Flat White
Why President Trump means we can stop apologising
My colleagues at my day job are, for the most part, aware that I do a bit of writing on…
Trump and the media fail
As Rowan Atkinson playing the Devil said welcoming atheists to hell, “You must be feeling a right bunch of nitwits!”…
Has our right missed the story of the week?
All Trumped out? No excuse. The Australian right has not only failed to capitalise on the story of the week.…
Trump: it’s not just the economy, stupid
So, it’s happened. Donald Trump is not only now being referred to by a sneering press pack as the ‘President…
Death in Dili
This week marks several significant anniversaries in the life of our youngish nation. November 11 resonates because it was the…
The Age hits peak moron
Ok, I know I’ve already declared The Age dead. It is. Its former readers are just waiting for Fairfax CEO…
Donald Trump and the return of the Gipper
In 1984, the GOP experienced the single greatest presidential electoral result with 525 electoral votes and 49 states voting for…
Opera suggestions for Julian Burnside
Look what joys Classic FM, the dumbed-down ABC station for serious music fans yet to discover the far superior, subscriber-supported…
Euthanasia zealots never say die
Yet another euthanasia bill is about to be debated, this time in the South Australian Parliament. The Death with Dignity…
We already have our Trump
I enjoyed the sainted editor, Rowan Dean’s, rollicking Flat White account of his Trump, Trump, Trumpety-Trump election count party. Any…
A strange win for the common man
When I got home last night from an election celebration held by friends, and former political colleagues, in which I had to submit…
#TrumpsAussieMates
Appearing on Lateline the other night as the only Trump supporter the ABC producers could find willing to predict a…
Battling the pragmatic left: a five step guide
The Pragmatic Leftist is a dangerous beast. A rare phenomenon; this particular political animal differs from other leftists, who tend…
You up the back there, Spectator reader, stop laughing
[We wanted to parody the virtue signallers’ reactions to the Trump victory but wanted to ensure we published something high-quality.…
So much for elite opinion
On the morning of the American presidential election, The Australian, with all the massive North American and indeed worldwide resources…
Indigenous kids failed again
The Family Matters report released by SNAICC, the peak Indigenous child welfare services lobby group, is a recipe for perpetuating…
The incendiary Greens
Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake on May 30, 1431 for her defence of Orleans during the Franco-English…
Religion, ABC-style
“The Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne has blasted the ABC for axing most of its religious programming,” The Australian reports today,…
The right is to blame for Trumpery too
Explaining Trumpery in terms of the attitudes of the Left alone gets the story precisely backwards. Yet that is what…
November 8: decision time
Just as with Australian elections, American elections are not as untainted as they should be with the latest bombshell being…
Brexit means Brexit – and democracy, too
The stench of elite hatred for democracy is sifting through the streets of London. The courts have ruled against the…
The CSIRO’s political science
As the grandson and son of coal miners I grew up fascinated by mining. I accompanied dad to work, built…
The presidential race? It’s better than 1856, folks
Politics is like baseball. Like Australia’s summer pastime, it’s a numbers game, and there’s an old saying that three economic…
The government’s a mess, but remember Labor’s old ideals
Remember all that Marxist/Leninist guff, circa a century ago, about public ownership of the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy? If…
Niki Savva, racist? Blame Menzies
“Political columnist Niki Savva is copping criticism after using the expression ‘killed a Chinaman’ on television,” Buzzfeed, the politics website…
