Nerds, nannies and dictators
Young nerds in Silicon Valley are now the rule-makers of culture across the western world. Culture, identity, and the conflict…
A different take on the Jesus story
My favourite Christmas story … stop me if you’ve heard it. According to the late Sydney theologian Dr Barbara Thiering’s…
High courts and misdemeanours
Sometimes the truth is chased out of our legal system
The Dan Andrews protests v polls conundrum
Ever since the Newspoll results on Saturday, I’ve been wracking (and wrecking) my brain trying to find a logical answer…
Here are some real justice issues for the climate warriors
What a tragic shame that so much energy, time, resources and opportunities to really improve the lives of millions is…
Will we all have to take the knee?
If test cricketers such as Quinton de Kok can be compelled to ‘take the knee’ by their employer in order…
Remembering the Hungarian Uprising, 65 years on
The world gasped 65 years ago this week as Hungarian protesters were mowed down by the secret police, starting a revolution that…
Climate and Covid: the fact checks we had to have
There is no relationship between lockdowns and virus control (eg, 35 studies reported in December 2020, in American Institute for Economic…
Road to damnation 2050
I know how Net Zero 2050 ends. I’ve read the book. In Chris Brook’s excellent if devastating Road to Damnation*,…
COP this, climate sumiteers
Man does not live by bread alone, an early revolutionary once advised his followers. As Glasgow’s COP26 closes in on a discombobulated world, the…
Is Facebook really on the ropes?
It may be counter-intuitive, but American investigative and Pulitzer winning journalist Glenn Greenwald makes a strong argument that paints Facebook…
Big Tech has placed its bet – on the Genghis Khan of our time
The nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen’s greatest fear when thinking about the future has come true. He said “What I’m…
The new provocateurs of Covid
The extraordinary 1988 John Hillcoat/Nick Cave film Ghosts … of the Civil Dead is set in a slightly futuristic high-tech…
Beware Stumbling Joe’s mumbling, Scotty
When they were talking the other day in Washington the other day, did Joe Biden tell Scott Morrison his recipe…
Aussie Life
As a child in Budapest, I heard my grandfather tell the family around the Sunday lunch table to beware the…
Australia, we’ve got you cowered
If you didn’t already think so, the news that police have received thousands of calls from Aussies dobbing in other…
Imagine … no state borders to close
The premiers are tearing the federation apart. Let’s hope they succeed very soon. To see my point, just close your…
Funny how climate activists don’t seem to know how the climate works
If you listen to this week’s IPCC’s report launched in Glasgow (and to the hysterical activists burning prams outside Australia’s…
Dear (as in expensive) political leaders: you have failed
The fact that people vastly overestimate the number of deaths from Covid as recent polls have shown, is a signal…
The West must disown Big Tech Big Brother
Almost three weeks ago, Twitter suspended The Spectator Australia for 12 hours for a Tweet that paraphrased that wildly incendiary…
Question everything
On learning about the extension to Sydney’s lockdown until the end of July, my mind broiled with one big question:…
Truth on social media? Geoffrey Robertson is keen
Truth on social media? It’s a wonderful idea, one espoused by high profile human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on Sky…
Find the CO2
Man-made carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is responsible for catastrophic climate change, according to climate alarmists. We must stop…
Dishonesty, thy name is Leftie
Now that two well-credentialed academics acceptable to the left have debunked Bruce Pascoe’s blindly acclaimed ‘history’ book Dark Emu as…
Getting Ridd of junk science
As the High Court judges retire to consider the Science Case of the Year, Peter Ridd v James Cook University,…
