Australians don’t want Big Tech censoring their views

8 April 2021 4:00 am

In a world of rampant nanny-statism, and hectoring busybodies, Australians want social media to companies to leave them alone. The…

The squeeze on tax havens is only just beginning

8 April 2021 2:10 am

The message from the budget last month was clear – at some point in the future the Chancellor is going…

Major League Baseball has made a major mistake

7 April 2021 10:18 pm

When Major League Baseball announced the removal of their All-Star Game from Atlanta, their statement directly referenced President Biden’s own…

Their ABC’s divine comedy

7 April 2021 5:02 pm

ABC viewers have complained that the public broadcaster showed footage of Hillsong easter services rather than focusing on “mainstream churches”.…

Salmond could spark a nationalist war over Europe

7 April 2021 4:00 pm

There was a Scooby Doo moment in Alex Salmond’s campaign launch on Tuesday. Something that made me think: ‘Ruh-roh’. The…

The creeping authoritarianism of the Covid-19 restrictions

7 April 2021 4:00 pm

How can a country abide a government that consistently says one thing and then does the exact opposite? Whether it’s…

Now isn’t the time to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum

7 April 2021 3:55 pm

Who will educate the educators, when the educators get things wrong? This week, one of Britain’s leading teaching unions passed a…

Women are dangerous

7 April 2021 1:34 pm

No one has done more damage to the employment prospects of young women than Labor and their feminist activist mates. …

Trick question: why test brick wall with head?

7 April 2021 11:42 am

The late and great American columnist Charles Krauthammer reminded his readers that to understand politics you have to remember that…

Why aren’t we including porn in debate over ‘toxic culture’?

7 April 2021 4:00 am

The Canberra Bubble has become the unlikely setting for a conflict that had to come – between the desiccated descendants…

Starmer will regret his submission to liberal intolerance

7 April 2021 3:15 am

Keir Starmer obviously regrets visiting Jesus House last week because of the furore it has caused in his own party.…

Alex Salmond is a gift to the Unionist cause

7 April 2021 2:50 am

If Alex Salmond and his new Alba party did not exist, pro-Union parties would find it necessary to invent them.…

The tragic demise of the National Trust

7 April 2021 1:55 am

And so the National Trust’s crazed attack on its own properties goes blazing on. Their latest self-hating wheeze is to…

When ‘white privilege’ doesn’t count

6 April 2021 6:37 pm

First off the blocks criticising Dr Tony Sewell’s report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities was Professor Kalwant…

We can’t consent to this traducing of the law

6 April 2021 6:04 pm

Anyone who denies that the push by activists to redefine consent is politically motivated is either naïve or a liar.  …

How Alex Salmond can game the loophole in Scotland’s voting system

Two decades after devolution, the Scottish Parliament’s election system still confuses ordinary voters and seasoned political observers alike. Politicians on…

Sorry, Twits, but Newspoll doesn’t mean the PM’s swinging in the breeze

6 April 2021 4:24 pm

It’s bad news for the Morrison Government. Australians have turned, almost everywhere. Just look at the figures below. Interesting poll,…

The Morrison government needs a hard jab over vaccination levels

6 April 2021 2:59 pm

The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines across Australia is behind time, behind volume and well behind the expectations the Morrison government…

Tonight’s viewing: Malcolm on the Outer

6 April 2021 1:28 pm

From Wikipedia: Malcolm in the Middle, sorry, Malcolm on the Outer. The series follows a dysfunctional working class family [THE LIBERAL PARTY]…

Carla, darling

6 April 2021 12:00 pm

In the days when executive’s wives had their own expense accounts and led glamorous lives that entailed Rose Balls at…

Johnson is in trouble over vaccine passports – and it’s showing

6 April 2021 4:20 am

The biggest question facing Boris Johnson at this evening’s press conference was so-called vaccine passports. Plans for his scheme were…

The World Health Organisation must clean up its act

6 April 2021 4:00 am

As virulent new Covid-19 strains continue to ravage the world, a draft copy of a joint WHO-China report now concludes that the pandemic…

Johnson takes the next step out of lockdown

6 April 2021 3:05 am

When Boris Johnson first unveiled his roadmap out of lockdown, there was a promise of an end to restrictions by 21…

Go with the flow: how helpful is mass testing?

6 April 2021 2:40 am

Over half the adult population has been vaccinated, new infections and deaths have plummeted to their lowest level since last…

Matt Gaetz and the death of the Republican sex scandal

6 April 2021 1:04 am

Some hot water this week for Rep. Matt Gaetz. The Sunshine State Republican and adroit controversialist stands accused of everything…