How the left make their own reality
There are facts, but your perception of these facts differs depending on your values and beliefs. There is nothing new…
I’m from the Deep State and I’m here to help
It’s 2019, so it’s perhaps time to update Ronald Reagan’s famous dictum that “The most terrifying words in the English…
Don’t even think that. It’s ray-shist
When people say that members of other races all look the same to them, are they just being lazily racist or…
If Trump says two plus two equals four, it must be wrong (and evil, too)
Blind hatred makes people irrational. When you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, you are likely to take the opposite view…
Let sport be sport — and sod the Chinese cash
Sport used to be one of the last institutions that could transcend all the divisions in society – at least…
How dare he!
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has stolen even more of Greta Thunberg’s childhood by winning this year’s Nobel Peace…
Implementing Greta
I have written before about the actual policy proposals supported by Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strike initiative, which they see…
China: almost 70 million dead to show for 70 years
The People’s Republic of China this week has celebrated 70 years of existence. At the start of October 1949, Mao…
Alexander Downer and Russiagate: be it sleaze or a smear, we need the facts
The hills are alive with the sound of shrieking from the Democrats and their PR wing in the mainstream media…
Greta grates, so why can’t capitalism sell itself
Yawn. The whinging is as reliable as clockwork. Just the packaging changes: The UN has called for a global “green new…
The evil of Greta’s grand guignol
Question. Answer. No. What? You want more detail. Ok… It’s really a no-brainer. Revolutionary movements like communism and Nazism, which…
What’s behind the global climate tantrum? Hello, socialism
According to the United Nations – and Greta Thunberg – four million people around the world, mostly students who walked…
Gladys Liu and the danger of being everything to everyone
I don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she has any compromising…
What sex is your penguin?
Humanity has anthropomorphised animals since time immemorial, from hunters-gatherers to Disney, so no wonder that contemporary madness is slowly seeping into…
Asking for the sisterhood: where have all the good men gone?
Equality between the sexes, so good in theory, doesn’t necessarily deliver in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the…
Official: climate change denial is misogyny
The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In other words, those who don’t believe in…
The great ‘what ifs’ of September 3, 1939
Eighty years ago today, World War II began. On September 1, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and…
To say that the left are bad losers is a major understatement
Contrary to the impression you might get from reading my blog or following me on social media, I’m not actually…
Free thought is bad for you, philosophers decree
Last year, Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College (and the author…
The Amazon is burning – but the Chicken Littles pants are also on fire
Amazon rain forest is burning in Brazil and people are angry: When a fire tore through Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris earlier…
Nick Kyrgios is a dick (and other startling revelations)
Nick Kyrgios is a dick. True, I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him, but…
Here come the new eco-fascists
“The Washington Post” beat me taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried…
Lies, leeches and Chinese whispers: one not so enchanted summit
What was that Malcolm Turnbull once said about “the prime minister who broke the nation’s heart”? Whatever the case, he…
It’s gender inequality – but not like you’ve seen it
A team of researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex have produced a new way of measuring…
Planes, trains and Greta Thunberg
This is what the Steve Martin/John Candy classic comedy would be like if remade by Greta Thunberg. In the Swedish version,…
