The other day, Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter to complain how her “abuela” (grandma) in Puerto Rico…

In eleventh century England, King Cnut was told by his admiring courtiers that ‘there is nothing on earth that dares…

Australia’s universities need to spend less time focussing on research and international students, and more time improving and safeguarding the educational…

It is an injustice that turtles are blown up in the Gulf of Mexico because American oil companies choose a…

George Orwell must be looking down on the state of Victoria, rueing his lack of imagination. As dark as Orwell’s…

In 2016, Boris Johnson bemoaned Brussels’ influence, and correctly identified the need for a post-Brexit Britain to make many free trade…

Fans of Outsiders – Sky’s best current affairs program – will recall Ross Cameron and his love of the great Roman Emperor…

In the race to stupidity by the Australian state chief health officers, the three stellar performers, far ahead of all…

If you’re looking for the biggest losers in the culture wars, look no further than your HR manager.  Loathed in equal…

A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…

A strange thing happened on the ABC’s Weekend Breakfast last Sunday. The regular news presenters – Johanna  Nicholson and Fauziah Ibrahim – are already…

Sensuality boutique Honey Birdette has come under fire for one of their video advertisements on display outside their stores in Australian shopping centres.  …

It’s all in a day’s work for the still absent, highly paid Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews. While Dan comfortably takes…

The Bank of International Settlements, the G7 Finance Ministers and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission have amped up carbon emissions-based “climate…

For most people who work at the ATO, chasing tax evaders must be rather boring. They sit at their desks and review tax returns for undeclared income and ineligible…

With apologies to WB Yeats and Joan Didion, the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate are now slouching, not…

The suspension of English cricketer Ollie Robinson for poor form – not on the field but on Twitter — should…

As the inimitable Sir Humphrey Appleby once opined, “Minister, two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don’t…

If there is one thing that to be learned from NSW in the last 18 months, it is the fact…

First, they came for the Christians and I complained a bit, then they came for the lesbians and I was…

The Spec Oz has been warning about this. Now it’s official. Scott Morrison stands for nothing. The Sun-Herald and Sunday…

The Queensland government is denying vaccinated parents of a newborn the right to see their baby while, at the same…

The Ginger and the Whinger have welcomed a daughter into the world, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. We should all be…

Where to start?  Twitter outdid itself over the weekend when it ditched any semblance of modesty and decided to identify…