Come the next pandemic, we are going to be in the same stupid mess we were in during the last one. Trusted pharmaceutical regulators overseas, such as those in Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the UK, will have given provisional approvals for vaccines that are safe. Read more

When does a “woman” include a biological male? And who gets to decide – Parliament or the courts? Read more

There’s a fragility to rules-based orders that has been around for as long as those orders have. So long as people generally agree that it is good to be bound by the rules, and that trying to change the rules is better than ignoring or breaking them, a rules-based order can persist. Read more

I have no doubt that Peter Smith loves the West. You can feel it in every line of his writing – the anger at its enemies, the contempt for its betrayal, the frustration at its leaders who lack the courage to defend it. Read more