Flat White

In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Living in hope for peace

19 February 2024 2:30 am

Why is there no peace in the Middle East? Why is there no progress towards the two-state solution, the ‘obvious’…

The solution to our government-induced malaise

19 February 2024 2:00 am

Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when…

Alexandra Marshall Live S2E3: John Roskam on the Magna Carta, a tax revolt that gave us liberty!

19 February 2024 12:45 am

Can tax reform set us free? Former Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and now Senior Fellow, John…

Solar ain’t gonna save us

18 February 2024 7:13 pm

Regardless of what I want, my phone keeps an eye out for trending stories in the world of Renewable energy.…

Soulless medicine

18 February 2024 1:00 am

A doctor wary of coming face-to-face with a patient is a real worry

Is Deadpool cultural containment?

17 February 2024 12:57 pm

With the possibility of countless spin-offs and sequels, superhero movies are typically a licence to print money. Think about Marvel…

‘Article Pfizer’ – France to punish criticism of mRNA vaccines

17 February 2024 1:35 am

France, the nation that likes to boast about its approach to liberty and free speech, has passed a law through…

Wikipedia: how safe is crowdsourcing the truth?

17 February 2024 1:00 am

Have you ever wondered what feeds your internet search results on Google, Yahoo, or Bing? What about question-answering systems such…

The master manipulator

16 February 2024 12:24 pm

Let’s be clear. Tucker Carlson didn’t interview Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin addressed Americans through Tucker Carlson. The mainstream media’s horror…

Eiffel power – France’s nuclear charge

16 February 2024 3:00 am

21 world leaders pledge to triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 by 2050

Blind climate faith leaves us in the dark

16 February 2024 2:00 am

The West’s Net Zero policies are the ultimate act of zealous faith

Double Shot S2E3: Even music is racist… Alexander Voltz and Julian Gillespie

16 February 2024 12:45 am

Composer and commentator Alexander Voltz discovered there is no escape from the Woke mind virus when he went to enter…

West’s moral ground sodden with tears for the guilty

15 February 2024 8:40 pm

If you want absolute proof that the West is built on Judeo-Christian principles, the unconditional absolving of Hamas after its…

Climate change and famine: two sides of Agenda 2030

15 February 2024 4:04 am

Adopted by a United Nations General Assembly Resolution on 25 September 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is composed…

Conceptual error in climate change analysis

15 February 2024 1:00 am

It is often said that the ‘science is in on climate change’. Is it? We should always adhere to the…

Why I miss Michael Crichton

14 February 2024 4:00 am

Western culture is a mess and the side of common sense seems to be drowning under the well-funded forces of…

The presumption of guilt

14 February 2024 3:00 am

In a sweltering, steamy Queensland summer, strange things happen when it gets too hot to handle. Violent crime was the…

Activists accuse Rowan Atkinson of fuelling the Climate ‘Crisis’ after criticising EVs

14 February 2024 2:30 am

Rowan Atkinson is being (bizarrely) accused of hurting EV sales after saying electric vehicles are all show, no substance. Left-wing…

Our children do not belong to the State

14 February 2024 2:00 am

The Culture of Schools and the Problem of Change was the first book I read when I was moving professionally…

Week in 60 Minutes S2E3: Did Mr Bean destroy the EV market?! James Allan, Augusto Zimmermann, and Nick Cater

14 February 2024 12:45 am

James Allan ponders the fate of Ron DeSantis after stepping aside to give Donald Trump a free run at the…

Live not by lies

13 February 2024 3:10 am

The day he was arrested by the KGB, Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released Live Not by Lies. It…

Shocking mismanagement of the Opera House protests must be investigated

13 February 2024 2:30 am

What was the NSW government thinking?

The blind men and the elephant

13 February 2024 2:00 am

We are at an extraordinary time in history. In some ways, it feels great to be alive to tell the…

Invasion Day

12 February 2024 3:20 am

Captain Cook’s only sin was to discover Australia

Woke ideology and totalitarianism

12 February 2024 3:00 am

We all know by now that society’s Adventures in Wokeland are never-ending. Thankfully, these sagas have become so annoying that…