But women are the weaker sex
Women are the weaker sex. That pointing this out may be considered controversial just goes to show the extent to…
The NSW Police’s bestial behaviour
It’s often said that “A picture tells a thousand words.” Well, as Miranda Devine commented about the photo from the…
Indigenous leasing limbo
When picturing Indigenous land rights and economic development you typically conjure images of remote outstations, the challenges of developing infrastructure…
The stone-deaf politics of #MeToo
Immature argument thrives on one side voicing its opinion, and then shoving fingers in their ears while the other side…
If you don’t fight, you lose
A concatenation of events can sometimes resolve a conundrum, and that happened when, on Sunday, I was watching Sky News’s…
The war on LGBTI conservatives
At the start of the academic year I turned up at the University of Sydney Camperdown/Darlington Campus carrying two corflutes. Printed…
Reverse racism and sexism? They don’t exist!
This sort of thinking is not new, but is now getting more and more widely accepted: So, if you discriminate…
Tariffs and trade: not that simple
The attention attracted by US import duties is important on many dimensions. Alan Kohler, in the process of suggesting that…
Transgender contenders
Sport, from the suburban backyard to the manicured turf of the MCG, has always been recognised as a defining aspect…
Speaking freely on China
Last November, Australian academic Clive Hamilton made headlines around the world when news broke that publisher Allen & Unwin had…
Australian free trade must trump protectionism
With the Trump administration pledging to impose tariffs on aluminium and steel imports to the United States, the spectre of…
#MeToo, U2?
As Glenn Reynolds likes to ask, why are lef-wing institutions such cesspools of sexism and abuse: The anti-poverty campaign co-founded by Bono is…
What’s Left to like at the ABC?
I was doing some research on an article for what I actually like at the ABC—I think it might have…
Vladimir Putin is innocent until proven guilty in the Russian spy case
The apparent chemical attack on a former Russian double-agent and his daughter in an English cathedral city could be straight…
Paul Mason: In a parallel universe, Cameron is delivering Brexit
At the BBC early doors for the Today programme, to preview Corbyn’s speech advocating membership of a customs union. I…
Portrait of the week: was the poisoning of a Russian spy a hit?
Home Sergei Skripal, aged 66, and his daughter Yulia were found in a state of collapse on a bench outside…
BBC2’s Civilisations seems unable to decide what civilisation is
The presenters of the BBC 2 programme on civilisations seem unable to decide what civilisation is. Socrates would therefore wonder…
The truth about Max Mosley and that leaflet
Almost eight million people have now watched Cathy Newman’s Channel 4 News interview with Jordan Peterson. This figure must be…
The EU shouldn’t punish Brexit. They’d soon regret it
Last Monday, Theresa May’s chief of staff talked junior ministers through her Mansion House speech. Gavin Barwell was frank with…
Italy’s election result shouldn’t be a shock. The populist revolution has just begun
Why aren’t children called Roger any more? I wondered this when reading about the sad death of Sir Roger Bannister.…
Commitment-phobic men are the real reason women are having children later
We are becoming a nation of older mothers. The average age at which a woman has her first child is…
How did I learn women are superior? From a burst water pipe
‘It’s always me who gets the worst of it,’ said the Fawn, surveying the wreckage caused by the burst water…
Can Theresa May find time to be her own housing supremo?
Theresa May has belatedly taken the advice I offered her here last May and named a supremo to tackle the…
Mohammad bin Salman is not a revolutionary. He’s the prince of PR
This week, Mohammad bin Salman, also known as MBS, is on his not-quite-state visit to Britain. A parade down the…
Forget the naysayers. Saudi’s crown prince is the real deal
In an interview this week, Mohammad bin Salman offered an extraordinarily frank assessment of how to combat terrorism. It means…
