The end of the world is nigh (and yet again millennials cop it hardest)
The religious impulse must be strongly imprinted in a human psyche indeed. As fewer and fewer people seriously subscribe to…
CBD: welcome to the GULAG – GetUp!, Labor and the Greens
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: It’s now been just over two weeks since SM saw the GG and Election…
The 2020 primary’s pivot to video
‘Charlottesville, Virginia is home to the author of one of the great documents in human history. We know it by…
Prime Minister, stop praising multiculturalism
‘What do Australia’s founding fathers and cultural diversity have in common? Both celebrate this country’s great multiculturalism’, Scott Morrison believes.…
Britain’s Huawei gamble is sure to anger Donald Trump
Just hours after Donald Trump’s long-delayed state visit to Britain was finally confirmed, reports surfaced that Theresa May and her…
CBD: KO’s KOs against workplace justice and law boost BS
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: We all want to earn more. What’s more we deserve more. Oh, how CBD…
To our glorious dead, but don’t forget the living
In a different age when navy Fleet Air Arm pilots flew flimsy wood and canvas biplanes, workplace health and safety…
Stand and fight for your ideas
A certain school of thought claims that what ails the centre-right of Australian politics is the failure to embrace a…
Will May continue to avoid naming a date for her departure?
The executive of the 1922 Committee have decided not to change its rules which prevent another vote of no confidence…
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political…
Will Labor fears force big business back to workplace reform?
The federal election campaign is underway. We already know the Big Unions will forcefully advocate for industrial relations changes, but…
Patronising the arts
The first of an occasional series by the Flat White team. “The Massachusetts of the south.” That’s how John Howard once…
When you see Bob Brown protesting, usual suspects, it’s Adani
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: CBD admits the stench of naphthalene was overpowering. But when you’ve got no cut…
Without the Mueller probe, Trump is sunk
For so long, Democrats thought that the Mueller investigation would bring down President Donald Trump. The truth could be the…
The trouble with Greta Thunberg
In popular mythology Greta Thunberg is a one-girl revolution who has inspired millions of young people into action by being…
Johnson enters the race
The European elections are shaping up to be a colourful affair with both the Brexit Party and pro-EU Change UK…
Democrats are tearing themselves apart over Trump – again
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted, public report is nearly a week old, but the Democratic party in Washington is still…
The AMA’s comic crew get the vapours
Those who have been to Venice have probably witnessed some form of Commedia Dell’arte, an improvised form of comedy where…
Smokin’ Joe Hildebrand: Bible school dropout
In what must surely come close to the modern-day equivalent of having committed career suicide, journalist Joe Hildebrand has converted…
If one scientist was enough for Einstein…
How many scientists do you need to demonstrate to policymakers in words they can understand that CO2 is not a…
CBD: Palmer and Shorten, blood brothers fighting for the workers
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Recent polling suggesting a surge of newfound popularity for Clive Palmer gives CBD comfort…
Magical mystery tour or highway to hell for Labor’s big red bus?
Pollsters stay at home on long weekends, but anyone watching Bill Shorten’s magical mystery tour on the big red diesel…
Why it’s all too white in Westeros
The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the…
Three myths about equality Labor wants you to believe
Labor leader Bill Shorten is running under the motto — “A Fair Go for Australia” — but is his party…
Backwards & Forwards: happy clappy happy
The week in politics, the week to come: Looking back Scott Morrison and the Coalition won the week. Nothing more…
