I am struck by the curious reflection that if everything is inevitable, as our elites tell us, well then we don't really need them. After all, this is the biggest and most expensive elite in history. Either they should do their job or make way.

There are two fairly standard approaches to political power used by those who seek it. Some seek power with the assumption that the citizenry are the source of…

The citizenry insist and insist and insist that they are proud of the Medicare system and that they want it to work. They continually send instructions to this…

The strength of representative democracy is its ability to slow down those in power who wish to govern by blank cheque, but also those not in power who wish to…

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequen…

The politician is : trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wou…

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.