David Flint

Lock up the politicians

7 December 2019 9:00 am

A favourite argument of the elites is that something is ‘inevitable’  or, more subtly, ‘the planets are aligned’. Blasting what…

Guilt by association

30 November 2019 9:00 am

It was inevitable that Prince Andrew’s interview would be used to support a push for a politicians’ republic. Janet Albrechtsen…

Water, water everywhere

23 November 2019 9:00 am

These words from Coleridge’s great poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could have been the theme of the 2018…

Labor’s lamentable loss

16 November 2019 9:00 am

The question Labor grandees Craig Emerson and Jay Weatherill should have asked in their review of the ALP’s loss in…

Treachery of the elites

9 November 2019 9:00 am

The greatest struggle in the West, and especially amongst the English-speaking nations, is an internal one. This is not to…

PM abdicates responsibility

2 November 2019 9:00 am

The drought is our greatest problem today. While they can’t make it rain, it is elementary that governments can move…

Politicians are responsible for the drought

26 October 2019 9:00 am

‘I’m going to make a shitload of money.’ Peter, a farmer, listened intently to the merchant banker boasting to the…

Hold on, what about Holdaway?

19 October 2019 9:00 am

What do the years 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300 and 1400 AD have in common, asks British Professor,…

Coyote and Road Runner

12 October 2019 9:00 am

The biggest news story for years has been a real-life depiction of those classic cartoons, Coyote and Road Runner. In…

Revenge of the Remoaners

5 October 2019 9:00 am

If the UK Supreme Court’s decision on the prorogation or ending of the current session of Parliament were handed in…

Hit and run journalism

28 September 2019 9:00 am

Having failed to reverse the 2016 election through impeachment or declaration of mental impairment, the American mainstream media are determined…

Our unique opportunity

21 September 2019 9:00 am

Australia, more than any other, is a child of the two great English-speaking nations. They have for two centuries successively…

Prince Andrew’s trial by media

14 September 2019 9:00 am

In this year’s Star Chamber trial by media, Prince Andrew has been found guilty with instructions to with- draw from…

Alan Jones: tribune of the people

7 September 2019 9:00 am

David Flint writes: Alan Jones, probably the most influential commentator in the Australian media has announced his retirement from leading…

Fake constitutional change

31 August 2019 9:00 am

The 20th Anniversary of the landslide victory by the rank-and-file over a juggernaut of Australia’s elites —the mainstream media, most…

Moment of evil

24 August 2019 9:00 am

It was a moment of sheer evil. This was when the closely guarded secret bill to allow the killing of…

True leadership personified

17 August 2019 9:00 am

Although Napoleon said that every soldier carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, great leaders are rare. Since Churchill, the…

A culture of death imposed by deceit

10 August 2019 9:00 am

The adoption of an abortion law so extreme it sanctions the killing of any innocent who dares survive has been…

Certify the political class?

3 August 2019 9:00 am

‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’ The truth of this ancient proverb has been demonstrated by the…

Distracting from real reform

27 July 2019 9:00 am

Constitutional ‘recognition’ of the  indigenous people is but the latest in a series of silver bullets proposed by the elites…

Morality managers

13 July 2019 9:00 am

Financially rewarded beyond the wildest dreams of rank-and-file Australians, some of the nation’s managerial elites are labouring under a delusion.…

Pass the tax cuts now – or has Labor forgotten May 18?

3 July 2019 8:44 pm

Along with President Trump, readers of Spectator’s Flat White should not have been at all surprised by the victory of…

Head of State under PM’s guillotine

1 July 2019 12:26 pm

In 1999 Australians wisely rejected the elite’s attempts to persuade them to adopt Malcolm Turnbull’s republic. Turnbull is now insisting…

Albo – more of the same

22 June 2019 9:00 am

Greeted by the naive as a breath of fresh air, the only significant difference Anthony Albanese has demonstrated from his…

Press and government at war. Thank heavens

15 June 2019 9:00 am

The suggestion that Australia may well be the world’s most secretive democracy is even more ludicrous when we consider its…