Marian Tomsey

Trains, plains and escalators

20 January 2021 5:00 pm

Vladimir Lenin once said that there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. The events two…

Don’t trendy economic types believe catastrophe is good for the economy? Why are they silent now?

14 August 2020 5:00 am

It is the Keynesians who believe that disasters are good for economic growth. They have suggested that events such as…

Josh just doesn’t get it

12 May 2020 4:54 pm

Josh Frydenberg still doesn’t get it  The Treasurer delivered a grim economic outlook today, giving figures that have not been…

An alphabet for ‘progressives’

15 July 2019 5:00 am

Progressivism has become so pervasive that it’s about time that a children’s book was written for the political left. We’ve…

Before you vote for Kerryn Phelps in Wentworth…

19 October 2018 11:15 am

Step with me, if you will, through the mists of time; back to an era when there was a high-quality…

Don’t say ABC reporting on the Wentworth shit-sheet has been selective?

18 October 2018 2:06 pm

Lawks-a-mussy me! Don’t say the ABC’s reporting on the Wentworth shit-sheet has been selective? Here’s what the workers’ soviet ferociously…

The victimhood Olympics

30 September 2018 1:26 pm

When you don’t have real stories; when your “journalists” aren’t experienced or credible enough to get real stories — or…

The Age of sectarian bigotry

22 September 2018 2:51 pm

When that Serena Williams cartoon appeared, The Age was deeply offended. One of its ragtag crew of perpetually po-faced columnists,…

It’s all over for Tony Abbott. Allegedly all over…

16 September 2018 1:59 pm

Updated: 7:30 pm, September 17 It’s all over for Tony Abbott — or so they claim. Fairfax boy wonder Bevan…

The camera never lies, but Fairfax does

15 September 2018 5:06 pm

For once, the idiot children at The Age appeared to have a pretty good story this week. They didn’t even…

Great to see Fairfax journos exploring new careers

7 September 2018 6:23 pm

Great to see Fairfax journalists exploring new career options. It’s even better — given Fairfax’s predilection for indulging whingers —…

The Age collapses – in more ways than one

31 August 2018 3:46 pm

It’s often been said that the Melbourne Age’s world ends with the tramlines. Beyond is “Here be monsters” territory. As…

The Fairfax reshuffle scoop

26 August 2018 8:11 pm

For two hours after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced his new ministry, this is all The Age had on the…

How the spill looks to Fairfax’s job snobs

22 August 2018 7:29 pm

Such horrible elitism. Such snobbery. Such privilege on display — and from publications so woke. We need a hashtag. We…

Fairfax goes whinging to the grave, entirely lacking self-awareness

26 July 2018 1:36 pm

Yes, it’s sad. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age were great newspapers in their day. They did not just…

I only buy it to line the budgie cage…

24 July 2018 6:29 pm

We live in an era where journalism has been traduced by its practitioners to such a degree nothing should surprise…

Since when was Sydney in the Adelaide Hills?

13 June 2018 5:50 pm

Georgina Downer is not everyone’s cup of tea. Even some usually conservative types aren’t sure if the folk of the…

Check your privilege, Yassmin

15 May 2018 1:45 pm

An articulate, tertiary-educated professional with a specialist degree and access to multiple media platforms to make themselves heard throws a…

Daniel Andrews, mansplainer

13 May 2018 7:40 pm

Look at those hands, those legs — and he’s sitting higher than her! Look at the tip of his tie!…

Do you hate your mother? Read on…

13 May 2018 11:02 am

Do you hate your mother? Hate? Like really hate? Is Mother’s Day a source of constant pain and distresses as…

Why the Greens are headed for the wilderness

7 May 2018 7:31 pm

The Greens are headed for the wilderness. Why? Because they’re not just nongs, but hypocritical nongs; blinded by their own…

The Age encourages theft from churches?

23 April 2018 8:01 pm

Back in February what’s left of Fairfax’s three metropolitan titles — The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Canberra Times…

Is this the single most stupid ABC assertion ever?

19 April 2018 7:02 pm

As a venerable publication just shy of its190th birthday The Spectator has to eschew hyperbole (don’t use the Julia Gillard…

The Age’s strange but short-lived honesty

9 April 2018 8:45 pm

For weeks now the “Independent. Always.” Melbourne Age has been recycling Greens Party talking points — sorry, let’s be specific…

In which their ABC outdoes itself

18 March 2018 6:58 pm

On Friday Fairfax media — Fairfax media, mind you, not The Australian — reported: ABC journalists should focus more on…