Decolonising (or radicalising) the curriculum
It appears our educational elites have learned nothing from 2023’s referendum on the Voice to Parliament. Despite promises of a…
Straight out of Marcuse
‘The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in…
Fear and loathing in post-Covid Australia
Three years ago, I was approached at a pub in Brisbane by a television station reporting on the mask mandates…
No me digas! Spain is leading Europe’s feminine swing to the right
After almost three winters of discontent, Europe is swinging to the right and – reminiscent of the UK’s response to…
The Australia Day debate: an exercise in puritanical Gnosticism
Michael Mansell, an Aboriginal Elder from the Aboriginal Land council Tasmania and secretary of the independence movement The Aboriginal Provisional…
Kanye’s Wild West
What are we to make of Kanye’s latest stunt where he wore a shirt that read, ‘White Lives Matter’? Can…
Meloni: the Italian Tory?
‘Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves…
The old vague; finally breathless
‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth…
Groan of Arc
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt – as the flames rose to her Roman nose – Bigmouth strikes…
Surf and TERF
‘I read the news today oh boy… About a lucky man who made the grade. And though the news was rather…
