We can’t get a Greta, but bring on Bella…
Gaia be praised! Greta Thunberg was otherwise occupied, but Richard Di Natale’s got himself his very own election klimate katastrophist…
Dr Dick and his Smokin’ Tokens
Someomes it’s best just to let the original speak for itself: (Of course, it would be even more egalitarian if…
How the Greens don’t get capitalism yet star at self interest
The Greens, it would be fair to say, don’t understand captialism. Equally, it would be approprate to say that advertising…
Patronising the arts
The first of an occasional series by the Flat White team. “The Massachusetts of the south.” That’s how John Howard once…
Who can feel an election coming on, Flat White contributors?
Well, we’re on. That means we want contributions. Pithy, punchy, provocative pieces on Australian politics and the campaign. All you…
Now we know how the SMH and Age will define “mainstream” in the election
Boy. Boy oh boy oh boy. Channel Nine’s left wing tabloids have really jumped the shark. “Reparations for black Americans:…
Numptynomics
Looks like a slightly startling Sloane Ranger mummy (or Simon Le Bon) from 1981, sounds like a student trot mixed…
A campaign launch disguised as a budget
It’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before. In other words, it’s business as usual in Australian politics – business as…
A Liberal man of letters: Peter Coleman, 1928-2019
Journalist, parliamentarian, editor, author and Spectator Australia columnist Peter Coleman has died in Sydney at the age of 90. He…
NSW: a reality check
Congratulations to Gladys and the hair gel lads for their result yesterday. And for Scot, here’s a history lesson. On…
It’s all wishful thinking, but boy does it drive clicks
Independent. Always. Ah, yes. That pledge below the mastheads of Nine Entertainment’s left-wing tabloids to give you the sort of…
Turnbull’s coup delusion – they weren’t afraid that I would lose, but I would win
Forget about Julie Bishop and her “I could have won the election” lines from Sunday. In an infinitely more damaging…
Labor’s woman problem
Their ABC and Nine’s dead tree division (and dying limbs), The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, have done their…
Flat White: a statement
Last week the Flat White website published a letter from a reader with an accompanying illustration. The post was removed immediately…
Satan: an apology
We’ve been asked to pull a post out of respect for the privacy of “a non-theistic Satanist that participates in…
The Spec Oz has been Zucked by Facebook
If you’re wondering where we are on Facebook today, we’ve been told to get Zucked. We used a cropped version…
