The Sydney Writers’ Festival: so woke you want to call for blood tests
The guest list for the Sydney Writers’ Festival reads like a roll call for the Spanish Inquisition. Sure, there are…
Why is Pirate Pete scared of Craig Kelly?
Peter FitzSimons, the man who would be ‘king’ of Australia if he got his republican wish, has revealed how little the…
You can’t truly love the planet unless you kill like Ghengis Khan
I will be honest, I double-checked the date when I saw an article from the Guardian titled, ‘Why Genghis Khan…
Women are dangerous
No one has done more damage to the employment prospects of young women than Labor and their feminist activist mates. …
Guys, your shirt is literally oppressing me
We have come a long way since white chalk exercised the privilege of writing on blackboards. I am pleased to…
For those who dare because it’s there
Russia is a weird place – not that anyone can blame them. It is an insane landmass, brutalised by geography…
Quotas are trash
I’m sorry, but being in possession of a pair of chest-feeders should not double as a political qualification. There is…
It’s Flannerying at the farm and we’re going under
Tim Flannery promised me a desert, but all I’ve got is this brand new murky-looking ocean full of confused kangaroos. …
Blood in the water
Tibet is a glass of water balanced at the top of the world. It occupies the crumple zone leftover from…
Milo comes out as straight, chaste and Catholic
Milo Yiannopoulos coming out as ‘straight’ is like taking the Social Justice final exam, where you have to sit down…
It’s only a small business
Covid is a mismanaged economic disaster that has done more damage to the financial, social, ethical, and legal structure of…
India caged by China’s belts and roads
Joe Biden’s decision to consider lifting sanctions on terrorist-operated Iran has lifted plenty of eyebrows. The Iran nuclear deal never…
The new necessity for civil disobedience
The twenties are a difficult period for any century. We are no different, having reached the point where the stresses…
Please don’t eat me!
This just in. Scientists have taught spinach how to send emails. Idiots at MIT, who never watched enough sci-fi horror…
Twitter’s new moderators: #Birdwatch or birdshot?
Birdwatching is a pleasant, passive sort of ‘niche’ activity. Avian enthusiasts go about their lives, keeping an eye out for…
Kelly’s heroes
Craig Kelly’s existence poses an existential problem for the Liberal Party. It is difficult to work out how far a political…
Say that you love me
The only thing politicians fear is the media. If they own the media, they have nothing to fear. This is…
Welcome to the Age of the Goldfish
I hope you all have a good memory, because you are going to need it. Modern political events are being…
The Great Purge
Beneath the noise of America’s Capitol Hill protests lurks the silent rise of Silicon Valley. Tens of thousands of social…
Nancy Pelosi shows: gender is for bigots
Author’s Note: my editor refused to remove his (its) comments. Apologies. Stand and applaud, a great injustice has been corrected…
How good is ScoMo’s ‘new and improved formula’ national anthem?
Ever since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (ridiculous) decision to announce via Tweet the changing of Australia’s national anthem, the usual…
2020: The year in review with Alexandra Marshall
If we have learned anything from 2020, it’s ‘don’t eat bats’. From Ebola to Covid, these winged Petri dishes have proved…
The Greens: we’re washed up
Can I interest anyone in a festive tea-towel? The Australian Greens are flogging a new range optimistically titled ‘legends’ featuring…
The tests are in – and Kev’s caught bots
Poor Kevin Rudd, standing there in front of Twitter, holding up his little bot-infested petition. I was going to write…
The fox among the pigeons
Our empty streets have been taken over by pigeons and politicians. The cooing mass scratches around inside the halls of…
