Sleepwalking to oblivion
‘Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If…
Financial eunuch
Teenagers are normally embarrassed by their mothers. Germaine Greer was particularly so. Elizabeth Kleinhenz in her new biography writes: ‘Germaine…
Brown study
There is something symbiotic about the fact that the federal Budget has been dropped on us just when the final…
Jonathan Biggins as Paul Keating
This is a show for the nostalgic and the masochistic. The Gospel According to Paul is a one man show…
A Defence Force slowly dying
The Australian Defence Force is shooting itself in the foot over political correctness. But venturing opinions on PC is reminiscent…
Why not ‘Welcome to Christianity’?
Imagine the outcry by the inner city limousine Left and the free-trade, almond latte drinkers if the Victorian Labor government…
Let’s deplatform the deplatformers
When controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson toured Australia and New Zealand in February, tickets sold out in days. In Brisbane,…
Six sins of Shorten
The impending federal election will be a referendum on economic policy, the like of which Australia hasn’t seen since 1993.…
Business/Robbery etc
The contribution to Australia’s cultural life by my old friend and long-standing colleague Peter Coleman demonstrated that to be an…
Campaign notes
Shorten’s bottom line Could Bill Shorten‘s ‘Hewson moment’ be a similar turning point in the Coalition’s election campaign? Such a…
Turnbull goes Twin Peak crazy
Former Prime Minister Turnbull is right about one thing: he’s not in politics anymore and he doesn’t have ‘to engage…
Roger Stone: I will be vindicated
Undisclosed location, Florida In January, when heavily armed FBI agents swarmed my south Florida home to arrest me for a…
The Roger Scruton row brings shame on the Tories
A friend of mine – another twenty-one year old – has resigned his membership of the Conservative party this morning…
She’s got it, oh baby she’s got it!
We’re not exactly sure as to precisely when advertising agencies started to view their marketing services as political advocacy, but…
Rugby Australia has values – but Israel Folau has principles
‘Doing your own thing’ seemed like such a simple, straightforward idea. It captured the whole idea of freedom in a…
CBD: It’s all about fairness (for public servants)
Our perspicacious political insider exclusively writes: That wonderfully emotive and substance devoid slogan of fairness will play a big role…
Barr investigates the investigators
‘OBAMA TAPPED MY PHONES!’ When President Trump blared out this accusation in a series of tweets in March 2017, the White…
Tory nightmare? Theresa May is granted Brexit delay to Halloween
Following five hours of talks in Brussels that went on into the early hours of Thursday, Theresa May has been…
Twice lucky – but for how long?
The other day having a coffee with an old friend we pondered, among more cheerful topics, the state of politics…
And they’re off…
Our exclusive campaign insider writes: In the morning mist of the world’s epicentre, the balloon has gone up. Election 19…
Who can feel an election coming on, Flat White contributors?
Well, we’re on. That means we want contributions. Pithy, punchy, provocative pieces on Australian politics and the campaign. All you…
Britain’s liberals have fallen out of love with democracy
Every now and then there is a political moment, some event or comment, that reveals just how much society has…
Being ‘Not-Trump’ is not enough
For all that progressives hate Donald Trump’s policies, his tax cuts and his travel bans, nothing has been more outrageous…
What’s woke this week?
Wokeworld this week offered up an embarrassment of riches as work continues apace on dismantling reason in favour of dumbing…
It’s time to end the seal of the confessional: the religious case
There have been recent calls in California and Australian jurisdictions for the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse by clergy…
