MinterEllison's CEO took it upon herself to send a comforting email to the law firm's employees, whom she blithely assumed would be dismayed to learn Christian Porter had become a client. That ignorant and ill-advised memo would be deeply shocking were it not a reflection of the sadly familiar spirit of an era in which mob rule so often trumps the rule of law

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Diligently refuting ‘alternative health’ charlatans was what the Skeptics once deemed their flint-eyed duty, but along came COVID and the tune changed to an immediate and unquestioning support for lockdowns. Bear in mind that RN's Phillip Adams is a prominent member and you'll have an idea how much credence they deserve

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Yes, Morrison & Co are better than Team Albo, but that's not saying much. Meanwhile, in regard to the economy and freedom-related issues, this Coalition government has spent the pandemic mimicking a soft socialist one.  Who voted for that?

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In bowing to WA Premier Mark McGowan's wish that the Commonwealth withdraw from Clive Palmer's bid to reopen the state's borders, the PM stands condemned for an appalling dereliction of duty to uphold the Constitution. That left the High Court to ignore history and the clear meaning of words in a decision that would have sickened the Founding Fathers

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If he is lucky, Christian Porter will limp away, secure for the moment in his job but with the reek of suspicion and smear destined to dog him ever after. Come the next Cabinet shuffle, he'll be damaged goods fit only to be shunted sideways or out. Of course, if he has the spine, he might choose to give as good as he gets

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The truth about much regarding the COVID-19 epidemic is that there is no knowledge. We do know what the virus does, and how it kills people. But why isn't the virus killing entire families, as did the Spanish Flu of a century ago. Alas, strapped for facts and pressed for sound bytes, that isn't crimping 'expert' commentary

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After observing Britain's panicdemic at close quarters, two things are as clear as the mask on your face. One: never again let public health doctors have this sort of power and influence. Two: those without skin in the game make the worst decisions. Politicians who claim ‘we’re all in this together’ are uttering flat-out lies

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Redemption is absent from the woke catechism, an omission that sees your modern-day Jacobins celebrate each other's morality when destroying the lives and reputations of others. As Aristotle noted, all putative virtues must have their have a dark sides, and just now the gloom deepens by the day

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Study England's ledger of national morbidity, as I have been doing to occupy my idle hours, and deaths in 2020 show an unsettling 13 per cent increase. Compare this with the average of the previous five years, however, and the figure that emerges is an increase of just 2 per cent, which hardly justifies the pounding the panic button has been taking

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Of all the weirdness COVID-19 has inflicted on Australia, perhaps the most bizarre example of the virus' impact on the bureaucratic mind emerged this week from the Therapeutic Goods Administration -- a 'cease and desist order' directed at a group of physicians who desire the freedom, now denied them, to prescribe hydroxychloroquine

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