Isn’t it time Sacha Baron Cohen got cancelled?
How helpful of the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to reveal that there are two or three people in America who…
Queensland Labor: left and lefter
Queensland’s great political double act looks set to continue right up until the state election in October of this year.…
Confected outrage
Nestlé, why stop now? You are on a real roll trending and riding the tsunami wave of stupidity going on at the…
The truth about ethnic communities and coronavirus
Just as the epidemic shines a mirror on a host of issues, it has also raised questions about our multiculturalism.…
It’s 2020, so everything is racist. Especially at the ABC
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian ABC journalist, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and…
Is this the end of history?
Midway through Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there occurs this exchange between two characters: ‘“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill…
Mounting anger around the Family Law inquiry
When Scott Morrison announced the Family Law Inquiry he described it on Channel 7 as an opportunity, “to hear directly…
Coming soon: the ALS Friedman Conference
It’s just a little over two weeks until Australia’s largest centre-right event, the ALS Friedman Conference, co-hosted by the Australian…
It’s not about Woodrow Wilson. It’s about indoctrination
On November 18, 2015, a group of Princeton University undergraduates calling themselves the Black Justice League, or BJL, invaded historic…
Even Japan could be about to embrace remote working
A Japanese banker once told me that his company had opened an expensive showcase office block in the centre of…
The rise of coercive progressivism
What has followed the killing of George Floyd did not begin with the death of a man under the knee…
Cartoon lives matter
Hollywood animators were thrown into chaos last week when white actors said they would no longer voice coloured characters. Actors…
Is teeth whitening now racist too?
Remember when author J. K. Rowling got absolutely smashed on social media and cancelled for daring to say that only…
A glimmer of gender sanity in sport?
After initially publicly backing gender-fluid guidelines for women’s and girls’ sport, Sports Minister Richard Colbeck is now walking this back.…
Is Leicester going to see England’s first local lockdown?
The first local lockdown – and therefore a test of whether local lockdowns will be effective in suppressing coronavirus outbreaks…
Has Boris’s luck finally run out?
In the grand scheme of things, it is easy to overestimate the importance of Parliamentary performances. But they do influence…
Ditch Paris
It was announced last week that the Minerals Council of Australia has ‘committed to cutting carbon emissions’ and has ‘thrown…
Brown on white guilt
I can’t sleep because of the guilt. I have not been able to do so since I was 16. That…
Australian notes
Time to cancel cancel culture If I were ever asked, and I won’t be, I would urge the government to…
Cultural notes
While the West slept President Kennedy wrote a thesis in his last year at university that was later published under…
Euro notes
How DFAT (yet again) let us down Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s robust initiative in leading the call for an independent…
Lawless Labor easy meat
Victoria’s Libs should be able to trounce the Andrews government. But will they?
Business/Robbery etc.
Fake news on super’s early access spend The attention-grabbing media headline ‘Revealed: Aussies spend early access super on gambling, beauty…
