Welcome to the University Australia
In their 1976 classic Hotel California, The Eagles sang of a haunted hotel where “you can check out any time…
No, inequality is not discrimination
A problem misdiagnosed is a problem mistreated. Many people today assume without question that all inequality is the result of…
Cook statue vandalism: one of these reports is not like the others
In the early hours of yesterday, the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s Hyde Park was vandalised, allegedly by…
Uproar in Danandrewstan: the inside story (or not)
The following is a transcript of an interview with Chairman Dan Andrews conducted by Fake News late on Sunday evening…
COVID and the left: you can’t rally, but we can riot
Are you ready for the second blame wave? As the country braces itself for an inevitable repeat surge in COVID-19…
Ultimo must fall
Over the weekend, we saw police officers being punched, kicked and spat on. We saw riots, looting, property destroyed and…
Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke
Structural, systemic, systematically — we’re hearing these words a lot at the moment. Racism isn’t individual. It is structural or…
Boris’s gender change sanity leaves Labour with a difficult choice
The Sunday Times says Boris Johnson is going to reject May-era proposals to allow people to “self-identify” changes of their…
Goodbye Giants, but I don’t need your virtue signalling
Dear Tony I have enclosed my 2019 GWS Premium Membership Card which you might like to pass onto one of…
11 people who should have statues
The Black Lives Matter movement and the ‘Topple the Racists’ campaign have reminded us that monuments in public spaces can…
Quick, we must rename Darwin!
The Black Lives Matter movement sweeping the globe has led to statues of controversial historical figures like slave traders and…
They know nothing
So, now we are apparently living in what is called a “cancel culture”. Removing historical TV shows and movies will not help anyone in trying to…
A rabbi stabbed, but no hate crime?
A mystery has occurred. In The Affluent People’s Republic of North London, a rabbi was stabbed on the street multiple…
Collective guilt?
The iconic flags flutter from masts behind the podium. A woman stands before the microphone dressed in black, her mask…
Neocons come home to roost
Dolphins returned to the canals of Venice during the COVID-19 lockdown, and neoconservatives are returning to the Democratic party. Bill…
How do you like US now?
It’s that time again when newspapers tell us that America’s standing in the world has substantially declined under Donald Trump.…
How a serious issue with racism was reduced to a tick-boxing exercise
Who needs statue topplers when the state will do it for you? Some bright spark in authority has decided the…
What Britain should learn from Belgium: history can be reappraised
Is it best to erase history, or reappraise history? We haven’t started taking down statues of royalty in Britain yet,…
Conservatives – corporations are not your friend
Amazon is suspending police use of its face-recognition software, HBO Max has pulled Gone With the Wind and Paramount Network…
The European Union may never have its ‘Hamilton moment’
The European Union has always been quintessentially risk averse. What a surprise therefore to see it jeopardising its very existence…
Double delusions
In a week of absolute madness, it’s hard to know which is the more deranged fantasy: that we can do…
Brown study
You might think that the law is old, stodgy, stuck in the past and opposed to reform. It is all…
Australian notes
Chinese aggression and the New Cold War Over recent weeks commentators both in Australia and abroad have drawn attention to…
