Will disgruntlement prevail again in 2017? Who knows, but at least 2016 was quite fun
Most of my predictions for 2016 were wrong; so let’s not revisit them. But I was right, in January, to…
I was right about 2016. So here’s what happens next
I’ve been looking at my predictions for 2016 made this time last year. It’s extraordinary — don’t check, just trust…
Why I was ashamed to love Status Quo
I bought a record in a second-hand shop in the summer of 1981. A double album. I made sure nobody…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not just the money cost of Senator Hinch’s amateurish meddling with legislation like the Australian Building and Construction Commission,…
Laughing at the devil
‘Prison did not touch me,’ declares Pussy Riot’s Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina, raising her eyebrows with a sardonic smirk. I am…
Apocalypse now
Gerald Barry loved playing organ for Protestants as they allowed him a lie in. Then they found out he wasn’t…
Apocalypse now
Gerald Barry loved playing organ for Protestants as they allowed him a lie in. Then they found out he wasn’t…
Why I was ashamed to love Status Quo
I bought a record in a second-hand shop in the summer of 1981. A double album. I made sure nobody…
The you-beaut NDIS
Let me start this by saying that I have a disability parking sticker from the government in recognition of my…
The ADF’s drug trial outrage
The anti-malarial drug trial scandal that has embroiled the Australian Defence Force for the last two years simply won’t go…
Anti hate laws: an attack on free speech
Anti-hate laws across the world and in Australia are being used to restrict free speech. In Australia, LibertyWorks recently reported…
South Australia: why it’s in this state
The SA economy is stagnating or even declining. The Labor government has been in power since 2002, now led by…
Politics 2016: everything’s changed but Australia
BOSTON, UNITED STATES — Back in 2015, shortly after the coup that brought Malcolm Turnbull to power, I contributed to…
Nothing to do with Islam? Not again, Dopey Dan?
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews thinks that a man can say he’s a woman, and that makes it so. Recently, his…
Christmas in Assyria
Once Assyria stretched from Cyprus to Iran and from the Caucasus to Egypt. Successive invasions and massacres have diminished both…
Leadership crisis dogs RSL
We are the dead . . . Take up our quarrel with the foe To you from failing hands we…
Bernardi must s— or get off the pot
Last weekend I encountered Cory Bernardi at the Bolt Report Christmas party. He’s a nice bloke: affable, serious, patriotic: a…
The alt-right rumble: round three
In an article published here some weeks back, I criticised those self-described conservatives who drone on endlessly about the diabolical…
MYEFO: revenue raisers v expenditure cutters
The Commonwealth government’s mid-year budget update shows the deficit/debt problem is no closer to being resolved. In 2007-08 (the last…
Trump the revolutionary
Donald J. Trump is a revolutionary no less than the late Fidel Castro. Why should military fatigues be de rigueur? It’s only a…
Je Suis Andrey
This should be a time for mourning, not only for Berlin’s dead but also for Russia’s. Whatever our disagreements with…
Assad’s Aussie cheerleader
On more than one occasion, I have put forward the thesis that some of the most deeply stupid and sinister…
You keep talking about that “Alt-Right”. I do not think it means what you think it means
If the manifold half-truths strewn throughout Michael Davis’ apologium for the alt-right constitute an offense against objectivity, surely the derivative…
Malcolm Turnbull contradicts himself over a republic
Malcolm Turnbull can advance only one extremely weak reason to justify the expense, division and enormous cost of both a…
Xenophon: the stuntman turns saboteur
Submariners fear nothing more than an unexpected explosion when submerged, particularly when it is an own goal. Such was the…
