Meanjin’s #MeToo snafu goes nuts
It’s clash of the virtue signallers over in the left corner – and this time it’s beyond parody. Here is…
Why is the ANU afraid of what made us great?
The Australian National University is so ashamed of our own cultural heritage that they have refused to offer a degree…
Virtue-signalling is in the bag
Today is World Environment Day. And to celebrate the occasion, Australians’ favourite oligopolies — Coles and Woolworths — are doing…
Paul Ramsay’s dream should be realised in a private institution
The Australian National University has cut ties with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation (Paul Ramsay’s posthumous project for the…
How feminism is failing Vikki Campion
A quick look at coverage of Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion’s supposedly tell-all interview confirms two things. Firstly, Joyce is…
Minimum wage hike is no boon for many
Late last week the Fair Work Commission recently increased Australia’s minimum wage to $18.93 an hour. Minimum weekly wages are…
The double standards of our cultural czars
If you were still in any doubt as to there being an unwritten double standard currently operating throughout the Western…
The indoctrination factories may be less effective than we fear
Chat to any spirited teen and it’s clear schools are like medieval villages run by humourless priests. Independent thought threatens,…
Questions for Alexander Downer
It has been a few months now since “The New York Times” first reported on the curious story how an Australian diplomat…
Pope Francis the Inevitable
Just the other day another juicy bit of Pope Francis ‘table talk’ hit the media to wide acclaim. Popularly endorsed…
Not free to choose
I once watched a speech on the nanny state by Brendan O’Neill who said that he didn’t like the term…
The ANU fails western civilisation
Manning Clark must be mightily vexed from wherever he now exists (as an admirer of Soviet Man, Manning did not,…
It’s not for Westminster to decide Northern Ireland’s abortion law
Predictably enough, there have been no calls this week for the Irish referendum on abortion to be re-run, no complaint…
Portrait of the week: Ireland votes to legalise abortion; Pret A Manger sold; Italy plunged into crisis
Home Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, said that the referendum in Ireland on…
In my illness and old age, children give me hope
By 74 it is easy to feel that you have seen it all, done it all, that nothing much surprises…
Bolshevism: the enemy of democracy
From ‘News of the week’, 1 June 1918: Bolshevism is the negation of democratic government. There is no pretence on…
Letters: An extra 3 per cent won’t fix the NHS
What the NHS needs Sir: James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson are right (‘The great Tory health splurge,’ 26 May): an…
The EU should go the way of the British Empire
To understand how the European Union works, and how it doesn’t, it helps to think of it as an empire.…
Could a eurozone crisis benefit Brexit?
Is it better to negotiate with a confident, optimistic European Union or a nervous, fretful one? Even Brexiteers are split…
When will the Tories learn: murdering animals isn’t a vote-winner
Buoyed by its huge popularity in the opinion polls and the fact that it is managing Brexit so well, the…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s transgender superman
Comics aren’t what they used to be. In 1976 I was 11 — the perfect target audience for probably the…
WH Smith, Britain’s worst high-street retailer, is ripe for disruption
I’m not in the least surprised to learn that WH Smith has been voted Britain’s worst high-street retailer in a…
Europe has a democracy problem
This week the EU revealed its true nature. Rather than hand power to a Eurosceptic, the Italian President Sergio Mattarella…
Trump has turned the Mueller investigation on its head
Donald Trump got bad reviews in the press — no surprise — when he announced that Rudy Giuliani, the former…
Twenty20 is making cricket great again
Blame it on a marketing survey. In 2001, the England and Wales Cricket Board commissioned the biggest piece of market…
