Opinion

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump is receiving gifts by the dozen. Here’s why calling him the most corrupt man to ever sit in the Oval Office is no understatement.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: You must be at your best for the ultimate sporting showdown as any weakness will be fully exploited by your opponent.

In tonight’s show, on the eve of the first Ashes test in Perth, Ben Harvey recounts the greatest and most controversial moments in the past 143 years of cricket between Australia and England.

EDITORIAL: Test cricket is a strange anachronism in today’s attention deficit-riven society. Australians forgo their phones in favour the hypnotic thwack of red leather against English willow. 

CAMERON MILNER: The Albanese Government paid out $2.4 million to Brittany Higgins. If our PM has nothing to hide, he should not fear an independent inquiry.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: England talk a big game, and maybe they believe it. But talk doesn’t score runs or take wickets out here.

GIDEON HAIGH: From time to time, people try to wean themselves off the Ashes for a number of reasons. The Ashes simply nods, smiles, thanks you for your time, and waits — it knows you’ll be back.

MARK RILEY: Hosting the conference in Adelaide was going to cost us billions. Maybe it is best that we just cop this one up the bracket.

DAVID ‘BUMBLE’ LLOYD: The biggest rivalry in sport is not for the faint of heart; here is my simple message to the combatants in this blockbuster series.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Love ’em or hate ’em, these House troublemakers stared down their president and made possible Tuesday’s vote to compel the administration to come clean about the Epstein web of degeneracy.

EDITORIAL: There is nothing inherently wrong with fluffy lifestyle journalism. But it’s unlikely to be the news Australian taxpayers want in return for the $1.2 billion they plough into the ABC each year. 

DANE ELDRIDGE: We never really liked him when he played for New Zealand and probably like him less now he is bringing his ‘Bazball revolution’ Down Under.

JENI O’DOWD: It’s time to call out the double standard. A perv is a perv, regardless of gender.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Even if the Epstein files never come out, it’s increasingly clear that the MAGA coalition is fragmenting.

EDITORIAL: When the boss of the country’s biggest bank is warning that Australians are taking on too much mortgage debt, you know things have gotten out of hand.