Flat White
Oh my Josh, it’s the Oprah budget
Pop culture obsessives will never forget the famous episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show where the queen of America gave…
Generation Z: Stalin’s little helpers
Gen Z are the source of Cancel Culture. They are the generation that pride themselves on a heightened state of…
Daniel Andrews and hotel quarantine: the case for the prosecution
We’re at the stage where another day is almost guaranteed to reveal another disaster for Victoria’s hotel quarantine scheme; another…
A pre-budget boost in the PM’s polling?
Is all the talk of budget benevolence already boosted Scott Morrison’s standing? Today’s Essential Poll provides some support for the…
Budget 2021: a spendathon sugar hit to keep the punters high till polling day
Despite Josh Frydenberg’s denials, we appear set for a spendathon budget tonight, a budget where an unexpected surge in revenue…
A is for arrogant, B is for boring and C is for contemptible
Over a year ago I wrote that ABC TV current affairs was in trouble and drifting badly. The people, policies…
Scotty from Marketing plays into the left’s lines about “problems with women”
It’s now a badge of honour to be seen as blatantly promoting women ahead of men. The papers of the past few…
The SMAge descends into imbecilism
And to think that we were under the impression that The SMAge’s target demographic was neurotic single women aged 18-45.…
“He’s a turd. He’s easy to loathe…”
“[He has] fallen into the classic trap of the egomaniac…This childish business of putting his leadership on the line every…
Coronavirus, borders and liberty
After happily voting for Scott Morrison, I had to do a double-take at his statements over the weekend about keeping…
Budget 2021: the dregs of the Labor party
At the start of the seventies, Kim Beazley Senior told an ALP conference “When I joined the Labor Party, it…
But it’s for your own protection…
Let’s face it. Our federation is a mess. Premiers are running their own shows, all to varied receptions, the Prime…
Spectator Australia TV: How can we get woke theories out of schools?
From nappies to mini Greta Thunbergs, the leftist lunacies of Australian schools must cease. The most vulnerable must be protected…
Covid and borders: Pharaoh or Moses?
When I first told my grandmother Audrey)that I was going to emigrate to Australia from England she told me that,…
Why ‘doing God’ is good for democracy
“We don’t do God” So said Alistair Campbell, communications director to the former British prime minister Tony Blair, to end…
Bill Shoten, stopped clock
“I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who…
When is a pandemic not a pandemic
From 1914 to 1918 the world was immersed in a conflict without parallel. Whereas all previous wars had involved no…
Go jump in the lake, Clover – and Twitter, too
There is something deeply disturbing about the connection between Silicon Valley censorship and the protection of our left-wing political class. …
The India travel ban and the double standards of the chattering Left
Last week former Labor leader Bill Shorten slammed the Morrison government for not tightly closing the border to travellers from…
The revised national curriculum is cancel culture on steroids
The release of the revised national curriculum, once again, has sparked a debate about the study of Judeo-Christianity and Western…
Woke insurgency and its weapons of mass destruction
There is a sense that everyday life has become a visit to the cinema. We suspend our disbelief as the…
What’s woke this week?
I’m increasingly reminded of Moby Dick’s Captain Ahab in the unhinged, pinpointed monomania of the woke. Melville describes Ahab thus: [H]is special…
Snow White and the intellectual dwarves
Snow White and her handsome prince are the most recent victims of the humourless woke scolds on the Left and…
Scott Morrison: a show about nothing
Speculation that the government would like to go to the polls by the end of this year has been swirling…
It’s time to give our military the medicine they need
Following the America decision to bring their troops home from Afghanistan after some 20 years in that troublesome country, Australia…
