Petrodollars, climate change, and the end of the world as we know it
Quietly, America’s petrodollar deal expired. June 8 marked the end of an agreement signed in 1974 between Saudi Arabia and…
I, goldfish
The death of the human attention span is real
Dutton’s disaster: facial recognition to access social media
In writing this, I am probably burning my political bridges and dis-inviting myself from future politics. And yet I do…
Dutton’s praise of the e-Safety Commissioner spells disaster for the Liberals
There are days when I wonder if the idiom, ‘You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make…
We’re not multicultural. We have one culture. The Australian culture
Mass migration is the largest and most controversial political topic in the Western world. Come the beginning of June, mass…
Think of the kids: student-led learning finally dies
Most of us were lucky enough to make it through the education system largely unharmed. Today, parents are terrified that…
Digital ID: privacy and liberty are brothers
This is a variation on the speech I gave over the weekend in Sydney at the One Nation rally against Digital ID.…
The heir of Orwell
It took 1,084,170 words for JK Rowling to tell the story of Harry Potter. Spanning seven books and a decade,…
Australia does not need a policeman for a police state
When the Labor Party won the federal election off a tired, limping, and lost Morrison Liberal Party – we knew…
Tasmania’s hung Parliament exposes the failure of major parties
The Liberals have tentatively claimed ‘victory’ in Tasmania, but who knows if that will hold until Monday. If it does,…
Konstantin Kisin: Romancing the West
‘The West is better. Our societies are better. Not superior, just better at producing the kinds of things that human…
AI has always been racist
Silicon Valley is having a meltdown over Google’s Gemini AI image generator after it flooded social media with a fake…
Why I miss Michael Crichton
Western culture is a mess and the side of common sense seems to be drowning under the well-funded forces of…
Jordan Peterson: ‘You have won the battle, minions of the deep state – but not the war’
Jordan Peterson upsets academia. Their determination to ‘shut him up’ has little to do with arguments about free speech and…
Existential
Several chapters into a new science fiction novel, it became apparent I’d picked up another communist allegory disguised as entertainment.…
Epstein didn’t kill himself
After a lot of ‘will they, won’t they’ speculation, the notorious ‘Jeffrey Epstein’ documents have entered the public domain and…
Clover Moore’s ‘Blak power’ New Year’s Eve fireworks (for kids?)
The ABC has been dragged from one end of social media to the other after the appallingly political and nauseatingly…
Why isn’t the media challenging the $60 trillion Net Zero cult?
Those who believe renewable energy will save the planet generally have very little understanding about what the apocalypse is meant…
The tyranny of consensus killed science
We live in an Age where science is governed by a tyrannical consensus rather than truth
SARS: a warning about tyrannical health bureaucracies
I was reading through Jeremy Clarkson’s The World According to Clarkson – a collection of his Sunday Times columns from way back…
The Age of Audits
Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…
Laurence Fox: sacrificed to the gods of eco-fascism
The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist…
Travels through the ruins of culture
The uneasy groan, stutter, and clunking of the modern age rises through the square in Italy’s coastal port of Trieste.…
‘Online Safety’ legislation is not about protecting children
Every time a politician tries to sell the idea of internet censorship, they wrap its wolfish features in the fluffy…
The Voice is the latest saviour cult
Is Western Civilisation’s middle-class being pranked? The people we thought we knew – peers, colleagues, relatives, and friends – are…
