Silencing dissent over abortion
Well-informed Flat White readers will be aware of the two abortion bills before the NSW Parliament, and the remarkable petitioning effort against it…
Even a broad church needs walls
Whatever internal troubles Malcolm Turnbull and the federal coalition were experiencing, it’s fair to say that Tuesday’s release of the…
Cory is not the enemy
As a member of the Liberal Party, and as a conservative classical liberal, I think it would have been better…
Wristband paedophilia?
If you’re not wearing the wristband, do you really believe in it? It’s an existentially fascinating question in our age…
Trump’s evangelical supporters are on the wrong side of history
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from…
Is the defender of the faith quailing?
Firstly, let me say in response to that headline, I doubt it. The Queen has spoken frankly throughout her life…
Nothing to do with Islam? Not again, Dopey Dan?
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews thinks that a man can say he’s a woman, and that makes it so. Recently, his…
Journos for censorship: the curious, confused Age
About the same time as I was finalising the leading article for last week’s Spectator Australia, a boffin at the Age was doing a…
Sub standard
The standard of submarine you float in is the standard you accept
Latte sipper of the Year
The Woolies’ Employee of the Month has more merit than the Australian of the Year
Wealth obsessed
Oxfam appear more concerned with the rich than the poor
Borderline insanity
The same people who cry ‘racial profiling’ over checks on Muslims are happy to see Israelis and Jews barred from many countries
Charlie n’est plus Charlie
One year on, the terrorists have won
ICAC makes a (fake) tit of itself
NSW’s notorious Star Chamber is undermining the very causes it is meant to promote
United we fall
In the wake of Paris, the United Nation’s corrupt moralising is even more disgusting than normal
Someone’s knockin’ at the door…
Two recent cases highlight the inconsistencies of who we choose to let in
Not so splendid chappies
The schools chaplaincy program pits government funding against religious freedom
Grounding jihadists
Our approach to de-radicalising would-be terrorists is worthy of Monty Python
It’s a liver!
A US scandal has abortion doctors offering a macabre menu of baby body parts
Qui est Charlie maintenant?
Charlie Hebdo’s name has been hijacked by the very people ‘Charlie’ despised
Bottom Drawer
Divorce as a protest to gay marriage is brave. But why not divorce now? Or better still, not at all.
The silence of evil
Hardened cockpit doors and ‘depression’ are more comforting to our modern minds
Getting the misery right
The death-circus surrounding the Bali executions has faint echoes of a famous musical
Bottom Drawer
Political tips for four-year olds
The Forgotten Lawyer
Touchy-feely slogans, emotive drawings and leading questions wouldn’t pass muster in a proper legal report
