‘Healthy’ Pornography for Kiddies
One of the many disturbing features of our modern secular world is the realization that there is an active cohort…
What are eco-fascist concepts doing in Australia’s law?
Recent Australian High Court rulings on issues of Aboriginality have taken a strange turn, and not for the better. It…
Sinking the nation
The Korean Ferry Sewol, at 20 years old, had already been on the Incheon to Jeju run for just over…
Hunter Biden is protected from on high
In his texts, Hunter Biden depicts himself as Atlas, carrying his entire family on his back — their financial and…
A tale of two leaders
This Flat White article is written by a guest author. This is a tale of two Liberal leaders in Australia:…
Central banks need laxer inflation targets
The cost of reducing inflation to 2 per cent seems too high
Emmanuel Macron should sink more pints
Civilisation’s last line of defence runs through the Élysée Palace. Emmanuel Macron has been lambasted by his opponents for necking…
The UK still needs fossil fuels, whether activists like it or not
The Supreme Court is hearing a case today that, if successful, could mean the end of new fossil fuel projects in…
Literary festivals are no fun
This is the season when literary festivals start to happen all over the UK. From the highlands of Scotland to…
Rishinomics isn’t working
Tax rises would bring debts under control. The Bank of England would bring inflation back down again. The government would…
It’s becoming ever clearer that climate change is a class issue
It’s not news that we live in a New Medieval age of Magical Thinking, when the Enlightenment is seen as…
There’s still little hope that the Titan will be found
The thought of laying eyes on the wreck of Titanic has tantalised the world since the ship’s rediscovery in 1985. Now the…
Germany can’t continue to ignore Polish pleas for war reparations
The Nazi occupation of Greece decimated its finances, left hundreds of thousands of civilians dead and all but destroyed the…
Sunak’s debt target is slipping out of reach
Threadneedle Street will have all the economic limelight this week as the Bank of England sets interest rates tomorrow. With…
Britain risks turning into a stagflation nation
Inflation figures out this morning make for grim reading: the headline rate didn’t budge, sticking at 8.7 per cent on…
Biden is right: China’s Xi is a ‘dictator’
Just as a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day, so president Joe Biden, amidst the plethora of…
Thorpe: The King’s position is to wipe us out
Yesterday, the Australian Senate passed legislation enabling the Voice to Parliament referendum to take place in the next 6 months. Constitution…
Local scientists use AI to determine Covid is ‘extremely well adapted for humans’
‘Pandemic’ might be the first prominent ‘P-word’ one might use to describe the period between 2020-22, and now ‘polarising’ very…
Why Menzies still matters
Matthew Bach’s piece Menzies is dead. It’s time for the Liberals to forge a new path in The Age on June…
The West’s child exploitation scandal: groomers and abusers
One Nation is referring the Classification Board to a Senate inquiry regarding the creep of inappropriate content that has made…
The Kremlin is still afraid of Alexei Navalny
As Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is once again in court, facing charges that could extend his time in prison…
On Fox, Trump admits: this terrible idea was his own
In my line of sight from my office, beside stacks of books and magazines, between unplugged lamps and cigar boxes,…
Is this the end of the road for Meghan?
Has there ever been a more brutally effective piece of social satire than the South Park episode that mocked Harry and Meghan?…
Mark Zuckerberg won’t kill Twitter
Is Mark Zuckerberg losing his touch? Having just thrown tens of billions at his weird virtual-reality ‘metaverse’, only to see…
Neither party is fully trusted on the economy
Jeremy Hunt was bombarded by MPs worried about the ‘mortgage timebomb’ when he took Treasury questions in the Commons today.…
