The terrible injury toll of modern rugby
Eddie Jones’s sorrows as England’s rugby coach certainly keep coming in big battalions. Now the giant battered No 8 Billy…
Dear Mary: My friend’s cooked breakfasts make me gag
Q. My fiancé and I spend many great weekends with another couple. I am a vegetarian and quite particular about…
Breakfast for idiots: it was the wrong time of day for a visit to Gazelle Mayfair
I couldn’t find Gazelle. I walked up and down Albermarle Street, in which Oscar Wilde once plotted his own doom…
Mind your language: Woman, women, womxn
When I say that it has given comfort to my husband, you can judge how foolish the Wellcome Institute was…
Boot Brisbane, kick Canberra
‘I am delighted to be speaking in Cairns, capital of the new State of North Queensland,’ I told the new…
Dis-con notes
The UN at work A recent Dis-Con Note, ‘ScoMo’s (recommended) manifesto’, mentioned two international meetings in December pursuing the United…
Latham’s law
One of the weaknesses in the Australian education system is a lack of understanding of civics. Teaching children the basics…
Grievance studies gone to the dogs
If it wasn’t so serious the recent example of peer-reviewed journals being duped would be laughable. Confirming Orwell’s observation that…
The Facebook page of Dorian Gray
Technology is disruptive. It destroys and creates. It also defines us as human beings. No technology, though, even television, has…
Free speech exclusion zone
The recent new abortion clinic exclusion zone laws in NSW specify that it is illegal to obstruct and harass people…
Business/Robbery etc
Whatever the outcome of Saturday’s green-tainted global-warming-fixated Wentworth by-election, it won’t knock King Coal off his economy-boosting throne. And there…
Media mafia and mob rule
Most right-thinking people, of all political persuasions and of none, will have breathed a sigh of relief when they heard…
Lunch with Leo and Sir Francis
I was having a chat with renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and brilliant British empiricist and champion of the scientific…
Brown study
Alan Jones was wrong to apologise for his interview as part of the Sydney Opera House fracas. Once you apologise…
Mitchell Galleries
One of the loveliest and best-loved buildings in Sydney, the Mitchell Building of the State Library of NSW is enjoying…
Bill Shorten, drunken sailor
When Bill Shorten tried to make Question Time hay of Malcolm Turnbull’s political demise, to gales of backbench laughter Prime…
The week in misandry
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. The Australian…
Before you vote for Kerryn Phelps in Wentworth…
Step with me, if you will, through the mists of time; back to an era when there was a high-quality…
Liberals lead charge against parental choice
Warnings that freedoms would be lost if same-sex marriage was passed were ridiculed every day during last year’s debate. Ten…
The Left can thank themselves for rising ‘strongman’ politics
A new report shows that a third of Australians are in favour of “strongman” leadership. That is authoritarian leadership. This…
Don’t say ABC reporting on the Wentworth shit-sheet has been selective?
Lawks-a-mussy me! Don’t say the ABC’s reporting on the Wentworth shit-sheet has been selective? Here’s what the workers’ soviet ferociously…
Of course it’s all about the money
An undiplomatic incident in a Canberra restaurant? Enough to get those delicate maiden aunts from the ABC and Fairfax holding…
Queensland aborts conscience
It is the best of times. At no other time in human history has there been less war or invasion,…
Religious freedom is not absolute – and neither are LGBTI rights
Last week in Australia the recommendations of the Ruddock Review into Religious Freedom were leaked, leading to media frenzy that…
