The problem with white men
When life gives you Don Lemons, it’s time to switch off CNN: Translation: we have to stop demonising some people…
Logic creams milk levy criticism
The past fortnight has seen loud criticism of the milk price levy applied by supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths to assist…
Good luck with that religious freedom, ScoMo
Scott Morrison really has his work well and truly cut if he intends to protect our religious freedom without antagonising…
Sorry, Australia, but Joko says “no”
Australia does not have the permission of Indonesia’s President to relocate our Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem.…
Fresh foreign threats to free speech on universities
The growing concern about academic freedom and free speech on university campuses typically relates to illiberal student activists shutting down…
What’s Labor got against life?
I was brought up as a devout Roman Catholic, but one of the reasons why I left the Church was…
The social media giants have stopped even pretending
Sure, they are private businesses and so they can do whatever they want with their users but at least in…
Rustbelt Libs smash small business over vacuous vaping claims
As the South Australian Government forces $60 million worth of local small businesses to close their doors, they are also…
How markets are making our lives better
The latest data out of the ABS reveal that we’re spending ever more money on dining out and takeaway. Indeed,…
Nauru kids and “resignation syndrome”: a political diagnosis
The term “resignation syndrome” arose just over a decade ago in Sweden. It described what doctors were seeing among refugees…
Try a little tenderness
Prime Minister Scot Morrison’s Christianity has been under the media spotlight recently. All the reporting showed me that when people…
Forget global warming, here’s some really spooky science
Newton’s Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This (along with his First…
The Bosphorus option
Failed leaders or pretenders to the throne in the old Ottoman Empire received no mercy. Having failed the test to…
Grow a juicy kick-arse vagina and stop whinging
The #MeToo campaign goes up my arse sideways. The once empowering movement has transformed into a violent and hateful vendetta…
Nanny Gladys ignores the facts again
In unsurprising news, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian this week announced she would adopt all of the recommendations made…
Ten things Sinead O’Connor will learn from her new religion
You’ve probably already heard that Sinead O’Connor has converted to Islam. But the problem is, I don’t think she really…
What is the point of Philip Hammond?
What is the point of Philip Hammond? Most chancellors have an agenda, but it’s hard to discern any purpose or…
Portrait of the Week: the Brexit march, Nick Clegg’s new job and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, found herself in another crisis over Brexit. Backbenchers whispered that 48 letters were being…
What do #MeToo women feel about downtrodden husbands?
Eight years ago, in the course of doing some research into literacy teaching in London, I visited many primary schools.…
Doctors and death
The Royal College of Physicians has suggested that doctors should learn to talk to patients about death. But talk about…
Letters: The Irish problem (again), Desert Island narcissists, and the smoking French
Irish problem Sir: What James Forsyth calls ‘the EU plan’ to keep Northern Ireland in the customs union after Brexit…
George Orwell’s legacy has been monopolised by the left
Mrs May says she is taking her stand on the issue of Northern Ireland and the integrity of the United…
Even ministers don’t understand Brexit
The Brexit negotiations are becoming so complicated that even the cabinet admits that it doesn’t understand what is going on.…
The march of the migrants poses a dilemma for America
Trump has hinted that Democrats may have been secretly funding the ‘caravan’ of more than 7,000 Honduran immigrants trooping towards…
In defence of Nick Clegg
As I write, the sneering at Nick Clegg has started. The first cuckoo I’ve heard in this chorus is calling…
