Chinese Emperor Xi Jinping wants his place in history. And domestic prestige. An invasion of Taiwan would achieve both goals. And the world will watch.

UK PM May will step down after Brexit is finalised. And so it's a great pity that there is not a wannabee UK PM named June. But there's not, so after May will come...

2018 saw brainlessness raised to previously unheard of heights, the new peak being achieved by Andrew Broad, a National Party MP of small IQ but large, err, ego.

Global share markets have got a bad case of the jitters: the year's gains on the ASX have gone.The Australian parliament has descended into a scene from The Party.

On Tuesday NASA landed a vehicle of some sort on Mars. On the same day, the Liberal Party crash landed onto Mars; 20 million kms from Liberal reality.

This is the worst 5-month start to a fiscal year since 2011. But investors who have at least a 5-year investment horizon shouldn't worry about 5 months.