#RepublicanLivesMatter
BOSTON, UNITED STATES – Last March I wrote an article about Trump Derangement Syndrome: ‘the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal…
Deranged notes
Imagine: scouts burst into Queen Elizabeth I’s throne room. ‘Your Majesty,’ they pant, ‘the Spanish have sent an armada to…
Saudi notes
The sight of President Trump dancing the Ardah at the Arab Islamic American Summit is like a splash of icy…
Millenial Notes
Nothing’s quite so bloody tedious as that niche of right-wing media devoted solely to Millennial-bashing. Some ‘journalists’ get paid big…
Immigration notes
Anzac Day was the day I fell in love with Australia. There’s no greater testament – none at all –…
Pope Francis’ flock and Islam’s wolves
The Holy Father’s been having a tough time lately. He recently gave a statement to reporters on the war against…
Conservative notes
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether Marine Le Pen or Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France on May 7. As…
Trumpian notes
My phone rings; a name flashes across the screen. Giorgio. ‘It’s done,’ he says in his husky Greek accent. With…
Gay Marriage Notes
Kudos to Tim Wilson (to whom I don’t, as a rule, give kudos) for defending Mark Allaby’s right to be…
Smoker’s notes
Well, it’s finally happened. A life of debilitating asthma and six years of chain-smoking unfiltered cigarettes have finally come to…
Deplorable notes
Researching for my last piece on Enoch Powell, I was more than a little amused to read about the abuse…
Immigration notes
February 8 was Enoch Powell’s death day, God rest him. I observed it by reading his Collected Poems, a stately…
Deplorable notes
First, an apology. In my cover story last week (‘The Cory revolution’) I implied that Miranda Devine supported the Turnbull…
The Cory revolution
It’s hard to imagine that, less than five years ago, Cory Bernardi was Tony Abbott’s parliamentary secretary. The role suited…
The Cory revolution
It’s hard to imagine that, less than five years ago, Cory Bernardi was Tony Abbott’s parliamentary secretary. The role suited…
Deplorable notes
Welcome-ish news from the Australian last week: ‘With the Syrian rebel front crumbling under the combined might of a Russian…
Deplorable notes
Commentators here in America called President Trump’s (sweet Jesus, does that sound good) inauguration speech ‘dark’, proving again their own…
Deplorable notes
Which was the most tragic celebrity casualty of 2016? Was it George Michael, the most gifted queer since William Shakespeare?…
Immigration notes
At last, we’ve found something worse than Islamists: Millennial Islamists. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali refugee who carried out…
What’s Trump got to “disavow”?
BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The Ku Klux Klan is planning a rally to celebrate the election of Donald Trump and,…
Media notes
Mate, I tell ya. Jim-friggin’-Allan. No one else’s writing quite has the power to make me physically sick. His piece…
Trumpian notes
Gavin McInnes won Australians’ hearts and minds when he called Waleed Aly an ‘East Indian retard virgin micro-penis’, and I…
Cory Bernardi and the deplorables
Cory Bernardi has endorsed Donald Trump… kind of. Writing on Facebook, Bernardi said: For millions of Americans worried about what…
Milo Yiannopoulos and the @Nero fallacy
Milo Yiannopoulos, the social media agent provocateur banned from Twitter for mocking the star of the oh-so-PC, all-female Ghostbusters remake,…
John Howard upsets Sydney’s sandstone soviet
Sydney University staff already skip off to Syria to help Bashar al-Assad with his propaganda ploys and get involved in…
