Booze notes
Boycotting the marketplace of ideas For many years now, Coopers Pale Ale has been the favourite drink of Australia’s progressives.…
You don’t have to be good to do good
I am a regular listener to the Sunday morning service just after eight on BBC Radio 4. It’s a habit…
Dr Di Natale’s odd prescription for employment
Richard Di Natale’s inner-city industrial relations thought bubble is precisely the sort of thing you’d expect from a federal Greens…
Sorry Matilda, I don’t need no trigger warning
New Matilda has just published a lovely little piece by Michael Brull spitting on the grave of Bill Leak, entitled RIP Bill…
Campus censorship ratchets up
Free intellectual inquiry is under serious threat at universities across the Anglosphere. At the very places designed to inspire a battle of…
The great renewable energy swindle
As with all swindles, the great renewable energy swindle has ended with the sad realisation that we’ve been had. Having…
In defence of the Romanovs: the centenary of the February Revolution
A century ago today, as the Imperial Train sat impounded at a provincial station 180 miles from Petrograd, Russia’s last…
Left-wing intolerance must be called out
The Twitterati outcry over two democratically elected Members of Parliament discussing important national issues over a beer shows the absolute…
Daniel Andrews: one-term blunder?
Things have been grim for the Andrews ALP government for some time. Victorians voted in the Andrews Labor Government off…
My Bill
I met Bill Leak just the once. It was at a dinner party; my old boss was heading back overseas after a wonderful term of service…
Punk rock conservatism? Pretty vacant…
My dear darling Daisy, Thank you for your lovely letter. Please understand, when I say you’re not a conservative, it’s…
It’s quality all the way at Michelle Guthrie’s ABC
Broadcasting: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Michelle Guthrie. Her five-year contract: to explore strange new worlds, to…
Beer, the bible, boycotts and bigotry
Ok, let me clear my glass from the outset, I don’t drink beer. And no, it has nothing to do…
It was the Hanson wot won it
So the WA Liberal Government did a deal with Pauline Hanson and it cost them the election. Right? Labor can’t…
Have we outgrown Yes, Minister?
Part of the implicit deal between the ruling class and the ruled is that people are willing to overlook moderate…
The bleakest death of the year
Once in lower primary school I foolishly played keepies with my favourite marble, a large, sapphire coloured “Tom Bowler”, the…
Thank you, Colin Barnett
As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, let’s not forget that for 8 ½ years Colin Barnett…
Never mind the bollocks, here’s the punk rock right
The term ‘conservatism is the new punk’ has been thrown around a lot recently. Some have embraced the notion; happy to celebrate…
Is 18c now still just a fringe issue?
The sudden death of Bill Leak has been harrowing. You only realise how much you rely on cultural warriors when…
Fight back for Bill with a free speech commissioner
The left more than evidently know how to use the power of the state to achieve their political objectives. The…
Diary
Oh dear. Usually writers who contribute to these diaries start with something like, ‘To Paris. To launch my novel at…
America confronts Germany
From ‘The revelation of Germany to the United States’, 10 March 1917: Even if Mr Wilson stops short at his present…
Australian letters
Penalty rates Sir: The Fair Work Commission might want to know how much Tony Abbott is paying some of your…
Portrait of the Week
Home The Lords passed two amendments to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, voting by 358 to 256 to…
Islamophobia is dangerous humbug
Among the most purely dishonest expressions in modern politics (eclipsing even ‘Social justice’) is ‘Islamophobia’. A phobia – the word…
