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Two cheers for democracy!?
Two cheers for democracy! So wrote E.M. Forster speaking for the Bloomsbury set, the affluent intellectuals who were the leading ‘Wokes’ of…
AstraZeneca’s fall from grace
I am not, nor have I ever been anti-vax, although I do have a few friends who are. I have…
All the way with the USA
It is possible the Albanese government decided one national discussion was enough. Rationalising that Australians’ concerns over the Voice would…
Elon Musk: the keys to the cage
Liberty is a wild animal: it cannot be domesticated, it refuses to be tamed, and it’ll die if you force…
Childish insults and bullying behaviour. Will the adults please enter the room?!
When Prime Minister Albanese first released the government’s plan to introduce a referendum to amend the Constitution to include an…
Why central banks will struggle to conquer inflation
Interest rates could be higher for longer than people expect
The Liberals need to thrash-out their energy policy with a debate
Defeat in the Aston by-election in Melbourne this month was a bitter blow for the Liberals. Victorian party leader, John…
Lick the world
US President Joe Biden has come up with some shockingly garbled speech moments in his short time as leader of…
My transgression confession
Moira Deeming, I have a confession to make… I crossed the line. You might not like what I did, but…
Australia, not Britain, leads the Commonwealth
Britain has a long and storied tradition of palming unwanted things off to Australia. Aside the obvious example, the Territory of…
We are all a black-box pool to the government
In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most…
‘No compromise!’ Marxist solidarity in 2023
This is a follow-up article to my Spectator Australia report last week on Marxism Conference 2023, the Australian Marxists’ three-day Easter shindig at…
The April Fools’ Day joke that wasn’t a joke
In what some experts are calling ‘the lowest point in the history of the United Nations’, the Russian Federation assumed the…
Men’s spaces were colonised by feminists first
There has been a good deal of talk lately about women’s spaces being invaded by biologically male persons identifying as…
Bud Light backs down (almost): are brands learning their lesson?
(Formerly?) popular beer brand Bud Light has suffered a major thrashing in the public forum since engaging trans social media…
Another anti-Woke film races ahead in the box office
Like kicking water up a hill or punching smoke, writing about the culture wars is often tedious and tiring. But…
Saving South Africa – and the West – from the CRT boomerang
South Africa looms large in the Western imagination. Not only as a country of strategic importance due to the commodities…
A voice of emotion, not reason – of judgment, not mercy
We humans have always been emotional. It is part of who we are as self-conscious beings. But the use of…
Alan Jones: Reflections on Easter
Easter has come and gone, but the need for reflection will never pass. In an increasingly materialistic world, it does…
Should we re-brand conservatism to ‘Freedom of Enterprise’?
It is both the name and the delivery of ‘Conservative Politics’ that is losing the votes and voters. As I…
The Voice: do not, under any circumstances, explain anything
The marketing strategy for The Voice to Parliament ‘Yes’ campaign can be written in one sentence: do not, under any…
Are mobile phones our salvation or damnation?
The insidious spread of misinformation has revealed the dark side of communication; our increasing addiction to our devices puts us…
We are all Indigenous somewhere
The Voice is an anathema to a nation that believes in equality – a nation that does not look to…
Elon Musk vs The BBC
James Clayton’s recent interview of Elon Musk is a peek behind the media curtain. And it makes for a gasp-out-loud,…
Alan Jones: Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto should be sacked and this is why
Let me be blunt. The Victorian Liberal Party leader, John Pesutto, should be sacked. The following story proves it. With…
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