Voting 1 for ‘least-bad’
Slim pickings at the polling booth, yet again
Lorraine Finlay, conservative governments and appointments
I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as…
Is Trudeau toast?
The Canadian election campaign is not going as the Liberals hoped
Freedom fades
Our politicians are allowing the biggest erosion of civil liberties in two centuries
Are our journalists just lazy? Or dumb?
Covid has crippled a once-noble profession
The National Cabinet is a disaster
The PM has created a presidential role for himself
The dishonesty of the political class
Good public policy-making requires a wide swathe of opinions being stirred in the cauldron of competing ideas. The jurisdiction in…
Hart was right
An old text sheds new light on our lockdown laws
Any conviction politicians out there? Hello?
Conservatives have been betrayed by the hollow men and women
Can Do can – but at Amanda Stoker’s expense
My esteemed colleague Terry Barnes, here in the ethereal pages of the Speccie Australia, this morning wrote a ‘Double Shot’ briefing piece…
Flirting with the Marxists
On Big Tech, the Democrats & censoring political opponents
The last thing we need is a bill of rights
Over a century ago the great American jurist James Bradley Thayer warned against handing social policy decision-making over to the…
The new religion of diversity
Equity is merely Marx without the beard
Australian notes
A Guide to Understanding this Pandemic We are all living through the worst inroads on our freedoms and civil liberties…
The Peter Ridd case: am I missing something?
Yesterday’s piece by Graham Young on the Peter Ridd High Court case got me thinking. Not about Young’s thesis that…
Misjudging our Constitution
Judicial activists invented the right to invalidate laws
Why the Twits cannot be taken seriously
Did you see the recent Pew surveys in the United States about Twitter? Twitter users make up under a tenth…
Pravda rides again
The press is becoming unfree
ScoMo is no Marcus Aurelius
Fans of Outsiders – Sky’s best current affairs program – will recall Ross Cameron and his love of the great Roman Emperor…
Fight to win or don’t fight at all
Here are a few quick thoughts on the Christian Porter saga. First, though, let me say bluntly what regular SpecOz…
So have the Republicans really turned away from Trump?
The right-of-centre fights back
A cynical Budget devoid of principles or beliefs
What’s the point of voting for the Liberals?
Sic ’em, Triggs!
Let’s sool the Human Rights Commissions onto the Woke
Abandon all principles ye who enter the Libs
Morrison’s ‘pragmatism’ is destroying conservatism
Good government needs a good opposition
Here’s a quick point more than a few people overlook. What a government can and cannot do politically depends in…
