So what can we say about the Podium Poet?
So let’s talk about the poetry thing and the poet who read poetry at the inauguration. America’s National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman who recited the…
Not the death of democracy – not even close
Contrary to the aphorism and what you’re seeing in America, things don’t fall apart, the centre nearly always holds. Despite what you read democracy…
Dr Jill and the importance of being qualified
Dr Jill wants to be Dr Phil, that is the question: whether you are a wanker for calling yourself a Doctor when you’re…
The strange sexism of Anita Recount
Forget bonk ban. The real sex hang-ups — or more accurately — sexuality hang-ups seem to be from progressive types…
Death of a feminist
I have written before about Hot for Teacher. The Van Halen guitar rock megahit was a touchstone for cultural norms…
I don’t like Donald Trump, but don’t hate him enough to be fashionable
Just for the record because everything is on the record: I doubt I could ever vote for Donald Trump. My…
Biden-Harris, Harris-Biden: the epitome of post-truth politics
The endgame isn’t Donald Trump. With the Democratic Convention coronation complete and campaigning underway, It’s Biden-Harris; America’s Seinfeld ticket, a…
Trump’s RNC speech: the great middle America gamble
The Orange Man is cheating. He’s Teleprompter Trump but we want Rally Trump crazy that will play badly on middle…
The granddad speech
CNN is saying the Biden speech proves he isn’t an old man, even though anyone with elderly parents would recognize…
Bleak thoughts from Bleak City
I was with the best minds of my generation – chartered accountants, real estate agents, Instagram influencers living off the…
Australia’s problematic arts culture
The ideological closed shop that is Australia’s creative classes isn’t really a secret even if the artists themselves insist on…
Lockdown Diary
90 Days in lockdown – a retrospective Day 1 – you configure your bathroom into a replica of your…
“They’re everywhere, those Hi-Vis Guys, polishing up to stay alive.”
Somewhere in a Melbourne suburban street near you, someone in an orange Hi-Vis vest is polishing a lamppost with disinfectant…
There is no Trump World
There is no Trump World. Nations are not the sum of their political parts. The personal is political is not…
I see dead people
Beaming Boris attends the birth of his son showing the political power of looking healthy. Juxtapose COVID Boris in intensive care,…
Everyone thinks they’re a great writer when corona cabin fever strikes
Pandemic Poetry On isolation How the hell do you spell pendemic anyway? Maybe I should use a thesaurus, no that…
I, for one, welcome our new People’s Republic of ScoMo
Welcome to Socialism World, where everything is paid for. ‘Yeah, nah’, as we say here in the People’s Republic of…
How to survive the end of the world
From toilet paper to George Clooney
The race to the White House: it’s the penis or vagina thing
Given the choice between an old socialist white woman who used to do appearances on Dr Phil and an old…
The importance of being Karl
Why we fell out of love with the reinstated Today host
Why it’s fine to laugh at Greta Thunberg
During an end-of-year review on the ABC’s serious definitely not tabloid 7.30, Australian celebrity and journalistic vox pops spoke glowingly…
When woke comes to town
The Australian leg of U2’s Joshua Tree tour is almost over and everyone can relax. Bono will slip his clothes…
Q&A and the inalienable right to be batshit crazy
The right to go batshit crazy is one of those inalienable rights. Like the right to bear arms and the…
Turkey, Syria and the Kurds: this is not just Donald Trump’s evil
While most fixate on the betrayal in Trump’s decision to withdraw troops and leave the Kurds to the mercy of…
Notes from a street protest
Coralines Emo Coraline look-a-like protesters from expensive Toorak Girls Private with an excellent fine arts program wave protest signs and…
