Time and tithe: the Climate Cult’s expensive virtue
Virtue has always been for sale. The oldest fragments of human civilisation contain tributes left for the gods in a…
Progressive censorship is headed down the same path as the ‘Rushdie bounty hunters’
Salman Rushdie did not die. Attempts to murder the author have been numerous, but Hadi Matar is the one charged…
Renewables and rare earths: the virtuous ravishing of South Africa
South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions. It’s one of those headlines you read and assume the Babylon…
The Sydney inferno
It was happenstance that I found myself walking up from Broadway yesterday afternoon. As I came to the crest of…
Net Zero politicians: liars, scoundrels, and morons
The lies told by politicians usually have no consequences. Their intellectual dishonesty, as a species, is such that citizens go…
Bad birdie! Twitter-faithful reject Musk’s CEO
Twitter users are a resilient bunch of customers. They spent the best part of a decade living under the increasingly…
Grace, mercy, and justice: a pledge no politician can make
On Saturday, I had two great privileges. The first was to attend the ceremony for His Majesty King Charles III’s…
Modern Art: an ugly reflection
Art is a reflection of civilisation. How apt then, that the last time I wandered beside the Arts Centre in…
Elon Musk: the keys to the cage
Liberty is a wild animal: it cannot be domesticated, it refuses to be tamed, and it’ll die if you force…
Has identity politics created a state of madness?
‘Does having children change your perspective on history, politics, philosophy, and the future of humanity? If so, is part of…
The politics of hunger
Starvation has ended more than one political empire. The pages of human history are frequently chaptered by acute moments of…
A diet of political insects
Speccie Editor Rowan Dean has already described the New South Wales election perfectly in this morning’s leading article. His remarks must…
Were vaccines a political treatment for public fear?
‘All of the public health response [around Covid] appeared to be focused on ‘well’ people, and none of it was…
Chimeras: the monsters of man
In 2021, under the cover of Covid, scientists from China, Spain, and America created embryos that shared human and macaque…
Sensitivity readers: no better than Medieval statue butchers
‘Yeah, the good news is that this is a right-wing source that is probably blowing it out of proportion. But…
One-legged seagull: the cult of victimhood
There is a hardwood pier stretching out into the protected harbour where I live, styled to resemble a vintage port.…
The God delusion: men seeking womb transplants
Last week, I stumbled over the Daily Mail article titled: EXCLUSIVE: Womb transplants for TRANS women are ‘very likely in the near future’,…
Novak Djokovic: this trophy is yours, as much as it is mine
I am normally patriotic about sport, but when Novak Djokovic handed Australian Alex de Minaur his arse in the fourth…
Valley of the Whales: science, power, and politics
Wādī al-Ḥītān, also known as ‘The Valley of the Whales’, is an extraordinary paleontological site sitting 150 km south-west of…
The crimes of eco-fascism
Conservatives never should have surrendered the ground of environmental conservation to the radicalised, collectivised, totalitarian Left. Since becoming custodians of…
A ‘borderless world’? Not for carbon!
The European Union has long been known as a collection of bad ideas. On brand, it has decided to become…
An Australian Christmas
When I was small, Christmas meant visiting my nan in St Ives. Her house existed in a state of chaos,…
The joke’s on Xi: China will not keep its climate fortune
China is kidding itself if it thinks Western mining corporations and tax-hungry governments are going to sit around and let…
Aussie life
It might not be a very net-zero-friendly activity, but driving around to view the Christmas light show is part of…
Parks Australia: when bureaucracy turns racist
Imagine telling a Brit of migrant origin that they’re forbidden from visiting the White Cliffs of Dover because they are…
