Banksy, Michael Spence and the shredding of 3000 years
“It appears we just got Banksy-ed.” So said Alex Branczik, the head of contemporary European art at the auction house…
The private life of the Honey Badger
In a week where most of the Australian mainstream media have been focused on Nick (aka, ‘the-honey-badger’) Cummins’ antics in…
Ten flaws with Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony
I once heard of a young woman who decided to become a Christian after reading a single verse from the…
Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo inquisition
One particular aspect that has been repeatedly overlooked—yes, I’m referring to you Huffington Post—throughout the whole judicial fiasco involving the…
Ten reasons why having children is a good idea
The NHS Trust in the town of Walsall, east of Birmingham in what was once the heart of Britain’s industrial…
So what will you do about “gender whisperers”, Prime Minister?
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said earlier this week that the reason why he has chosen to send his daughters to…
Sexuality quotas? Really?
Remember when Lisa Wilkinson—the highly-paid host of Channel Ten’s, The Project—claimed that ‘absolutely nothing’ would change with the redefinition of…
Fr Rod: blowback – or blowhard?
Did you happen to see Madonna’s ‘tribute’ speech to Aretha Franklin at this year’s MTV music awards? The reason I…
Don’t say Cory was right after all?
Tom Raue, the Greens candidate for Summer Hill in NSW, has recently been in the news for publishing two separate…
Do we have an ADF gender dissembler?
Forget about all the recent furore over the politically correct ‘They Day’ fiasco, where the approximately 10,000 staff of the…
The Ruby Rose Batwoman PC Comics special
Forget about the Australian Defence Force getting rid of gender-neutral pronouns, or the inequity of transgender athletes competing in sporting…
Australian unis: no thinking allowed
If you’re still in any doubt as to the insidious influence of the Left’s long march through nearly all of…
After euthanasia, then what?
Peter van Onselen was right when he wrote in The Weekend Australian recently that there is an even more significant…
Going the full Kafka on free speech
It was Franz Kafka—the famous twentieth-century German writer—who once said, “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of…
The Gilead crusade?
Reverend Dr Michael Bird of Ridley College, Melbourne, is an accomplished author for The Spectator Australia as well as academically…
Free speech now carries a hefty price tag
What happened to Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux in Melbourne over the weekend is a potent example of how free…
Thank you, Ms Ford – if you’ve finished
For feminists like Clementine Ford, it seems that absolutely everything is about gender, even when the evidence tells a different…
Could this be the end of Roe vs Wade?
Well, President Trump continues to defy his critics’ dire predictions of economic catastrophe and political Armageddon. First, there is the…
The big British babies bawling about Trump – and tantrum tyranny
It seems that one of the things which people on the left fear most is being taken over by some…
How the ABC’s facile feminists boost the baser instincts
One of Australia’s least funny comedians, Tom Ballard, is at it again. No, not of being accused of sexual assault—a…
Whatever happened to that same-sex marriage boom?
Now that all the glitter has settled after last year’s non-binding voluntary postal survey—remember, we couldn’t be trusted to have…
Do the Greens go for pre-teen sexts?
It’s now official. The world has gone completely mad and the Greens have so utterly lost the plot politically that…
The Ramsay Centre? It’s still all Tony Abbott’s fault, apparently
I must say, Peter van Onselen is doing nothing for the editorial standards over at The Australian at the moment…
Religion, repentance and refugees
Tonight, in the national capital, Brian Douglas, the Rector of St Mark’s Anglican Church at Manuka and the Archdeacon on…
When the left became louche
I discovered a new word this week: ‘louche’. Just in case you hadn’t heard of it before either, according to…
