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Boris Johnson’s dis-United Kingdom
With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results,…
‘Progressive’ education policy: a cure worse than the disease
Despite the now indisputable evidence that Australia’s education system has been led down a deleterious path, the proposed cure might…
What’s woke this week?
Recent news suggests that science is fast overtaking the arts at the vanguard of wokeness. The erstwhile boffins of physics…
Who needs oil if surfers can summon shamanistic energy?
If environmentalism is the new pagan religion then protests are its ritualistic ceremonies. This was the theory I was hoping…
The only unprecedented thing about these fires is the hyperbole
Growing up in what was then the peri-urban fringe of Greater Sydney near the boundary of the Ku-ring-gai National Park,…
Only big government can save us from Roquefort cheese: the 2019 Nanny Award winners unveiled
The Centre for Independent Studies’ highly uncoveted Nanny Awards (The Nannies) go to the year’s most absurd, ridiculous, and bizarre…
Socialism might seem sexy, but beware Bernie or a Corbyn catastrophe
Wherever you look, socialism is sexy again. Today, in Britain, Jeremy Corbyn is seeking election as prime minister on a…
Cheaper power coming? Blink and you’ll miss it if our Paris goals remain
There is a panoply of agencies regulating energy at the Commonwealth level and not all of these seem to be…
A pox on anti-vaxxers after Samoa’s sorrow
The death of more than 60 Samoans from their country’s latest measles outbreak shows what can happen when anti-vaxxers triumph. …
ScoMo, spite, screeching and virtue signalling smoke signals
There is one thing fouler than the air quality in Sydney right now — the abuse being hurled at our…
Doctor knows best? Here’s a tale of climate activism and censorship
Introduction When it comes to climate change, do you think that medical journals publish all the science that’s fit to…
Domestic violence is too serious an issue to be used by bigots bashing Christianity
In an article in The Conversation yesterday, Vicki Lowik (a PhD candidate at Central Queensland University) and Annabel Taylor (an associate…
Malcolm Turnbull: The Ghost Who Talks
I believe in ghosts. Most Sri Lankan-born men, women or children generally believe in the misty world of ghosts, spirits…
Why you’re probably paying more than 50 per cent of your income in tax
The government may not know how to build a working national broadband network, but they do know how to covertly…
Gender-neutral toilets don’t help our kids, but threaten them
Here is a truth you can bank on: the sexual revolutionaries never eat nor sleep, but are ever on the…
Want proper bushfire prevention policy? Draft the Greens into the RFS
No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke. For decades now…
Why the Rugby Australia settlement is the most Christian thing Israel Folau has done
So, the Folau/Rugby Australia dispute has ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. Many commentators are dissatisfied because…
Fembots go feral on Screw-up Spice
As her ABC documentary Silent No More attracts increasing heat, Tracey Spicer has reportedly retreated from public life. It’s impossible…
Gold Coast Young LNPers: pinheads, but racists? No
As a student going through high school in the 1990s in Sydney’s Western suburbs, I’d hear pretty much every day…
Call that a public service cut?
So we have the long-anticipated reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but…
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the NSW Liberals’ secret revolution
In the 75-year history of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party, there has never been more factional…
Damn due process, let’s impeach Trump anyway
We are witnessing America’s arguably most destructive political convulsion as the Democrats’ move to impeach President Donald Trump. It is…
What’s woke this week?
Food has featured strongly in wokeworld this week, along with a prestigious art award. In other news, multifarious trigger warnings…
Recognising Jerusalem, two years on
It was in the first week of December 2017, almost a year to the day after being elected President of…
The ABC’s war on ‘us’
The ABC has recently released its new editorial guidance note on “Hate Speech, Terrorism and Mass Killing”. While the document is rich…
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