Guest notes
Millenial Notes
Nothing’s quite so bloody tedious as that niche of right-wing media devoted solely to Millennial-bashing. Some ‘journalists’ get paid big…
Shark Notes
Bloodlust of the greenies First they came for the surfers, and I did not speak out because… wait. What? Surfers…
Art notes
Prompted by Neil Brown’s perceptive analysis of the role of arts administrator (‘Brown Study’, 22/4) as among the more useless…
Immigration notes
Anzac Day was the day I fell in love with Australia. There’s no greater testament – none at all –…
Conservative notes
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether Marine Le Pen or Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France on May 7. As…
Dis-con notes
Decision time Recent events make it necessary for us Dis-Cons to ask where things now stand. Despite ever-mounting evidence against…
Canadian notes
Liking/loathing Trump I’m over in Canada for another few days and while here have been getting a lot of news…
Trumpian notes
My phone rings; a name flashes across the screen. Giorgio. ‘It’s done,’ he says in his husky Greek accent. With…
Smoker’s notes
Well, it’s finally happened. A life of debilitating asthma and six years of chain-smoking unfiltered cigarettes have finally come to…
Conservative notes
O’Sullivan’s Law & the Ramsay Centre John O’Sullivan is a British journalist, one time editor of the US’s National Review,…
Terrorism notes
Nothing to do with Islam Westminster attacker acted alone and motive may never be known. Well, that settles it. That…
Del-con notes
Terry, you’re wrong… My esteemed fellow Speccie contributor Terry Barnes last week offered some advice to the federal Coalition based…
Deplorable notes
Researching for my last piece on Enoch Powell, I was more than a little amused to read about the abuse…
Booze notes
Boycotting the marketplace of ideas For many years now, Coopers Pale Ale has been the favourite drink of Australia’s progressives.…
Racial notes
I’m offended by… 18c According to the human rights bureaucrats and multicultural industry lobbyists who have opposed any changes to…
Dis-con notes
The next abbott ministry (part ii) On November 19 (‘Dis-Con Notes: The Next Abbott Ministry’) I canvassed prerequisites for the…
US talk circuit
Hating trump The talk circuit has started up again in Manhattan, and the good news is that, unusually, Australia featured…
Jewish notes
Bob Hawke’s conditional friendship In Bob Hawke’s recent article (Australian Financial Review, 13 February) he claims that it is a…
Immigration notes
February 8 was Enoch Powell’s death day, God rest him. I observed it by reading his Collected Poems, a stately…
Conservative notes
Conservatism is the new Punk The other day, I logged onto eBay and ordered a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat.…
Deplorable notes
First, an apology. In my cover story last week (‘The Cory revolution’) I implied that Miranda Devine supported the Turnbull…
Brexit notes
Things have changed Only Harrogate, York and Leeds voted Remain in the European Referendum in Yorkshire last year. This was…
Deplorable notes
Welcome-ish news from the Australian last week: ‘With the Syrian rebel front crumbling under the combined might of a Russian…
Deplorable notes
Commentators here in America called President Trump’s (sweet Jesus, does that sound good) inauguration speech ‘dark’, proving again their own…
Inauguration notes
The Worst President When it was said that Malcolm Turnbull is the worst Australian Liberal Prime Minister since Sir William…
