Commentary Special Counsel John Durham’s report represents a trifecta of indictments. First and foremost, it’s a direct indictment of our national security and law enforcement apparatus, suggesting it’s plagued by unfathomable levels of rot and corruption at the highest ranks. Second, it’s an indirect indictment of our justice system. Third, through the special counsel’s own…
There Is No Beauty in Bureaucracy
May 22, 2023
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Commentary One of the great problems that we have here in Australia is that within our arts institutions, artistic decisions are increasingly being made not by artists but by administrators. Take, for example, the symphony orchestra. Where a conductor once largely curated his own artistic affairs, an “artistic planning team” of three to four bureaucrats,…
Unions Robbing Productive Taxpayers
May 22, 2023
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Commentary It’s payback time. The Community Public Sector Union (CPSU), having helped bankroll Labor’s victory by donating its members’ funds to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, appears to be now expecting a quid pro quo from Labor for its members by the use of taxpayer funds. This is evident from the public…
California Zero-Carbon Mandates Boost China’s Control of Cobalt
May 22, 2023
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Commentary Before California’s government imposed its zero-carbon by 2035 vehicle mandate, it first should have assured itself a secure market in cobalt. Otherwise, the main beneficiary will be the People’s Republic of China, which dominates the market in cobalt, a key mineral needed for batteries. That’s the conclusion I draw from a new book, “Cobalt…
John Robson: Expect More CSIS Leaks Given Blair’s Inadequate Response to Latest Beijing Interference Allegations
Commentary The disintegration continues. The latest revelation about the Trudeau Liberals’ blindness to Chinese election meddling is that then-public safety and emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair took months to grant CSIS a warrant to monitor election activities by former Ontario cabinet minister infamous for his links to communist China. And they still have no idea…
Time to Listen to the Hundred Years Old Henry Kissinger
Commentary If the Biden administration had devised a policy at the outset of the Ukrainian war to lead the Western allies in providing Ukraine with all that it would need to repulse the invasion successfully, the war would be over by now. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly approved the provision of first-class American fighter…
A Few Words About Elitism
Commentary Some words have interesting careers. Think of all the different—sometimes contradictory—meanings that have accreted around some very common words. “Democracy” is one, as is “liberal.” Once you start thinking about it, you realize that many of the words we commonly use to name important things are very slippery indeed. This would be more of…
Bigger Than Watergate
Commentary The current reports of executive branch illegality make Watergate look like kindergarten mischief. It is clear from the Durham Report and the work of House Republican hearings that the current scandals in the Biden White House—and senior bureaucracies at the Justice Department, IRS, and elsewhere—are much deeper and more cancerous than Watergate ever was….
The Cultural and Economic Disaster of New York City
Commentary The New York Philharmonic’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s 9th Symphony, brilliantly conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, lived up to the piece’s immense reputation. Written in 1909, it is the last gasp of the Old World wrecked by the Great War. It left the audience in tears of melancholy reflection. The ceremonial and traditional silence following…
A Prayer for the Victims of the CCP
Commentary Many people ask: what can they possibly do to assist the persecuted in China? It is not easy. Other nations, let alone ordinary citizens, often seem to have little influence on the behaviour of the Chinese communist regime. Human rights are ignored and abused; the rule of law is breached; international agreements and norms…
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