The lockdown jig is up
Rishi Sunak regrets what they did, but did Albo get the memo?
From Moscow to Tony Abbott, via Annika Smethurst’s underwear drawer
Edward Snowden’s dad and a mate of mine are on the same page: Ed Snowden is “the greatest American patriot…
Why do we love our great big, bloated Aussie oligopolies?
There should be a special prize for journos who take up the pen against our corporate monsters – beasts that…
A defensive battle was won on May 18. A long slog’s still needed in the culture wars
When GoFundMe shut down Israel Folau’s fundraising campaign for his legal battle with Rugby Australia, it confirmed in spades the…
The surveillance state’s chameleons
In the USA they are collaborators with the “deep state”. In Australia, they are champions of privacy. Global tech companies…
Chinese eyes, Five Eyes
The ABC’s China correspondent, Mathew Carney, recently delivered a chilling report on mass surveillance in communist China, Leave no dark…
No way, Huawei!
John Lord, Huawei’s Australian Chairman recently told the National Press Club that he’d refuse any instruction from Beijing “to hand…
Pope Francis the Inevitable
Just the other day another juicy bit of Pope Francis ‘table talk’ hit the media to wide acclaim. Popularly endorsed…
The Benedict option revisited
Given a year has passed since the New York publication of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option, in March 2017, and…
Danger: America dreaming.
The other day The Wall Street Journal carried an op-ed praising America’s immigration project written by two academics, Tellis and…
Time to repent
The Judas-half of the Liberal Party that backed the Turnbull coup and destroyed the Abbott prime ministership now needs to…
The God question
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mark Kenny crowed. Australia’s “self-appointed conduits to the metaphysical” -– its Christian clergy — have been…
Same-sex marriage and the war on biology
Maybe there are folks out there in plebiscite land who believe that there are no robust intellectual arguments against same-sex marriage or, if there are…
The same-sex marriage revolution: same as them all
David Sergeant chilling piece “What’s changed in Britain since same-sex marriage?” describes the way in Britain the anti-marriage revolutionary agenda…
