Welcome to the Age of the Goldfish
I hope you all have a good memory, because you are going to need it. Modern political events are being…
The Great Purge
Beneath the noise of America’s Capitol Hill protests lurks the silent rise of Silicon Valley. Tens of thousands of social…
Nancy Pelosi shows: gender is for bigots
Author’s Note: my editor refused to remove his (its) comments. Apologies. Stand and applaud, a great injustice has been corrected…
How good is ScoMo’s ‘new and improved formula’ national anthem?
Ever since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (ridiculous) decision to announce via Tweet the changing of Australia’s national anthem, the usual…
2020: The year in review with Alexandra Marshall
If we have learned anything from 2020, it’s ‘don’t eat bats’. From Ebola to Covid, these winged Petri dishes have proved…
The Greens: we’re washed up
Can I interest anyone in a festive tea-towel? The Australian Greens are flogging a new range optimistically titled ‘legends’ featuring…
The tests are in – and Kev’s caught bots
Poor Kevin Rudd, standing there in front of Twitter, holding up his little bot-infested petition. I was going to write…
The fox among the pigeons
Our empty streets have been taken over by pigeons and politicians. The cooing mass scratches around inside the halls of…
Departures all round?
Shocking Chinese whispers came out yesterday that Vladimir Putin – supreme leader of Russia’s ‘totally not a dictatorship’ dictatorship –…
Marx’s zombies
It is time we start listening to our kids. No, I haven’t lost my mind… Social discord, previously dismissed as…
The Murdoch Royal Commission is one man’s inadequacy
There is an unpleasant screaming and stamping of feet coming from aisle three where a toddler has been divested of…
Twitter taps out
There is a truth universally acknowledged that when Twitter mucks around with its shadowy algorithms, the whole platform reaches censorship…
Why I’m dressing as Daniel Andrews this Halloween
Halloween is the greatest moral dilemma facing Western Civilisation. What started out as a bit of fun involving spooks and…
A republic – or Krazy King Kev?
Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, and Peter FitzSimons all fancy themselves Australia’s next king. Not as a constitutional monarch with limited…
Capslock campaigning
Last night, President Donald Trump ran a little experiment on us. It came in the form of rapid-fire CAPSLOCK tweets,…
Why has Victoria become a danger zone for journalists?
Asking meticulous questions of Premier Daniel Andrews is the fastest way to get yourself sent to the gulag. China hasn’t…
Australia is fed up watching premiers engage in bondage-play with the free market
When a nation has as many public servants as there are genders, you’d bank on a few geniuses being mixed…
Sweden’s success mocks our folly
Sweden matters. It sits there like a thousand-foot skyscraper in the middle of a medieval town, casting awkward shadows over…
The CFMMEU’s dirty little secret
There’s a rather clever ad kicking around featuring a naked miner, holding his work hat over his genitals, accusing the…
Footballers in, desperate Australians who want to see dying loved ones? How do you help us win the election?
Only the ‘compassionate’ left on Twitter could trend #ScottyTheBully as a defensive response to the cruel, heartless Annastacia Palaszczuk and…
How can singing “Never, never, never shall be slaves” upset Black Lives Matter?
You would imagine that a song about ‘never, never, never’ being slaves would make the Black Lives Matter movement happy. Aside…
How white was my tele
Racism is a diverse creature. It survives as a pilot-fish ideology that attaches itself to human civilisation, suckled at the…
Cultural notes
Swimming in the Twitterverse What even is Twitter? Speaking as a creature who evolved in its depths, I feel a…
Superglued to socialism
‘With love & rage…’. This is how an existential threat to civilisation signs off. The cute tag hangs below Extinction…
Keneally sells out
It is not the easiest thing in the world to cause a stir among conservatives. They are often described as…
