Inconvenient facts are hidden, exaggerations abound, emphasis is given to 'cases', many of whom are so un-sick they need a test to know they are infected. As panic prevails and liberties are curtailed what isn't mentioned are hospitalisations, of which there are few, and certainly not the one single, solitary death so far this year. Meanwhile, China chortles at the panicdemic it has sown

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How long before inflation rears its ravenous head to hollow out the remains of an economy in which the Reserve Bank cashes its own cheques? Meanwhile, COVID and its ruinous lockdowns continue, Dark Emu is taught in schools and green rentseekers make out like bandits. If not yet officially stuffed we soon will be

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I'm feeling as Neanderthals must have felt as they saw their species overtaken by humans, for when I look around I see a new species whose brains have become narrow tunnels to avoid exposure to non-ABC-type views. They are terribly fearful of climate change and COVID. Terribly fearful full stop

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There is a species of conservative that makes my blood boil. I'm talking about those so accustomed to serving as the token renegade on the ABC's stacked panels that they accept with good cheer every latest defeat in the culture war. Then along comes Trump, who has some fight in him, and they recoil in horror at his 'style'

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Ollie Robinson -- that modern rarity, an Englishman who can actually play cricket -- has been banished from the sport amid howls of outrage over tweets he sent years earlier, when still a callow teen. Once again, the scolds have risen to brandish their virtue and, once again, they are proving far more offensive than the target of their condemnation

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Viking helmets are fetching and widely available, plastic ones as well as metal. Were I to buy one, and still more wear one, it would cement my new identity. Who could doubt me? I have blue eyes, surely a clincher, and I sometimes use one of the rowing machines at my gym. By current standards, what better credentials could I need to file AHRC complaints about anti-Norse racism?

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Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka made a perfectly reasonable and sensible call for international borders to be reopened as soon as practicable, only to be howled down as a threat to public safety and the common good. What a pity she runs an airline and not a government

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There you are in your Budget orchard, offering free apples to the local kids’ home while everyone acclaims your concern for the underprivileged and needy. But there's a problem: as you haven’t been tending your trees, forsaking the trimming and pruning that makes them more productive, the yield is shrinking and there are only rotten and sour apples to give away

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The legitimacy of any political leader is circumscribed according to whether they act justly and morally, where ‘morally’ is rooted in the natural justice of God’s law. There are acts and decisions for which the PM might be taken to task, but governing in accordance with Christian principles isn't one of them

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Professor Michio Kaku wonders if aliens walk amongst us, having crossed the universe as balls of thought riding waves of light. All very interesting in a silly sort of way, but no harm done. Professor Michael Mann claims the atmosphere's 0.04 content of CO2 is dooming us to fry and he is taken seriously. Go figure that one

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