James Allan

Nairobi

Contributor at The Spectator

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Mendelian randomization of immune cell phenotypes to discover potential drug targets for B-cell malignancy - Blood Cancer Journal

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Molly Went |Charlie Mills |Amit Sud |James Allan |Richard S. Houlston

AbstractAlthough treatment options for B-cell malignancies have expanded, many patients continue to face limited response rates, highlighting an urgent need for new therapeutic targets.
Faint-hearted | The Spectator Australia

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | James Allan

The election is upon us. So if you were looking for a word to describe what Mr Dutton and the Coalition are offering the voters what would you choose? For me, I think I’d go with ‘faint-hearted’. This Liberal party election platform isn’t going to set anyone’s heart alight with excitement, is it? I think this is a big mistake.
Listing De Beers is the only way out for Anglo American

4 weeks ago | miningmx.com | James Allan

RECENT reports suggest Anglo American is exploring listing options for De Beers. In my opinion, this is the only route that Anglo can realistically pursue for the separation of De Beers. The Oppenheimer family exited De Beers in 2012 when Anglo American bought its 40% shareholding for $5.1bn, imputing a value of $12.75bn for De Beers. In 2024 Anglo took an impairment charge (before tax of $2.9bn) writing down its 85% to a “realisable” value of $4.1bn.
Justin Trudeau Has Left the Building – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. The man who went from ski instructor and kindergarten teacher virtually straight to being the Prime Minister of Canada has finally left the building. He resigned. But that was all for show. His party forced him out because the polls were diabolical. Go and read the Fraser Institute’s analysis of Canada’s economic performance after 10 plus years of Trudeau at the helm.
Democrats Armed with Gavels

1 month ago | quadrant.org.au | Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Anne Henderson |Malcolm Gillies |James Allan

The charge that Trump is endangering constitutional norms is tendentious twaddle. Partisan judges are the real villainsMar 24 20256 minsDid Australia's then-PM fancy himself as Winston Churchill's replacement?
‘Risible, Ludicrous, Preposterous’

1 month ago | quadrant.org.au | James Allan |Tony Thomas |Tony and Jackie Thomas |Nicholas Hasluck |Roger Partridge

My friend Roger Partridge persists in misrepresenting Trump 2.0's considerable achievements and their legality. Here's his dose of remedial educationMar 22 20259 minsIgnorant, inflamed and inane, the national broadcaster is always likening Trump to Hitler.
Mandates Matter - The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

I’ve asked this question before, and I’ll ask it again: why do right-of-centre politicians want to go into politics? If the answer is nothing more than ‘to win elections’, then notice what follows from that value-free vacuum. You can get an Angela Merkel, who won election after election, all while opening up the country’s borders to young, single men from Afghanistan and the Middle East, who overall lacked any obvious sympathy or liking for the whole array of Western values.
Natural Rights vs Utilitarianism: How Should We Defend Free Speech? – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan |Will Jones

Can utilitarianism – the doctrine that we should aim for the greatest happiness of the greatest number – adequately underpin free speech protections, or do we need a more robust concept of natural rights, of the kind asserted in the US Declaration of Independence? Are ‘natural rights’ even intellectually defensible or do they rely on a God to give them to us, a notion which many today reject? Prof James Allan and Dr Will Jones go head-to-head.
A Feckless President’s Betrayal

1 month ago | quadrant.org.au | Roger Partridge |Nick Cater |Peter Murphy |James Allan

Abandoning Czechoslovakia in 1938 guaranteed a world war. Trump’s sellout of Ukraine risks the same outcomeMar 03 202510 minsTheir ABC and Guardian are alarmed a conservative player, ADH, has entered Australia's regional TV market. They should beMar 03 20256 minsHuge spending on higher education nor even totalitarian mass murder make a difference.
Dictator Trump? That's Just Silly – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

In Saturday’s edition of Quadrant, Roger Partridge lambasted Donald Trump as an enemy of America’s constitutional democracy. On Sunday, James Allan, Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland and the author of Democracy in Decline, took his friend and colleague to task. Let me start this reply to Roger Partridge’s column (‘Trump’s War on Constitutional Democracy‘) by laying my cards on the table. I know Roger Partridge. He is one of the best lawyers in New Zealand.