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The UK’s COVID-19 Inquiry is laying bare the chaos, mistakes, and political dysfunction of its pandemic response. Australia, by contrast, settled for an inquiry without teeth.
As 'lawfare' spreads - from veterans fearing prosecution to courts reshaping climate and migration policy - the rule of law is being twisted into a tool that can paralyse governments.
From Belarus to Gaza, Turkey to the United States, journalists are being jailed, harassed, silenced and killed. What happens when those who tell the truth become targets?
Bike-helmet rules, speech policing, safety mandates: harmless on their own, dangerous as a pattern. A warning against the slow erosion of adult freedom.
In Western Australia, gun owners are losing their licences not for breaking laws but for holding the 'wrong' opinions - a troubling echo of Orwell’s 1984, where dissent itself is the offence.
Donald Trump has said it direct to the United Nations – mass migration and net zero are toxic for Western nations. Can our 'Liberal' party even grasp the nettle?
American exceptionalism now means shielding allies from war crimes charges while shredding the very system of international justice it once helped create.
