Mark Powell

Ten flaws with Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony

4 October 2018 7:57 am

I once heard of a young woman who decided to become a Christian after reading a single verse from the…

Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo inquisition

30 September 2018 5:11 pm

One particular aspect that has been repeatedly overlooked—yes, I’m referring to you Huffington Post—throughout the whole judicial fiasco involving the…

Ten reasons why having children is a good idea

24 September 2018 7:44 am

The NHS Trust in the town of Walsall, east of Birmingham in what was once the heart of Britain’s industrial…

So what will you do about “gender whisperers”, Prime Minister?

6 September 2018 11:14 am

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said earlier this week that the reason why he has chosen to send his daughters to…

Sexuality quotas? Really?

4 September 2018 5:29 pm

Remember when Lisa Wilkinson—the highly-paid host of Channel Ten’s, The Project—claimed that ‘absolutely nothing’ would change with the redefinition of…

Fr Rod: blowback – or blowhard?

2 September 2018 10:12 am

Did you happen to see Madonna’s ‘tribute’ speech to Aretha Franklin at this year’s MTV music awards? The reason I…

Don’t say Cory was right after all?

17 August 2018 7:01 pm

Tom Raue, the Greens candidate for Summer Hill in NSW, has recently been in the news for publishing two separate…

Do we have an ADF gender dissembler?

12 August 2018 8:53 am

Forget about all the recent furore over the politically correct ‘They Day’ fiasco, where the approximately 10,000 staff of the…

The Ruby Rose Batwoman PC Comics special

9 August 2018 12:30 pm

Forget about the Australian Defence Force getting rid of gender-neutral pronouns, or the inequity of transgender athletes competing in sporting…

Australian unis: no thinking allowed

6 August 2018 7:46 am

If you’re still in any doubt as to the insidious influence of the Left’s long march through nearly all of…

After euthanasia, then what?

3 August 2018 2:04 pm

Peter van Onselen was right when he wrote in The Weekend Australian recently that there is an even more significant…

Going the full Kafka on free speech

1 August 2018 5:12 pm

It was Franz Kafka—the famous twentieth-century German writer—who once said, “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of…

The Gilead crusade?

26 July 2018 8:01 pm

Reverend Dr Michael Bird of Ridley College, Melbourne, is an accomplished author for The Spectator Australia as well as academically…

Free speech now carries a hefty price tag

23 July 2018 11:01 am

What happened to Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux in Melbourne over the weekend is a potent example of how free…

Thank you, Ms Ford – if you’ve finished

20 July 2018 11:31 am

For feminists like Clementine Ford, it seems that absolutely everything is about gender, even when the evidence tells a different…

Could this be the end of Roe vs Wade?

16 July 2018 12:04 pm

Well, President Trump continues to defy his critics’ dire predictions of economic catastrophe and political Armageddon. First, there is the…

The big British babies bawling about Trump – and tantrum tyranny

10 July 2018 1:25 pm

It seems that one of the things which people on the left fear most is being taken over by some…

How the ABC’s facile feminists boost the baser instincts

9 July 2018 2:01 pm

One of Australia’s least funny comedians, Tom Ballard, is at it again. No, not of being accused of sexual assault—a…

Whatever happened to that same-sex marriage boom?

5 July 2018 9:55 am

Now that all the glitter has settled after last year’s non-binding voluntary postal survey—remember, we couldn’t be trusted to have…

Do the Greens go for pre-teen sexts?

2 July 2018 10:37 am

It’s now official. The world has gone completely mad and the Greens have so utterly lost the plot politically that…

The Ramsay Centre? It’s still all Tony Abbott’s fault, apparently

29 June 2018 2:11 pm

I must say, Peter van Onselen is doing nothing for the editorial standards over at The Australian at the moment…

Religion, repentance and refugees

27 June 2018 4:09 pm

Tonight, in the national capital, Brian Douglas, the Rector of St Mark’s Anglican Church at Manuka and the Archdeacon on…

When the left became louche

25 June 2018 7:51 am

I discovered a new word this week: ‘louche’. Just in case you hadn’t heard of it before either, according to…

Dorothy Hewett: even libertines need limits

15 June 2018 10:27 am

Dorothy Hewett is the perfect illustration of what happens when feminism turns feral. The Sydney Morning Herald has said that…

Has Dark Mofo lost its mojo?

13 June 2018 7:53 am

Dark Mofo is one of those pretentious displays of artistic expression that make most people roll their eyes and sigh.…