Running against AOC
‘Orange Man Bad’ is a fairly predominant ideological maxim of today’s American left. Many Republicans are invoking its right-wing counterpart…
Twitter is editing the New York Times
Dear A.G. (Sulzberger), It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from the New…
Will the Hagia Sophia be a wake-up call to the west?
Turkey’s strongman president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia will become a mosque again,…
Has Boris lost the plot?
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir? That defence of the political u-turn was…
Australia’s problematic arts culture
The ideological closed shop that is Australia’s creative classes isn’t really a secret even if the artists themselves insist on…
Britain’s GDP figures are dreadful but Sunak must still hold his nerve
A five hundred quid shopping voucher for everyone. Five per cent off VAT across the board. Maybe suspending income tax…
There’s no magic bullet in the Palace Letters, yet republicans have shot their conspiracy theories to pieces
It is surely ironical that on Bastille Day 2020, the faces of Australia’s fake republicans should be so liberally smeared…
Will making face masks compulsory help us get back to normal?
The government will announce today that from 24 July face coverings will be mandatory in shops and supermarkets. Those who…
Extinction Rebellion’s shameful cultural appropriation
Extinction Rebellion are boasting about their latest little piece of absurdist street theatre, a protest outside Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s…
Sport should unite us, so why are its pampered pooh-bahs using it as a tool of division?
Australians go to the footy to get away from politics and watch and enjoy the footy. Elitist sports administrators would…
Turkey continues its backward march
Being born in Australia to Greek and Cypriot born parents, I was raised to forget the nationalistic differences of past…
A disturbance in the Trump campaign
Is the Death Star about to implode? Trump campaign manager (at least at this writing) Brad Parscale bragged some weeks…
Two faces of Polish rebellion
The narrowness of President Andrzej Duda’s victory in this weekend’s Polish presidential elections, where he defeated Rafał Trzaskowski, the Mayor…
Um, slebs… about those adopted Asian and African kids
The “cancel culture” chaotic mob mentality continues its journey throughout the Western World yet I cannot help but wonder why it has not yet turned on Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron and other Hollywood…
I curse the f-word
If you’ve witnessed (or rather, heard) the marches, riots and anarchy in support of DIY separatist nation-building tearing through your…
How Trump wins
Donald Trump is trying to break through a 2020 wall. By January 2019, after over three years of failed efforts…
Masterchef Canberra
If you are in the souffle business and you keep delivering broken crackers, no amount of increase in ingredients and…
Oh my God, I’ve offended the ancient Mayans!
Just when you think the world can’t get madder, it does. The SMAge (where else?) reports: Actor and writer Michelle…
Does David Copperfield work at the Bureau of Meteorology?
On January 13, 1939, The Sydney Morning Herald reported: ‘Based on officially recorded maximum temperatures ….. the registration of 124…
Do you want woke with that?
Such is the dominance of political correctness and cultural-left ideology that society is now awash with virtue signalling and kowtowing…
We need cancel culture herd immunity
I’ve always disliked the phrase “I told you so”. It reeks of bitterness wrapped in arrogance, especially when coming from…
The Kondo effect in politics
The decluttering crusade of home-organizing guru Marie Kondo has taken on a life of its own. Kondo’s effort to shame us…
Will Cambridge stand up for free speech in China?
Last month, Dr Priyamvada Gopal, of Churchill College, Cambridge University, tweeted ‘White Lives Don’t Matter’. She was abused online and…
Coronavirus has exposed the EU’s greatest flaw
Politics begins and ends with sovereignty: the duty and right to make the legitimate final decision. We have seen this…
Revealed: the true hottest day ever recorded in Australia
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was long regarded as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia, Bourke’s 125°F…
