Why the left has seized on political correctness and cancel culture
I first warned about the dangers of political correctness in the early 1990s after reading the American academic Dinesh D’Souza’s…
Do you want woke with that?
Such is the dominance of political correctness and cultural-left ideology that society is now awash with virtue signalling and kowtowing…
Colonial Brewing? Filthy, phallocentric Spotted Dick? Don’t laugh. This is serious
A Western Australian brewery is yet another innocent victim of cancel culture because of its name, ‘Colonial Brewing’. Add Coon Cheese to the list and…
Reaping the whirlwind: the darkness of three decades of PC
A generation ago I first warned about the insidious and dangerous nature of political correctness, arguing the neo-Marxist inspired concept…
Blacktivists ignore the real plight of indigenous Australia
Virtue-signalling, woke demonstrations are misplaced
Oiks & the Panda-demic
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the fraudulent elites - yet again
In this crisis Victoria University is there for the community, keeping us laughing with woke inanities
In his 1996 Boyer Lectures titled ‘The View from the Bridge,’ the eminent Australian academic Pierre Ryckmans argued the university…
The long march to kindy
Today’s primary and secondary schools have been infested with Marxist doctrine
Sorry, Snarling Clementine, but the UN says we’re a leader in treating women well and gender equity
The burial this week of Hannah Clarke and her three children after their appalling and horrific murder by an evil…
How is only teaching climate catastrophism in schools discussion and debate?
One of the central tenets of a worthwhile, rigorous and balanced education system is there is room for disagreement, discussion…
Roger Scruton: insightful, perceptive, persuasive – and enduring
Conservatives around the world will be mourning the death of Sir Roger Scruton, a towering intellect and cultural critic whose…
Brainwashing your kids
In The New Authoritarianism, University of Sydney academic Salvatore Babones makes the telling observation that while elected politicians might believe…
Monday’s Q&A: simply a sign of the size of our problem
If ever the Australian public and our politicians needed additional evidence of how biased, vulgar and politically correct woke the…
Political correctness eats at the soul of the West
I first wrote about political correctness in 1993 after buying a copy of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary & Handbook…
Einstein, Marx and the scourge of suicide
Prime Minister Morrison’s commitment to addressing the escalating rate of suicide is commendable and much needed. Given 3,128 Australians committed…
Our universities are dying
Examples of how universities have been captured by politically correct groupthink and cultural left ideology abound. Bettina Arndt being denied…
Fighting back in the gender wars
Israel Folau is right to condemn gender fluidity and the push to get children and adolescents to transition. Folau also…
On aspirational edubabble
The Melbourne Declaration published in 2008 is the road map that education ministers and state, territory and commonwealth bureaucracies have…
Why not ‘Welcome to Christianity’?
Imagine the outcry by the inner city limousine Left and the free-trade, almond latte drinkers if the Victorian Labor government…
Education and the modern declaration
The 2008 Melbourne Declaration, endorsed by state, territory and commonwealth education ministers, is the strategic ‘road map’ that has directed…
Secularism – the new firebrand religion
The Australian Senate is currently considering a bill sponsored by the ALP’s Senator Wong that, if accepted, will amend the…
The Left’s heart of darkness
When detailing the origins of the culture wars the British conservative politician Michael Gove refers to the establishment of the…
Virtue versus vague values
Which is preferable: values or virtues? The question might appear overly academic and of little relevance but how it is…
We don’t need no enculturation
What is the purpose of education? The question is rarely asked as school funding dominates the debate along with the…
Grievance studies gone to the dogs
If it wasn’t so serious the recent example of peer-reviewed journals being duped would be laughable. Confirming Orwell’s observation that…
