A billion dollar barrier against the UN
At a time when Australian businesses and families are Covid-broke, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has casually dropped a billion dollars…
The power of black conservatives
Black conservatism is a particular form of conservative politics. As a movement, it’s American, with strengthening echoes in the UK,…
The EHRC is right about the trans conversion therapy ban
Before I saw the statement, ‘It is with sadness and deep regret that LGBT Foundation is severing all ties with…
Why Neil Young’s Spotify boycott is a mistake
When Neil Young issued his threat to Spotify – get rid of Joe Rogan’s podcast or remove my music from…
5,000 helmets and Germany’s dark history in Ukraine
If anyone produces a ‘history in 100 objects’ for the first half of the 21st century, one of those objects…
My questions for the Royal Commission into Covid…
Senator Pauline Hanson has been pushing for a Royal Commission into the government’s handling of Covid, and demand for one…
Eric Zemmour isn’t to blame for France’s anti-Semitism crisis
Emmanuel Macron sees anti-Semitism everywhere except where it really lurks. Earlier this month his government accused protesters opposed to the…
Women’s fashion – I mean – football…?
Every sensitive new age man knows that when working with women you may comment on their professional performance, but never…
Don’t go woke, go for broke
With Australia Day vanishing in the rear-view mirror and most of the nation learning to live with Covid, the stage…
Switch off the fear porn
Most legacy media companies offer Covid propaganda not investigative journalism
French Kiss-Off
For decades the purpose of British settlement in New South Wales seemed too obvious to question. The American War of…
Don’t Look Up
How strange it is to be in a supposedly opened-up world, even as the Omicron variety of the virus shuts…
Aussie Life
Even in Australian publications of a conspicuously conservative disposition, it has been some time since any respected pundit has suggested,…
Aussie Language
Here’s a delightful expression I have just encountered: ‘offence archaeology’. This is the practice of going through the social media…
Where life is evil now
The idea of ‘pre-crime’ was popularised by Philip K. Dick’s story ‘The Minority Report’ and the 2002 Steven Spielberg film…
Letters
Russia’s star Sir: Wolfgang Münchau is surely right to highlight the risk posed to European peace and stability by Germany’s…
