Vaccine nationalism: the dangerous next phase
The vaccine wars appear to be just skirmishes ahead of something much bigger – vaccines as weapons in a looming new Cold War, writes Geoff…
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Will Covid spawn electoral success?
With approval ratings as high as 90 per cent Australia’s state leaders and the parties they lead look set to reap the rewards of keeping…
As Covid spreads Covid wars intensify
Governments that acted decisively earlier in the pandemic are hesitating now, writes Geoff Kitney. The freedom warriors and the business owners are becoming increasingly assertive…
Taking sides? The China conundrum
Trade relations are testing business leaders everywhere but particularly those whose governments are strongly aligned with the United States, Geoff Kitney writes. Boris Johnson’s China…
A sovereignty crisis of a different kind
In Australia the clarion call of ‘Take back control’ has become the war cry of a re-energised republican movement. Brexiters are not amused, writes Geoff…
Brexit trade wars: beware corporate America’s power
The idea that the UK after Brexit could expect to get some sort of inside running for a beneficial trade agreement with the US needs…
Covid-19: Big business fights back
There are powerful forces with deeply vested interests in ensuring that the world that existed before the pandemic is the world that emerges after it,…
After Corona: A world transformed
The coronavirus pandemic is testing leaders, governments, parties and political systems everywhere, writes Geoff Kitney, and the global health crisis may give Beijing a big…
Brexit and the danger of partisan divisions
The Australian lesson is that concentrating policy making power in political hands to “crash through” with a bold policy agenda might work for a while…
Brexit: Government of the people by the people for the people?
The health of democracy is a matter for growing concern but the responsibility for making it work better lies with the defeated as much as…