Arthur Chrenkoff

Why it’s all too white in Westeros

22 April 2019 8:43 pm

The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the…

Twice lucky – but for how long?

11 April 2019 1:17 pm

The other day having a coffee with an old friend we pondered, among more cheerful topics, the state of politics…

Who says we shouldn’t speak about ‘Cultural Marxism’?

28 March 2019 3:14 pm

It hasn’t been a good week for Brexiteers: A former Brexit minister and current Conservative MP has been criticised by…

Our bureaucrats now want to decide “what freedoms society ought to tolerate”?

25 March 2019 5:19 pm

One perhaps should not make too much out of remarks of one public official, no matter how senior – and…

The Christchurch killer behind the headlines

16 March 2019 8:18 pm

What makes a man apparently plan in cold blood for two years the mass murder of his fellow human beings,…

Climate strike? In my day it was nuclear first strike

15 March 2019 5:56 pm

Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction…

Why myopic Millennials have red stars in their eyes

12 March 2019 8:05 pm

Irony is still not dead, despite never-ending attempts on its life – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to slag off capitalism at…

ABC Barbie

9 March 2019 8:07 am

Congratulations to Ita Buttrose for being designated the next ABC chair, where the former Murdoch and Packer editor will no…

Won’t somebody please think of not having children?

7 March 2019 7:28 am

There is now a group of some 60 men and women apparently, and no doubt growing fast, not least thanks…

Julie Bishop and the wars of succession

4 March 2019 7:35 am

While Julie Bishop is retiring from politics at the next election, the recriminations and regrets that have been flowing through…

Journalist commits career suicide: tells truth on bias

24 February 2019 8:22 am

CBS News foreign correspondent and a 60 Minutes regular Lara Logan gets interviewed by a retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland for his…

Donald Trump. Worst. Homophobe. Evah.

22 February 2019 12:30 pm

Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay…

ISIS MILFs* want back in

21 February 2019 12:13 pm

In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a…

Socialism: a Millennial religion?

20 February 2019 7:35 am

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed…

Switching off a nation: no-coal Germany

14 February 2019 6:42 pm

In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds…

Alexandria’s new Children’s Crusade

11 February 2019 8:34 pm

Ben Shapiro twitted last week that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic…

Crazy Rich Commies

7 February 2019 7:59 pm

There nothing new or surprising in the fact that the self-proclaimed friends of the workers are living it up while…

Fr Rod: don’t give them your poor yearning to breathe free

6 February 2019 3:16 pm

Gosford’s finest continues to deliver, this time with this insightful critique of American society gleaned from, presumably, The Hunger Games:…

January 26: the least worst day for Indigenous Australians?

26 January 2019 2:00 pm

There is no doubt that Stone Age hunter and gatherer societies, having ruled the roost for hundreds of thousands of…

Wait a day, then comment

23 January 2019 7:27 pm

The mainstream media – let alone social media – are so good at generating instant outrage that I now have…

Peter Costello: smirk back in langour

21 January 2019 8:26 pm

Nostalgia has strange powers. With Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe…

No meat and two veg?

20 January 2019 7:01 pm

As the social mediaverse keeps discussing pros and cons of Gillette’s new ad, here comes PETA with the creepiest possible…

Is Tim Soutphommasane Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in drag?

14 January 2019 6:00 pm

At “The Sydney Morning Herald”, the former race discrimination commissioner Tim Sensitive-About-His-Name sings the praises of one of the new…

Politics is getting nastier because we’re getting dumber

3 January 2019 5:57 pm

An intriguing argument from a British politician and writer Dan Hannan: The fall in IQ scores in the West is…

Cirque du Sharia

1 January 2019 12:27 pm

Perhaps rejoicing at Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban are working hard not to…