Lana Starkey

When Hanlon’s razor fails

8 August 2024 2:30 am

Last month Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointed Jewish lawyer and businesswoman Jillian Segal as Australia’s first antisemitism special envoy. While…

Decolonising (or radicalising) the curriculum

26 February 2024 2:00 am

It appears our educational elites have learned nothing from 2023’s referendum on the Voice to Parliament. Despite promises of a…

Straight out of Marcuse

29 April 2023 5:00 am

‘The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in…

Fear and loathing in post-Covid Australia

25 April 2023 8:00 am

Three years ago, I was approached at a pub in Brisbane by a television station reporting on the mask mandates…

No me digas! Spain is leading Europe’s feminine swing to the right

2 March 2023 4:30 am

After almost three winters of discontent, Europe is swinging to the right and – reminiscent of the UK’s response to…

The Australia Day debate: an exercise in puritanical Gnosticism

26 January 2023 7:00 am

Michael Mansell, an Aboriginal Elder from the Aboriginal Land council Tasmania and secretary of the independence movement The Aboriginal Provisional…

Kanye’s Wild West

13 October 2022 12:00 pm

What are we to make of Kanye’s latest stunt where he wore a shirt that read, ‘White Lives Matter’? Can…

Meloni: the Italian Tory?

6 October 2022 11:00 am

‘Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves…

The old vague; finally breathless

25 September 2022 8:00 am

‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth…

Groan of Arc

25 August 2022 2:53 pm

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt – as the flames rose to her Roman nose – Bigmouth strikes…

Surf and TERF

14 August 2022 6:00 am

‘I read the news today oh boy… About a lucky man who made the grade. And though the news was rather…