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Jason Aldean’s critics have clearly never been to a small town
Country music superstar Jason Aldean has come under fire for a song that condemns violent crime and promotes the Second…
The strange glee over the European heatwave
You could almost sense climate campaigners willing those thermometers in Sardinia to nudge into the unknown – a reading above…
Children need to fight back against political indoctrination
There’s something troubling happening in our schools. In art class, my children have been instructed to make Black Lives Matter…
The Dispirit of Australia
In the schmalzy Qantas jingle ‘I Still Call Australia Home’, composer Peter Allen says he’s been to cities that never…
Why legacy students aren’t a civil rights issue
I just caught the news that four pages in a notebook dated 2014 and stuffed into a couch cushion have…
The cruelty of a trans beauty queen
BeKind is one of the Great Icks – to use the vivid word so beloved of Love Islanders – of…
Caster Semenya shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s events
Who can compete in women’s sports? This week’s decision by the European Court of Human Rights further complicates the debate. Judges in…
The CPS has completely caved to gender ideology
It would appear that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has finally caved completely to gender ideology. New CPS guidelines for…
Trans activists don’t help themselves
I’ve tried to stay out of the trans-rights conversation, honestly I have. There are a number of reasons for this,…
Rebellious Lawyering
One of the few silver linings to the cloud that is the Voice is that it has brought the public’s…
God the ‘Father’ isn’t sexist
Calling God ‘Father’ may be ‘problematic’, pronounced the Archbishop of York at Friday’s formal opening of the General Synod. Watching…
Watch: protestor crashes Osborne wedding
George Osborne’s happy day hasn’t gone as smoothly as the ex-Chancellor would have liked. First, he had to call in…
The trouble with Tate Britain
Tate Britain has had a facelift. The gallery describes its ‘rehang’, unveiled in May, as a chance for visitors to…
The problem with the word ‘problematic’
There have been groans of derision following the proclamation by the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cotterell, that the opening lines…
Watch: Douglas Murray eviscerates the case for historical apologies
As America celebrated 4th July yesterday, it appears not everyone over the pond was keen to celebrate the country’s Independence…
Why are high street banks teaming up with Stonewall?
Pride month is over but my local bank still has its rainbow-striped window display firmly in place. The LGBTQ+ theme…
NPR says Asian Americans should love affirmative action
NPR thinks Asian Americans should stand against the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action whether they like it or not. In…
Virginia Woolf doesn’t need a trigger warning
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Americans, apparently. Or at least that’s the conclusion Vintage US seems to have drawn. The…
Bank of England: ‘any gender’ can be pregnant
Talk about getting your priorities right. As ministers battle to get inflation down from the double digit highs of earlier…
A Warning from Mt Warning
Last October, Mt Warning was closed permanently to everyone except Aboriginal people by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment’s…
Affirmative action was hurting black students
Harvard may have a slightly more difficult time poaching black students from Boston College, Miami University of Ohio, or other…
The Transmaid’s Tale
It’s generally agreed that sex-selection is a Bad Thing. In India and China, sons are favoured over daughters – but…
The climate ‘crisis’ has nothing to do with the Holocaust
What is it with environmentalists and the Holocaust? Barely a month goes by without some prominent green or another outrageously…
Does the TUC understand what the word ‘mum’ means?
Imagine if, in 1868, when the TUC was founded, someone had told those warriors for workers’ rights that one day…
Mourning and Rage in Heidelberg West
As one exclusionary flag is reverently lowered in Melbourne’s Banyule City Council to mark the end of Pride month, a…
