David Flint

Has impeachment had its day?

1 February 2020 9:00 am

Impeachment has a noble past

King Kevin through the back door

24 January 2020 10:00 pm

Are the politicians planning to crown one of their own?

Gastrointestinal disease, climate change and a republic

18 January 2020 9:00 am

Whenever something adverse  happens these days, the event will more likely than not be attributed to,  or associated with, the…

Culpable negligence? Or criminal?

11 January 2020 9:00 am

What were the most important issues facing our politicians as we moved into spring? If we pause for a moment…

Harry and Meghan: ignore the so-called experts and leave them alone

10 January 2020 12:00 pm

Forget about Royal ‘experts’ who claim that there is some ‘Royal Split’, that Prince Charles and Prince William are ‘incandescent’…

Climate is a cop-out. Political pissants are to blame for our bushfire crisis

30 December 2019 5:00 am

Matt Kean, the New South Wales Minister for the Environment, recently blamed climate change for the current bushfires in Australia.  He…

Trump’s re-election is crucial

21 December 2019 9:00 am

Show trials, where the accused have no rights and guilt is predetermined, are integral to communist and Nazi regimes. They…

Politician, thy name is hypocrisy

14 December 2019 9:00 am

In the National Party room… everyone…tenaciously… opposed dairy deregulation. (But) when they came back in here (into the chamber), they…

Lock up the politicians

7 December 2019 9:00 am

A favourite argument of the elites is that something is ‘inevitable’  or, more subtly, ‘the planets are aligned’. Blasting what…

Guilt by association

30 November 2019 9:00 am

It was inevitable that Prince Andrew’s interview would be used to support a push for a politicians’ republic. Janet Albrechtsen…

Water, water everywhere

23 November 2019 9:00 am

These words from Coleridge’s great poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could have been the theme of the 2018…

Labor’s lamentable loss

16 November 2019 9:00 am

The question Labor grandees Craig Emerson and Jay Weatherill should have asked in their review of the ALP’s loss in…

Treachery of the elites

9 November 2019 9:00 am

The greatest struggle in the West, and especially amongst the English-speaking nations, is an internal one. This is not to…

PM abdicates responsibility

2 November 2019 9:00 am

The drought is our greatest problem today. While they can’t make it rain, it is elementary that governments can move…

Politicians are responsible for the drought

26 October 2019 9:00 am

‘I’m going to make a shitload of money.’ Peter, a farmer, listened intently to the merchant banker boasting to the…

Hold on, what about Holdaway?

19 October 2019 9:00 am

What do the years 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300 and 1400 AD have in common, asks British Professor,…

Coyote and Road Runner

12 October 2019 9:00 am

The biggest news story for years has been a real-life depiction of those classic cartoons, Coyote and Road Runner. In…

Revenge of the Remoaners

5 October 2019 9:00 am

If the UK Supreme Court’s decision on the prorogation or ending of the current session of Parliament were handed in…

Hit and run journalism

28 September 2019 9:00 am

Having failed to reverse the 2016 election through impeachment or declaration of mental impairment, the American mainstream media are determined…

Our unique opportunity

21 September 2019 9:00 am

Australia, more than any other, is a child of the two great English-speaking nations. They have for two centuries successively…

Prince Andrew’s trial by media

14 September 2019 9:00 am

In this year’s Star Chamber trial by media, Prince Andrew has been found guilty with instructions to with- draw from…

Alan Jones: tribune of the people

7 September 2019 9:00 am

David Flint writes: Alan Jones, probably the most influential commentator in the Australian media has announced his retirement from leading…

Fake constitutional change

31 August 2019 9:00 am

The 20th Anniversary of the landslide victory by the rank-and-file over a juggernaut of Australia’s elites —the mainstream media, most…

Moment of evil

24 August 2019 9:00 am

It was a moment of sheer evil. This was when the closely guarded secret bill to allow the killing of…

True leadership personified

17 August 2019 9:00 am

Although Napoleon said that every soldier carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, great leaders are rare. Since Churchill, the…