Against the grain
‘My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.’…
Brown study
‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great Pandemic?’ People are getting ready to answer this question for when things…
Latham’s law
In the Cancel Culture Revolution now under way, the role of woke corporations continues to defy rational belief. Even the…
Australian notes
Vision of justice ‘Justice is the end [goal] of government. It is the end of civil society,’ argued James Madison,…
Black Lives Matter and the scourge of anti-semitism
Anti-Zionism fuels the so-called ‘anti-racist’ BLM
Base politics
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York moved to the lectern. It was the Cow Palace in San Francisco in…
Aussie Life
Jordan Shanks is not your average lefty. This unusual Australian YouTuber, who goes by the name of FriendlyJordies, disdains such…
Boris Johnson’s plan for ‘significant normality’
Normally Fridays are spent thinking about how to unwind from work. Today though Boris Johnson announced changes to government guidance…
The BBC’s failure to report gender identity accurately
‘Blackpool woman accessed child abuse images in hospital bed’. It’s a good headline, in that it catches your attention. But…
Macron’s Faustian pact with the EU
On Wednesday, the new French Prime Minister Jean Castex made his general policy statement to the National Assembly. We know…
Australia is out of touch with world tobacco harm reduction policy
At least in the United States and Australia, the systems of government are similar. Barring parliament and constitutional monarchism, both…
How coronavirus is killing small business – and threatening our values
The heart of the Australian way of life is under threat with small businesses fighting for survival as lockdown restrictions…
What’s racist this week?
Your woke correspondent has emerged this week from hibernation into the light of a brave new Wokeworld where white people are clambering over…
Why Shamima Begum should not have been allowed to return
It is startling to see the Court of Appeal take over the Home Secretary’s responsibility in deciding who should be…
Lauren Southern: keep the theatre of cancel culture off the Australian political stage
Earlier last year I stepped away from politics in a bid to focus on family. What most people didn’t know…
These Russian cyber-attacks are a wake up call for the UK
Days before the release of the becalmed Intelligence & Security Committee (ISC) report on Russian political interference, we suddenly started…
How will Biden pick his VP?
This COVID-infected campaign season has brought more than its fair share of surprises. Virtual conventions, turnover at the top of…
Virtual insanity
This week was originally slated to be the week of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, when presumptive nominee Joe…
Is the EU cooking the books on tackling climate change?
When it comes to tackling climate change, the EU has always been eager to talk the talk. In 2011, the…
How hopeful should we be about Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine?
A Covid-19 vaccine has always been the great hope to take us to the promised land of alert level one…
We must resuscitate our near-flatline economy
The performance of the economy was weak before COVID-19, and now it is perilously close to flat-lining. In particular, business…
