The Morrison Government: we must spend money in order to save it
How about some right-minded activism in schools?
Fans of Geraldine Massey’s What’s Woke this Week columns know the woke world coughs up absurdities so ludicrous they’re funny. These…
The Morrison Government: we must spend money in order to save it
On Tuesday I wrote here, I wrote about the values vacuity of Prime Minister Morrison and his Government. Then, yesterday,…
That crackers consent ad? Blame the left for sanitising sex
Once upon a time, many moons ago, sex was sex and a milkshake was a milkshake. Now we’ve moved into this…
Climate follies: more than half a billion new spending to keep Joe Biden off our backs
The Government is desperate to appear to be doing more in the run-up to Joe Biden’s Climate Summit for Thursday…
Don’t forget the media’s part in our ongoing corona confusion
For the past year, Australians have been told to listen to the experts. Schools were closed, businesses were forced to…
Be warned: you come for Jane Austen at your peril
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woke society in possession of literary masterpieces must be in want of…
What’s philosopher-king Kev up to nowadays?
It was on this day in 2008 where that gathering of the best and brightest from across the land —…
It's Oscar season - and the season for the wokesploitation film
Films have always been political in how they mirror a world marred by contemporary politics and history. When done really…
Pollster consistently overstated Scottish independence support
Few events are as eagerly anticipated in Scotland as the release of a bombshell new poll. Unionists and nationalists eagerly…
The rules of Putin's game
What does Putin want? It’s more straightforward than you might think: usually the answer is ‘what he says’. It’s worth remembering…
Democrats bring a gun to a knife fight
‘Let them kill each other’ is now the message coming from the White House, the activist left and mainstream media…
Is No. 10 planning a vaccine passport ruse?
Michael Gove’s trip to Israel to study the country’s ‘green pass’ system isn’t diminishing the impression among Conservative MPs that…
The Prince of Wails will doom us all
Prince Philip and I had a cuppa at Government House, Melbourne, in March 1981 but since then we seem to…
Vaccines should be available to all & mandatory for none
The sheep spends its life fearful of the wolf and is grateful for the shepherd’s protection, only to be eaten…
Virtue-signalling to the left in your new EV
Picture the scene. It’s during one of the pre-polling weeks prior to the 2019 federal election. The electorate covers both…
Who the bloody hell are you?
Of our ten most recent prime ministers, all but one had acute political interest in their youth. Gough Whitlam was…
Covid’s jiggery-wokery
Given government’s infinite capacity to get things wrong, it’s extraordinary how the public continues to accept more of it. The…
Lest we forget
The World of Woke is waging war on Australia’s armed forces, with the Labor premiers of Victoria and Western Australia…
Why do politicians hate young Australians?
Does the Australian political class despise young Australians as much as they despise self-funded retirees, mum-and-dad farmers, coal miners and…
Professional sports are the wokest of them all
Campaign contributions are public information in the United States. So they know that political journalists lean Democrat massively, double figures…
Helen McCrory
At a time when people like Prince Philip looked as though they would live forever and the world was a…
The 23rd Biennale of Sydney
Advance notice has been given about the Biennale of Sydney for 2022. No one else should get overexcited about this…
Berlin
Theatre is slowly, tentatively opening up again and there’s no denying that a good play with however small a cast…
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism
Art movements and fashions may come and go but Australians love of their impressionists seems only to grow stronger. The…
Two of a kind: Monica Jones proved Philip Larkin’s equal for racism and misogyny
By the time Philip Larkin died in 1985, he’d long since achieved national treasure status: his poems were critically admired…
The jab that saved countless lives 300 years ago
This timely book celebrates one of the most remarkable women of the 18th century. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was so…
Marina Warner becomes her mother’s ‘shabti’
There comes a time after the death of parents when grief subsides, the sense of loss eases, and you, the…
Alan Duncan rants about ‘idiot’ parliamentary colleagues and Britain’s waning influence
As a budding political apparatchik, my first job out of university was as a junior parliamentary assistant to Alan Duncan…
A study in vulnerability: The Coming Bad Days, by Sarah Bernstein, reviewed
When the unnamed narrator of Sarah Bernstein’s The Coming Bad Days leaves the man with whom she has been living…
Apostle of modernism: Clive Bell’s reputation repaired
Clive Bell is the perennial supporting character in the biographies of the Bloomsbury group. The husband of Vanessa Bell, brother-in-law…
The problem of the Benin Bronzes will never go away
A book about the looted African art known as the Benin Bronzes begins by clarifying that most of them are…
Beware the woke misogynist
The #MeToo movement isn’t all it seems. More than three years after countless sexual abuse allegations shook the world, the…