Café Culture
Child soldiers in the culture war
As we move closer and closer to the referendum, stories are emerging from our schools that should make any parent…
The Manchester Evening News’s shameful treatment of a hotel employee
What is the purpose of a local newspaper? Time was, it was to stand up for local people against the…
Danielle McGahey should not be allowed to play women’s cricket
Danielle McGahey is set to become the first transgender cricketer to play an official Twenty20 international. The 29-year old Australian-born…
Homelessness in black and white
I stood across the street from Seattle’s City Hall, next to a long line of tents. There were more than…
The sinister online mobbing of Róisín Murphy
In the past they would put a witches’ bridle on women who yapped too much. Any woman judged to be…
Queering your schooldays
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia’s most elite training centre for the woke, has outdone…
A woke witch hunt has taken over the arts
Remove the preconceptions that stop you seeing clearly, and it is hard to tell the difference between how the arts…
Wear it Purple Day
For those who are keeping track of the woke liturgical calendar, today is ‘Wear it Purple Day.’ It is an…
The Woke can’t handle Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls axed from album
Only yesterday, I was reading about the website Worth it or Woke created by cinephile James Carrick, whose mission is to…
Wandsworth Council’s troubling trans case
News of a troubling case reaches Steerpike. Earlier this month the Administrative Court handed down judgment in the case of…
The endless hypocrisy of the comedy class
Personally I find TV panel shows pretty unbearable. They’re like being at a student party full of lairy smartarses you…
The virtue-signaling behind the renaming of the Middlebury College chapel
Early on the morning of September 27, 2021, Middlebury College president Laurie Patton had a stone bearing the name of…
Sadiq Khan’s racial dystopia
Imagine if the Mayor of London was a Tory and his website featured an image of a black family alongside…
Politics and power at the Canberra Writers Festival
This past weekend produced a veritable smorgasbord of political conferences to cater for all tastes. We had the 48th Labor…
WhatsApp messages shouldn’t be criminalised
Imagine a policeman feels your collar and tells you you’re nicked because someone has reported you for telling off-colour stories…
What does it take to get you cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe?
So, let me get this right: at the Edinburgh Fringe, comedians who make jokes about killing and raping women are welcome, but…
Saying No to elite politicking
This blurring of lines between the sporting arena and the political arena has to stop, especially when it comes to…
Social Justice Scouts
Parents in the UK are up in arms because the Scouts have been caught hiring seven new Diversity & Inclusion…
Referendum ready ‘yes’ voters
This week, the NSW Department of Education released a new draft History syllabus for Years 7-8 and I’m afraid there’s…
Lizzo and the problem with Fat Activism
Remember when we all loved Lizzo? In 2019 ‘Juice’ (the last great party anthem BP – Before Pandemic) was a…
America’s female footballers should sing their national anthem
Just four members of the US football team at the Women’s World Cup sang their country’s national anthem before their game against…
Bring back normies!
The Cambridge Dictionary defines ‘normie’ as ‘a normal person, who behaves in the same way as most other people in society’. Merriam-Webster tells us it refers ‘to one whose tastes, lifestyle,…
Unwelcome to Skybus
The least a passenger can expect from boarding a bus is that the bus company knows where you are departing…
The UN’s climate alarmism has gone too far
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has declared that ‘the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has…
Meghan, Harry and the truth about sexist adverts
Do Harry and Meghan need rescuing from their Montecito mansion? Being part of the royal family and living among California’s…
