Alexandra Marshall

MADness – Labor’s intellectual dark ages

29 September 2024 7:38 am

M.A.D. MAD. This is the nickname cleverly given to the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. My only regret is that I…

Remembering Diana 27 years later

2 September 2024 2:00 pm

It has been 27 years since Princess Diana tragically died in a car accident in Paris. That makes her one…

Did the conservatives lose on purpose?

13 August 2024 1:23 am

The right have to rekindle their political soul without losing their minds

Petrodollars, climate change, and the end of the world as we know it

7 July 2024 1:05 am

Quietly, America’s petrodollar deal expired. June 8 marked the end of an agreement signed in 1974 between Saudi Arabia and…

I, goldfish

2 July 2024 12:03 pm

The death of the human attention span is real

Dutton’s disaster: facial recognition to access social media

13 June 2024 12:26 pm

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

10 June 2024 11:18 am

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

20 May 2024 12:07 am

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

12 May 2024 9:45 am

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

6 May 2024 4:50 am

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

28 April 2024 6:29 pm

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

24 April 2024 1:15 pm

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

24 March 2024 1:17 pm

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

10 March 2024 2:02 pm

‘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

3 March 2024 12:07 pm

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

14 February 2024 4:00 am

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’

20 January 2024 11:59 am

Jordan Peterson upsets academia. Their determination to ‘shut him up’ has little to do with arguments about free speech and…

Existential

14 January 2024 10:54 pm

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

6 January 2024 1:02 pm

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?)

3 January 2024 3:55 am

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?

4 December 2023 10:53 pm

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

19 November 2023 1:16 pm

We live in an Age where science is governed by a tyrannical consensus rather than truth

SARS: a warning about tyrannical health bureaucracies

29 October 2023 12:27 pm

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

23 October 2023 12:23 am

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

5 October 2023 3:51 am

The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist…