As I’ve written many times, Australia is bedeviled by two Scott Morrisons. There’s Scott Morrison the international statesman who has won recognition around the world for his principled stance against China. Then there’s Scotty from Marketing, a gutless dog on domestic politics, continually waved back and forth
January 9th, 2022. The New Year in the UK continues to amaze, with the difficulties of devolution presenting again. Chester FC, a non-league football side have been threatened with prosecution for breaking the Welsh Government’s Covid legislation. The problem is that the Welsh/English border runs through the stadium,
As I recently wrote, the frenzied witch-hunting of Novak Djokovic is yet another excrescence of the sort of media-fuelled ugliness that periodically breaks out in Australia. Still, the mainstream media at least have the poor excuse of being driven by a desperation to generate clicks online and stave off their
Joe McIntyre University of South Australia Dr McIntyre is legal theorist specialising in judicial studies and public law. After initially practicing law in South Australia, he moved to the UK to study at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis examined the nature of the judicial role, and how that
The embarrassing spectacle of the Novak Djokovic show trial drags on. All that has been aired in the trial so far merely confirms what seemed obvious enough from the start: the whole chaotic farce is almost certainly a political concoction. If nothing else, it exposes beyond doubt the Kafka-esque absurdity
Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. I wanted to take a moment to recognize Novak Djokovic and his heroic defiance of the COVID regime, lending his enormous platform and status to the millions of people around the world who have been denied their unalienable rights
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
When even the Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios is defending Novak Djokovic, you know the Australians have got this whole sorry saga badly wrong. Kyrgios has never hidden his contempt for the world number 1 tennis player. While rival Rafael Nadal has struggled to hide his glee at the misfortune
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Grant Dalton is a true patriot. He’s under attack for taking the next Americas Cup offshore. I accept there are more boring so-called sporting spectacles, such as people in pajamas tugging at one anothers garments, otherwise known as judo, and certainly rifle-shooting, but by
Piers Morgan is livid that the sports world continues to allow men who claim to be women to compete in women’s sport. He’s absolutely right. British broadcaster Piers Morgan blasted transgender college swimmer Lia Thomas after she dominated earlier this week in collegiate meets, smashing records previously held
There are growing calls for at least some form of boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. Contrary to the popular narrative of “China Joe”, it is the US president who is so far taking the lead. But the only boycotts announced so far, are “diplomatic boycotts”. Australia’s best-known
Donald Digby When most people think of the America’s Cup they think of wealthy men sailing around in expensive boats representing exclusive clubs where members gather to cluck cluck and tut-tut about whatever topic is current while enjoying a drop of their favourite tipple. Something that happens for a
Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and Computation.
