Each year I try and put the season into a Christian perspective because, as plenty of scholars, from Tom Holland to Augusto Zimmermann have demonstrated, even if we think it isn't, ours is still a ...

In the years since I was first tempted to engage in trying to understand the real issues behind power generation - especially electrical power generation - there is, above all, one salient feature ...

Russia’s potential Arctic-based revival will also have implications for the rise of a multi-polar world. This is a move away from the current era of dominant US supremacy to a multi-polar world in ...

The Arctic is coming in from the cold. President-elect Donald Trump has reopened the question of the US acquiring Greenland. This is the third US attempt. The Trump comment has focussed attention on ...

The Arctic could become a new Mediterranean. For the first time in its history, the Arctic looks set to play a larger role in world politics. The Arctic could provide the shortest route between the ...

Maybe, and maybe not. As Shakespeare remarked, in a play set 44 years before the time of Christ, 'There are tides in the affairs of men.' It certainly feels like a tide has turned in our affairs.

Saudi Arabia's state-owned international news channel Al Arabiya has denied me access to its website - apparently for the sin of writing extensively and positively about the Saudi-based Hashemite ...

All machinery and associated facilities including solar arrays and wind turbine towers have a finite life, they wear out. The issue of disposal of spent machinery and facilities is a growing problem ...

The "stakeholder" classes (hello George Megalogenis) are thrilled, now we're 30% overseas born and 50% "migrant origin". Bit like a Middle East autocracy.

The abortion issue had arisen during the recent state election as the outgoing Labor Party sought, with some success, to retain their Brisbane inner suburban seats by campaigning that an LNP ...

Today, the world faces another critical energy crossroads, with a heated debate on the role of crude oil, renewables, and nuclear power in driving future growth. The primary Energy Literacy ...