The Age of Audits
Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…
Laurence Fox: sacrificed to the gods of eco-fascism
The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist…
Travels through the ruins of culture
The uneasy groan, stutter, and clunking of the modern age rises through the square in Italy’s coastal port of Trieste.…
‘Online Safety’ legislation is not about protecting children
Every time a politician tries to sell the idea of internet censorship, they wrap its wolfish features in the fluffy…
The Voice is the latest saviour cult
Is Western Civilisation’s middle-class being pranked? The people we thought we knew – peers, colleagues, relatives, and friends – are…
Paul Fletcher, the father of Australian censorship?
A lot of perfectly warranted criticism has been aimed at Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party over their proposed Misinformation…
What if the ‘out of Africa’ theory is wrong?
Those who have lived through the last two decades will be well acquainted with the increasing rigidity applied to scientific…
Hilariously failed gender re-education caught in the wild
I was sitting in a cafe last week when I overheard the pair sitting beside me. It was one of…
Disease X, Covid, and medical greed: this has been happening for years
Years ago, I wrote an article for this publication called, Digital darkness: the third apocalypse. In it, I included a discussion…
The big Teal regret over wind farms: flattened rainforests and ruined coastlines
It was a joke when we said, ‘Why not put wind turbines on Bondi Beach and see how the Teals…
Coutts’ apology to Nigel Farage is worthless
Remember when Coutts was worried about risking its reputation? We’ll call it ‘karma’ that their name hangs in shreds, draped…
Starving the cat: how ESG kills freedom
Our four dogs really really wanted to kill our cat. From their perspective, one day they were the supreme pack doted upon…
The weaponisation of conspiracy against truth
Credibility is the foundation of justice, not truth. It may not be strictly fair, but when it comes down to…
Time and tithe: the Climate Cult’s expensive virtue
Virtue has always been for sale. The oldest fragments of human civilisation contain tributes left for the gods in a…
Progressive censorship is headed down the same path as the ‘Rushdie bounty hunters’
Salman Rushdie did not die. Attempts to murder the author have been numerous, but Hadi Matar is the one charged…
Renewables and rare earths: the virtuous ravishing of South Africa
South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions. It’s one of those headlines you read and assume the Babylon…
The Sydney inferno
It was happenstance that I found myself walking up from Broadway yesterday afternoon. As I came to the crest of…
Net Zero politicians: liars, scoundrels, and morons
The lies told by politicians usually have no consequences. Their intellectual dishonesty, as a species, is such that citizens go…
Bad birdie! Twitter-faithful reject Musk’s CEO
Twitter users are a resilient bunch of customers. They spent the best part of a decade living under the increasingly…
Grace, mercy, and justice: a pledge no politician can make
On Saturday, I had two great privileges. The first was to attend the ceremony for His Majesty King Charles III’s…
Modern Art: an ugly reflection
Art is a reflection of civilisation. How apt then, that the last time I wandered beside the Arts Centre in…
Elon Musk: the keys to the cage
Liberty is a wild animal: it cannot be domesticated, it refuses to be tamed, and it’ll die if you force…
Has identity politics created a state of madness?
‘Does having children change your perspective on history, politics, philosophy, and the future of humanity? If so, is part of…
The politics of hunger
Starvation has ended more than one political empire. The pages of human history are frequently chaptered by acute moments of…
A diet of political insects
Speccie Editor Rowan Dean has already described the New South Wales election perfectly in this morning’s leading article. His remarks must…
