Royally irresponsible
Over the past year, a belief has taken hold that the main driver of wrongdoing in our banking and financial…
The tyranny of the minority
When police accused actor Justin Smollett of staging a hate crime, his left-wing cheer squad threw down their pom-poms and…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s like the farcical Fawlty Towers admonition not to mention the war; in the real world it could not be…
Australian notes
Let’s emulate Jordan Jordan Peterson’s much-hyped performance on Q&A was a model of reasonable discussion. As long as the ABC…
Footballers have rights, too
There’s a good chance that because of the charge against Jack de Belin, the right to the presumption of innocence…
Deep State steps out of the shadows
One of Sherlock Holmes’ enduring tropes is the dog that didn’t bark in the night, giving away the fact that…
For whom the Pell tolls
As the author of a book on Vatican corruption, I know there are almost no depths to which the progressive…
Gaia’s Juniors
Grumpy adults who complain about the fecklessness of youthful ‘snowflakes’ will be gladdened that at least some of the young…
Labor is beatable
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen is pretty darn sure of himself. What he wants out of May’s election: a clear mandate…
Charity? Balls!
Last year, Australians gave more than $12.5 billion to charity. This sum reflects millions of individual acts of goodwill that…
Men, now you too can breastfeed!
Just before you think that this is such a good April Fool’s joke that I’m getting in a month early,…
Princess PC versus the colonisation of the curriculum
Were you aware that the curriculum of our universities has been colonized? Apparently this is a serious problem and we…
Why won’t the left recognise global progress on poverty?
Is the declining rate of global poverty simply a neoliberal lie, spread by the likes of Bill Gates? According to…
Feminist fighters love their boys – as weapons
Author, presenter and former Kevin Rudd press secretary Jamila Rizvi penned a column for The Age on Friday about the…
An epistle to Van Badham: there is no such thing as Marxist Christianity
Oxymorons abound, such as ‘Arab unity,’ or ‘leftist logic’. But one obvious candidate which just will not go away is…
Fearless Girl, shameless stunt
A replica of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the world of statuary, Kristin Visbal’s Fearless Girl, has been installed in Melbourne’s…
When gender activism masquerades as good HR
The university thought police have developed a new tool to ensure their students think correctly. Clubs at the University of…
She’s tackled everything, but can Ita tame the ABC?
In the halcyon days of magazines in Sydney in the seventies, one name was spoken with admiration tinged with –admit…
What’s woke this week
In the woke-honoured tradition of ‘If it ain’t woke, then fix it’ the usual suspects were woking up a storm…
As a survivor of child sexual abuse, I just feel sad
As a survivor of child sexual abuse, abuse that occurred within a religious institution supported by Australian churches, the verdict…
Energy policy: the $72 billion fair dinkum disaster
Energy and climate change policy in Australia and other western democracies is now, along with immigration and its associated fear…
Statistics, like gender, are now fluid too?
My son came home from his private church school the other day and made a startling declaration. “Dad, do you…
How can the government avoid defeat this week?
Theresa May begins the week with a chunk of her party growing increasingly frustrated with her handling of Brexit. The…
Bugger the Newspoll, ScoMo can win
Shortly after the 2016 federal election, Christopher Pyne declared, “That’s our sixth victory out of eight in the last 20…
Much ado about muffin means it’s time to talk minimum wages
So the CEO of Muffin Break has discovered over the weekend that there’s muffin so offensive to millennials on social…
