The End-of-Disco election
Some may remember the 1979 ‘disco demolition’ concert in Chicago. A garish event planned for between the games of a…
The final hoax
Betting markets have firmed decisively in Trump’s favour; polls are tightening and trending towards the former President; and Harris’ campaign…
Depp wins battle, but men are losing the war
Along with many around the world, I predicted Johnny Depp would win his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Predictably, much…
Best show in town: Heard v. Depp
The skip-bin fire that is the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation trial will wrap up within days and then the nine-person…
Norm Macdonald – exceptionally normal
Norm Macdonald, that plain-speaking Canadian comic who died this month, aged 61, showed us how to respond with humour and…
Why aren’t we including porn in debate over ‘toxic culture’?
The Canberra Bubble has become the unlikely setting for a conflict that had to come – between the desiccated descendants…
Why is the Pope trolling Traditional Catholics?
In Rome in October 2019 a young traditional or ‘Trad’ Catholic man grabbed several small Amazonian ‘mother earth’ statues from a church near the Vatican and threw them into the River Tiber. The five small wooden statues had…
Only jokes will let us survive our new Clown World
The inauguration of President Joe Biden has heralded the onset, like no other event in recent times, of Clown World. Conservatives, populists and sane people everywhere…
The crushing lack of curiosity of the MSM
The legacy news media appears determined to nail down its own coffin-lid, as its former viewers and readers are forced to seek…
