ScoMo can't kowtow to China over coronavirus
Why and how China secretly supports climate hysteria
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Climate hysteria around the…
How is only teaching climate catastrophism in schools discussion and debate?
One of the central tenets of a worthwhile, rigorous and balanced education system is there is room for disagreement, discussion…
Revealed: the sickly state of the National Electricity Market
This year’s annual report from the regulatory collective that is the Energy Security Board awards itself gongs for overseeing a…
Sick, sad and confused
I feel tormented this week. I want to drink. I want to suck dick. I want to self-destruct. I’m fighting an…
ScoMo can’t kowtow to China over coronavirus
On Saturday, the Morrison Government announced that it was partially lifting its China travel ban to allow Chinese Year 11…
Forget dumbing down of schools. What about dumbing down of teachers?
As students returned to school over the past few weeks, a new crop of graduate teachers was well-equipped to talk…
Harvey Weinstein shows the system works
It doesn’t matter what side of politics you’re on. Neither does it matter which side of the culture wars you…
Memo Dr Bandt: coronavirus concern is not racism
When Green’s leader Adam Bandt tweeted about last week’s shooting in Hanau, Germany, it became evident that he does understand what racism is. …
Bless their hearts: every Democrat is a loser in South Carolina
Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg said at least one accurate thing in South Carolina on Tuesday night: ‘Russia doesn’t…
A bare knuckles fight between Bernie, Bloomberg and Trump
The Nevada caucuses confirm that Sen. Amy Klobuchar has clung to the ledge by her fingernails as long as she…
How coronavirus can save Hong Kong
The coronavirus has enforced a hiatus in Hong Kong’s widespread political unrest with worries about transmission stalling protests. Dissatisfaction with…
Pete Buttigieg is a slightly less gay version of Obama
On Valentine’s Day, Mayor Pete and his hus-bear Chasten managed to once again charm absolutely no one, barring a few…
The truth is out there
Appearances can be deceiving, and the silver-haired, conventionally-dressed older couple who squeezed on to our table at a Tamworth Country…
Blacklisting sceptics
A mini ice age may be about to start, at least according to an alternative and heavily disputed theory of…
Globalism is dead
‘Globalism is dead. Long live globalisation’. For Mr Lee Howell, managing director of the elitist World Economic Forum, this is…
Return of the coal-fired poltergeist
Like the snows of Kilimanjaro that refuse — despite Al Gore’s inconvenient predictions — to vanish, Malcolm Turnbull is back.…
High Court of Wokeness
Last week our top court, the High Court of Australia, garbed itself in the fashionable attire of the cult of…
Business/Robbery etc
‘Last week’s ‘panic-sell’ advice from one of Australia’s many purveyors of emailed stockmarket wisdom had no evident impact on an…
Bad hair day
In the photograph, masses of black hair – profuse and grotesque; a polluted waterfall – gush through a hole in…
Entebbe: the sequel
The Arab League has joined the Organization of Islamic Countries in formally rejecting the Trump plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian…
Bruce Beresford at home in Birchgrove 2018
Sydney’s Archibald has the name and the fame, but there is a new kid on the block: the Darling Portrait…
No Pay? No Way!
As a sort of protest, I am not going to the opening of No Pay? No Way! at the Sydney…
The Happy Prince
Many people have had a go at it. Ever since Oscar Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in…
Luca Micheletti and Anna Dowsley
A taciturn Glaswegian and an unlikely knight of the realm, David McVicar has directed several of Opera Australia’s most admired…
Shades of the prison house: the ghosts of suicides fill our prisons
About the time Chris Atkins’s cell was slammed shut at Wandsworth Prison for the first time, I was sitting on…
Metternich gets a makeover
This is a giant Teutonic forest of a book, to be progressed through with determination as if by seasoned infantry;…
Hell and high water: eco-anxiety dominates Jenny Offill’s latest novel
Lizzie, the narrator of Jenny Offill’s impressive third novel Weather, is ‘enmeshed’ with her brother, according to her psychologist-cum-meditation teacher.…
Why were Kraftwerk such a colossal success?
Everything about Kraftwerk was odd. They had no front man, they seemed to play no instruments and their strange, electronic…
Home was not where the heart was for the Enlightenment’s intellectuals
Emily Thomas is a distinguished academic philosopher who has ‘spent a lot of time by herself getting lost around the…
Wouldn’t the migrant crisis make fantastic reality TV? Timur Vermes’s The Hungry and the Fat reviewed
The context for The Hungry and the Fat, Timur Vermes’s new satirical novel, is not as far-fetched as all that.…
It’s easy to forget how many respectable people embraced eugenics
Between 1923 and 1931 the publisher Routledge produced ‘Today and Tomorrow’, a series of 110 short books by intellectual luminaries…
Dr Livingstone becomes a dead weight: Out of Darkness, Shining Light, by Petina Gappah
The scope of Petina Gappah’s impressive novel is laid out in the prologue: the death of the Victorian explorer David…