marked another waypoint on the 'melancholy, long, withdrawing roar' of US power

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The federal government has ordered a nationwide snap lockout of all residential and commercial buildings on the advice of the Chief Engineering Officer. Taking note of the recent apartment tower collapse in Florida, Professor Bernice Cumbersome said the threat to Australians was palpable and all who object want Granny to die beneath a pile of rubble

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