Is Facebook really on the ropes?
It may be counter-intuitive, but American investigative and Pulitzer winning journalist Glenn Greenwald makes a strong argument that paints Facebook…
Big Tech has placed its bet – on the Genghis Khan of our time
The nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen’s greatest fear when thinking about the future has come true. He said “What I’m…
The new provocateurs of Covid
The extraordinary 1988 John Hillcoat/Nick Cave film Ghosts … of the Civil Dead is set in a slightly futuristic high-tech…
Beware Stumbling Joe’s mumbling, Scotty
When they were talking the other day in Washington the other day, did Joe Biden tell Scott Morrison his recipe…
Aussie Life
As a child in Budapest, I heard my grandfather tell the family around the Sunday lunch table to beware the…
Australia, we’ve got you cowered
If you didn’t already think so, the news that police have received thousands of calls from Aussies dobbing in other…
Imagine … no state borders to close
The premiers are tearing the federation apart. Let’s hope they succeed very soon. To see my point, just close your…
Funny how climate activists don’t seem to know how the climate works
If you listen to this week’s IPCC’s report launched in Glasgow (and to the hysterical activists burning prams outside Australia’s…
Dear (as in expensive) political leaders: you have failed
The fact that people vastly overestimate the number of deaths from Covid as recent polls have shown, is a signal…
The West must disown Big Tech Big Brother
Almost three weeks ago, Twitter suspended The Spectator Australia for 12 hours for a Tweet that paraphrased that wildly incendiary…
Question everything
On learning about the extension to Sydney’s lockdown until the end of July, my mind broiled with one big question:…
Truth on social media? Geoffrey Robertson is keen
Truth on social media? It’s a wonderful idea, one espoused by high profile human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on Sky…
Find the CO2
Man-made carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is responsible for catastrophic climate change, according to climate alarmists. We must stop…
Dishonesty, thy name is Leftie
Now that two well-credentialed academics acceptable to the left have debunked Bruce Pascoe’s blindly acclaimed ‘history’ book Dark Emu as…
Getting Ridd of junk science
As the High Court judges retire to consider the Science Case of the Year, Peter Ridd v James Cook University,…
Miss New Zealand
Male-born Laurel Hubbard’s admission to the women’s Olympic weightlifting competition as a representative of New Zealand is, of course, absurd. …
Cannes goes off the planet
Seemingly infected by Thunbergism, the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, set to run from July 6 – 17, has re-imagined itself…
How we flag our racial prejudice
Australia is a systematically and institutionally racist country; that is the story peddled by the Australian Human Rights Commission at…
A quick science story for today’s school strikers
Geologist and author Ian Plimer was the special guest on Paul Murray Live on Tuesday, in to talk about hydrogen…
What keeps President Xi awake at night?
Australia has earned the international community’s respect — and got China’s attention — with our highly visible resistance to Beijing’s…
The science is unsettled? The SpecOz settled that years ago
The title of the new book, Unsettled, could refer to the effect it will have on readers who believe in…
Trick question: why test brick wall with head?
The late and great American columnist Charles Krauthammer reminded his readers that to understand politics you have to remember that…
Biden does a Merkel on illegal immigrants. Oops
In 2015, Angela Merkel opened her heart — and Europe’s borders — to all comers wanting refuge and/or a better…
Taxpayers shouldn’t pay ABC fines
It’s down the line, I know. The trial hasn’t even started. But that doesn’t stop us looking ahead and being…
Obama’s coup
In his riveting but deeply disturbing new book, The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President, investigative journalist…
