Having lost the confidence of Israel as an impartial mediator, the UN cannot exercise a moderating influence on Israeli actions. Israel has declared Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata.
There is no moral equivalence between the head of an elected government and the commander of a terrorist organisation who planned and ordered the October 7 massacre.
It is perverse to hold Israel to blame for the mass civilian carnage. Instead, the finger of criminality must be pointed directly at Hamas.
From net zero, immigration to identity politics, the expertocracy is aligned with the global technocratic elite against majority national sentiment. Any changes to the global health governance architecture should be understood in this context.
The International Court of Justice has fallen victim to judicial romanticism, naively believing courts are the best venue for resolving disputes that are political, social and economic.
Having overturned 100 years of settled science and policy orthodoxy on pandemic management with Covid, we are on the cusp of revolutionising the everyday practice of medicine.
Scott Morrison finds himself in the eye of a storm. But handing over control of the Covid agenda to bureaucrats who copied Jacinda Ardern’s ‘truth’ doctrine was far worse.
Right from the start, the Chicken Littles have held sway – but now it’s time for us to get real.
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