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Malthusianism needs to die before it kills us

7 January 2023 7:00 am

There’s always that one guy, standing on a street corner, raving about the ‘end times’. For the last fifty years,…

Range anxiety: Tesla’s $2.2 million fine

6 January 2023 12:00 pm

Since the first electric car silently rolled onto the street, ‘range anxiety’ has been a primary concern for customers –…

Thanks for all the fish

5 January 2023 5:00 am

Environmentalism now requires the prefix ‘real’ to separate it from its toxic cousin, eco-fascism. In terms of real environmentalism, there…

Canada to re-educate Jordan Peterson for ‘wrongthink’

4 January 2023 3:19 pm

Wokeism has destroyed Canada. We knew the situation was bad when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of…

WEF Watch: carbon accounting

2 January 2023 12:50 pm

Given the risk posed by the closed-door lobbying group more commonly known as the World Economic Forum, this year The Spectator…

Liberate New Year’s Eve

1 January 2023 6:51 pm

We are nearly at the end of the first day in 2023. Presumably, most people have ruined their resolution diet…

Bin chickens chow down on cane toads

28 December 2022 6:00 am

Cane toads have long been painted as an existential threat to Queensland’s ecosystem. Since their deliberate introduction in 1935 by…

Childish China threatens Taiwan (again)

27 December 2022 2:20 am

China has decided to finish the year by antagonising Taiwan. Reports indicate that 71 planes and 7 military ships were…

Kerryn Phelps’ vaccine injuries: the silence is deafening

21 December 2022 4:25 pm

‘…but-but-but we’re not one of those crazy, far-right, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theory, cooker, anti-vaxxers!!! We really did suffer from serious vaccine side effects!’ The…

MERS: there’s no accounting for human stupidity

20 December 2022 1:38 pm

After Monkey Pox turned out to be a real disappointment as a successor to Covid (with a rather politically awkward…

Has TikTok’s time run out?

18 December 2022 4:55 pm

The US Senate has (finally) decided to ban Chinese social media app TikTok from government devices after years of criticism…

Pandora’s box of genes: Orwell’s DNA databases

12 December 2022 9:00 am

Earlier this year in July, one of Australia’s enduring mysteries – the Somerton Man – was solved. It was the story of…

The Twitter Files: shadowbanning is real

10 December 2022 5:00 am

Headlines are awash with the accusation that former CEO Jack Dorsey – and other members of the former Twitter team…

Jane Fonda: climate change and the UN’s ‘racial sacrifice zones’

7 December 2022 2:49 pm

Actress Jane Fonda is trending on social media for the hilarious anti-science belief that racism and misogyny are causing climate…

The curious case of the vanishing Covid fines

4 December 2022 12:49 pm

On Tuesday last week, New South Wales joined the growing list of governments to quietly drop (or reimburse) Covid fines.…

LEAKED: The Twitter Files: Hunter’s Laptop

3 December 2022 2:21 pm

Someone needs to go and wake up Sleepy Joe, because Twitter CEO Elon Musk is airing the social media company’s…

Morrison: sorry – not sorry…

30 November 2022 4:49 pm

You’ve got to hand it to the Labor Party – when they get their paws on power, they waste no…

Good on the Nationals

29 November 2022 2:06 pm

An obsession with race politics is a dangerous direction for any nation to take. Enshrining racial discrimination and supremacy into…

Danistan reborn

27 November 2022 9:48 am

Well, Victorians better get ready for their dear leader to immortalise himself in bronze. Once a Premier has served (ruled?)…

Jordan Peterson: conservatism’s spiritual leader?

26 November 2022 4:00 am

Canadian political commentator and best-selling author Jordan Peterson – best known for helping young men put their lives back together…

Vic Liberals under threat from Teal insurgency

23 November 2022 3:07 pm

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and steals bread off tourists like…

Dan Andrews: Facebook’s sugar daddy

21 November 2022 7:06 pm

It’s election week for Victoria, so we can expect some pretty strange stories to pop up out of the political…

FIFA’s ignorant hypocrisy

20 November 2022 10:00 am

‘We have been told many, many lessons from some Europeans, from the Western World. I think for what we Europeans…

What does America want?

18 November 2022 1:18 pm

The time for speculation is over. Donald Trump has formally announced his intention to run for the Presidency in 2024…

In memory of the West: Scotland’s charred Remembrance Stone

16 November 2022 1:35 pm

Anger is mounting after poppy wreaths made by veterans were set on fire at the Edinburgh war memorial, Scotland, in…