Trans activists risk falling for misogyny

22 July 2020 10:44 pm

Watching the BBC drama Mrs America about the 1970s fight for the Equal Rights Amendment is a reminder that progress is rarely permanent…

It’s time to end extradition to all human rights abusers

22 July 2020 8:26 pm

When Dominic Raab stood at the despatch box in the House of Commons this week and announced that the Government…

Why Putin wants Scottish independence

22 July 2020 7:12 pm

The Russia report was supposed to prove once and for all that the Kremlin rigged the EU referendum, Boris Johnson…

Coronavirus and the public toilet theory of human behaviour

22 July 2020 7:04 pm

Looking around the world, some of the nations first hit by Covid-19 are well on the road to economic recovery…

Why we should consider banning TikTok

22 July 2020 6:40 pm

If you’re over the age of 20, TikTok can be a bewildering experience. Fire up the app and you’ll be…

Peter Ridd and James Cook University: the Federal Court delivers a devastating blow against free speech

22 July 2020 4:37 pm

The Federal Court has devastating blow against mainstream Australians, against freedom of speech and against freedom of speech on climate…

Official: “Sport Australia has not defined the term ‘woman'”

22 July 2020 1:00 pm

Should women and girls have to share change rooms and toilets with people with male genitals? Is it okay for…

The crumbling lawsuit against Fox News

22 July 2020 5:27 am

The new lawsuit filed by two women against Fox News and several of its personalities is riddled with inaccuracies. This…

The other virus

22 July 2020 5:00 am

The barbarians are not at the gate.  The barbarians are manning the gate.  And they decide who gets in and who stays in. …

Trump shouldn’t wear a mask

22 July 2020 4:53 am

Next time Donald Trump poses for a photo call in one of those ridiculous, unnecessary and completely off-brand face masks,…

What will Biden do?

22 July 2020 1:48 am

The oddities of Joe Biden’s third presidential campaign are impossible to ignore. He is the oldest man ever nominated by…

Europe’s coronavirus rescue fund is dead on arrival

22 July 2020 12:16 am

Just imagine what would happen if real money was at stake. Over the last four days, the leaders of the…

LA Times thirsts after ‘Naked Athena’

21 July 2020 10:58 pm

‘She emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas’, writes Richard Read; ‘[a] woman wearing nothing but a black…

Can we finally put the Russia-Brexit conspiracy to bed?

21 July 2020 10:20 pm

So there you go. There is still no hard evidence that Russia interfered in the EU referendum. What’s more, it…

The West failed to stop the Holocaust – now we’re failing the Uyghurs

21 July 2020 7:21 pm

In 1944, Slovak rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl sent the US government a 30-page report detailing an extermination facility in Poland…

Smoke clouding the judgement of health bureaucrats

21 July 2020 7:05 pm

There was a deafening roar last week caused by Australia’s tobacco control experts congratulating themselves on the latest national smoking results. You…

Boris Johnson’s command and control administration

21 July 2020 6:46 pm

Conservatives once knew that command and control didn’t work. Even if they didn’t know it intellectually, one former Conservative minister…

COVIDSafe is grossly flawed – an update

21 July 2020 5:00 pm

You read about it first in the SpecOz back on April 28 when I outlined the obvious limitations of the…

Is Dan Andrews using coronavirus as cover for war on the self-employed

21 July 2020 3:05 pm

Does Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ want to make being your own boss illegal? There’s mounting evidence. With the second big…

Mad F***ing Boycotts

21 July 2020 1:04 pm

“There’s no such thing as cancel culture,” scream wide-eyed mad witches atop their broomsticks while simultaneously insisting that all middle-aged…

Hell in Portland

21 July 2020 10:15 am

Portland has had one of the most turbulent histories of any town in America. At the time of the Great…

Where can patriotic Americans find America?

21 July 2020 9:35 am

If we’ve confirmed anything in 2020, it is that liberal-progressives really do control the major influencers in America. This puts…

On radical centralism

21 July 2020 5:00 am

It’s an interesting point in time when a non-ideological and non-partisan stance becomes radical. That seems to be the point…

What we don’t (yet) know about the Oxford vaccine

21 July 2020 3:09 am

How excited should we be about the latest news of the Oxford vaccine? At least this time – in contrast…

The Oxford vaccine appears to have surpassed expectations

21 July 2020 2:09 am

It has been yet another busy medical day in our ‘new-normal’ coronavirus world. Today, the Phase One results of the…