Why it’s all too white in Westeros
The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the…
Twice lucky – but for how long?
The other day having a coffee with an old friend we pondered, among more cheerful topics, the state of politics…
Who says we shouldn’t speak about ‘Cultural Marxism’?
It hasn’t been a good week for Brexiteers: A former Brexit minister and current Conservative MP has been criticised by…
Our bureaucrats now want to decide “what freedoms society ought to tolerate”?
One perhaps should not make too much out of remarks of one public official, no matter how senior – and…
The Christchurch killer behind the headlines
What makes a man apparently plan in cold blood for two years the mass murder of his fellow human beings,…
Climate strike? In my day it was nuclear first strike
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction…
Why myopic Millennials have red stars in their eyes
Irony is still not dead, despite never-ending attempts on its life – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to slag off capitalism at…
ABC Barbie
Congratulations to Ita Buttrose for being designated the next ABC chair, where the former Murdoch and Packer editor will no…
Won’t somebody please think of not having children?
There is now a group of some 60 men and women apparently, and no doubt growing fast, not least thanks…
Julie Bishop and the wars of succession
While Julie Bishop is retiring from politics at the next election, the recriminations and regrets that have been flowing through…
Journalist commits career suicide: tells truth on bias
CBS News foreign correspondent and a 60 Minutes regular Lara Logan gets interviewed by a retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland for his…
Donald Trump. Worst. Homophobe. Evah.
Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay…
ISIS MILFs* want back in
In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a…
Socialism: a Millennial religion?
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed…
Switching off a nation: no-coal Germany
In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds…
Alexandria’s new Children’s Crusade
Ben Shapiro twitted last week that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic…
Crazy Rich Commies
There nothing new or surprising in the fact that the self-proclaimed friends of the workers are living it up while…
Fr Rod: don’t give them your poor yearning to breathe free
Gosford’s finest continues to deliver, this time with this insightful critique of American society gleaned from, presumably, The Hunger Games:…
January 26: the least worst day for Indigenous Australians?
There is no doubt that Stone Age hunter and gatherer societies, having ruled the roost for hundreds of thousands of…
Wait a day, then comment
The mainstream media – let alone social media – are so good at generating instant outrage that I now have…
Peter Costello: smirk back in langour
Nostalgia has strange powers. With Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe…
No meat and two veg?
As the social mediaverse keeps discussing pros and cons of Gillette’s new ad, here comes PETA with the creepiest possible…
Is Tim Soutphommasane Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in drag?
At “The Sydney Morning Herald”, the former race discrimination commissioner Tim Sensitive-About-His-Name sings the praises of one of the new…
Politics is getting nastier because we’re getting dumber
An intriguing argument from a British politician and writer Dan Hannan: The fall in IQ scores in the West is…
Cirque du Sharia
Perhaps rejoicing at Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban are working hard not to…
