Climate change science is "settled," we are told by activists, politicians, media and official science bodies. It is our emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) that is supposedly causing a climate crisis ...

Since 2014, the Chinese and Russian central banks have tried to move out of US Treasury holdings, preferring the magic of gold. In 2022, the latter went so far as to link its currency, the ruble, to ...

One theory that is gaining traction is that Donald Trump caused this result. It’s an easy story to write, given some added credibility by the election result in Canada and doesn’t require tediously ...

HKOPS calls for the creation of a new territorial entity comprising Jordan, Gaza, and part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to be named The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. HKOPS first emanated in ...

Ex-Loreto-Toorak and ex-Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil (MPP Harvard) epitomises Modern Labor's profound identification with ordinary citizens. A PM in waiting no less.

There’s a great line from the comedy show Kath & Kim, where the very suburban Kim expresses her desire to be like affluent city people. “I want to be effluent Mum," she says. "You ARE effluent, Kim," ...

Over the last several decades, California's passion to transition away from fossil fuels has overregulated and overly burdened just the SUPPLY of oil production and refining but has not reduced the ...

In the eternal tug-of-war between fairness and standards, fairness has developed a neat little trick: redefine the standard. According to a recent article in a national newspaper, nearly a third of ...

No investor class is more regularly picked on by politicians of the left and by some members of the public than residential landlords. Landlords have become scapegoats for high rents and housing ...

There is a well-meaning kind of pessimism behind equity-score inflation: the quiet belief that some people just can't get there, so we'll give them a leg up and hope for the best. But a society that ...