The West is failing to rise to the challenge of coronavirus

26 March 2020 11:43 pm

Having apparently shaken off the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda machine is now in…

The latest gender studies literature is indistinguishable from satire

26 March 2020 11:18 pm

Reading the back cover of the soon to be released Me Not You: The trouble with mainstream feminism, I assumed…

What does coronavirus mean for the climate ‘crisis’?

26 March 2020 11:00 pm

A strange thing happened as coronavirus reached Europe’s shores. Concepts like ‘net zero’ and ‘climate crisis’ which had previously dominated…

What’s woke this pandemic?

26 March 2020 5:36 pm

The world has lost its collective head and pandemic pandemonium is the new normal. Those who inhabit the world of…

How the coronavirus response shows we have lost our fundamental values

26 March 2020 3:00 pm

Australia’s response to the coronavirus threat reveals that we have lost our fundamental values. While our nation is faced with…

Big Pharma and free market orgs unite against Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order

26 March 2020 1:50 pm

The Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM), a trade association for major pharmaceutical manufacturers such as 3M, is drafting a letter…

Greens spread the virulent virus of gender wars

26 March 2020 1:03 pm

Anyone with a functioning pair of eyes will have read that coronavirus is killing more men than women. In Italy, the…

Corona crisis cancelled my wedding, but may it never harm our long-term liberty

26 March 2020 11:01 am

I was due to be married in Australia on May 9. But, even six weeks away, it is not to…

Once again, it’s time for Western Civilisation to take the lead

26 March 2020 5:00 am

A scared new world awaits. On the other side of a few precarious weeks sits a reality we would appear…

Donald Trump’s wishful Easter deadline is a trap for Democrats

26 March 2020 2:28 am

Will the stimulus stimulate? Donald Trump, who seems to have had nothing to do with the actual formation of the…

Are you feeling stimulated?

26 March 2020 2:06 am

Well, at least this isn’t socialism for the rich. The Trump administration’s gargantuan stimulus package — the third in response…

Has Japan cracked coronavirus?

25 March 2020 8:44 pm

I got back to Tokyo on Friday morning having hastily rescheduled my flight from Britain to avoid new restrictions for entering…

What if we recover from coronavirus, only to die in poverty?

25 March 2020 7:22 pm

In their frantic attempts to delay the spread of coronavirus, governments are sowing the seeds of economic depression and currency…

Twit of the Day

25 March 2020 5:40 pm

It was only yesterday that the SpecOz launched its effort to generate modish social capital in these times of trouble…

How the shinybums stuffed MyGov – and are still making you queue at Centrelink

25 March 2020 3:37 pm

If MyGov was an eCommerce website the repetitive outages would have been cured in about six hours or less. The…

Won’t somebody please think of the Instagram influencers?

25 March 2020 1:37 pm

We are reliably informed by News.com.au that travel influencers — sorry, glamourous travel influencers — say that coronavirus is ‘impacting…

We’re now paying the price for our Faustian folly with China

25 March 2020 11:37 am

If coronavirus has taught us anything it’s that the Chinese regime cannot be trusted. Please note that I said regime and…

How the media created its latest anti-Trump hit job

25 March 2020 6:13 am

I can’t believe I actually have to write these words, but President Trump is not to blame for a couple…

In this crisis Victoria University is there for the community, keeping us laughing with woke inanities

25 March 2020 5:00 am

In his 1996 Boyer Lectures titled ‘The View from the Bridge,’ the eminent Australian academic Pierre Ryckmans argued the university…

The lethal ambiguities in the ‘stay at home’ coronavirus advice

25 March 2020 4:42 am

There are still potentially lethal ambiguities in the government’s coronavirus advice about who should go to work; such is the…

Don’t close the churches because of coronavirus

25 March 2020 4:18 am

Last night, when the Prime Minister made his address to the nation he declared that places of worship would be…

France’s downward spiral of coronavirus repression

24 March 2020 11:48 pm

In France there is a palpable sense of administrative and political panic in how to deal with the coronavirus epidemic.…

China? Nah! It’s always Pauline Hanson’s fault

24 March 2020 7:06 pm

As the wheels come off the world as we know it, the economy slithers down the toilet, and thousands of…

Listen to the experts and elites, but remember they’ve got form

24 March 2020 5:31 pm

The Prime Minister’s call for Australians to heed the advice of his government’s experts may fall on deaf ears because the experts and…

Introducing our Twit of the Day

24 March 2020 4:08 pm

In these times of trouble, it’s important that we join together as a community — and what unites us more…