Nick Kastelein

Walk for Life

19 March 2024 3:00 am

This was not the first time I marched at a Walk for Life, but it was the first time I…

Space junk

1 January 2024 2:00 am

Like space junk in the stratosphere, the Western fiction-sphere is increasingly cluttered by a vast cloud of unfinished stories. This…

The Culture Wars need a touch of sincerity

7 January 2023 5:00 am

When it comes to the Culture Wars in 2023, I have two simple resolutions: Assume they are sincere. Be sincere.…

The rings have lost their power

22 October 2022 12:43 pm

Amazon Prime’s Rings of Power sinks into the pit of Woke oblivion

Biden unwisely wages war on MAGA

7 September 2022 4:00 am

It is popular on the left side of politics to charge people with the terrible crime of destroying democracy. Yet…

Energy reality bites hard

23 June 2022 9:00 am

Energy crises have a useful ambiguity to them. Each crisis creates an opportunity for everyone to claim that, ‘It would…

The story of oil

6 April 2022 9:00 am

Don’t look to experts for predictions. ‘Experts’ are just as surprised by everyone else at what actually transpires each day…

History is not determined by the majority

20 February 2022 9:00 am

Only a small number of leaders make world-changing decisions. Only a small portion of votes elect these leaders. Only a…

The Matrix Resurrections - better off dead?

13 January 2022 2:00 pm

The Matrix: Resurrections would have been better off remaining dead. Honestly, don’t bother watching it. I was sceptical about whether…

It's a win for 'Novax' and a win for Australia

11 January 2022 12:00 pm

I’m glad that Novak Djokovic will have a chance to defend his title at the Australian Open. Good luck ‘Novax’.…

Chin up, it’s Christmas!

24 December 2021 12:00 pm

My parents always taught me to remember that I have a lot to be thankful for. And it’s true, of…

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Welcome to the post-post-racial world

13 December 2021 4:00 am

There’s something sinister about the fake hate crime that Jussie Smollett perpetrated in 2019. Last week he was found guilty,…

Here’s to the risk takers

29 November 2021 6:27 pm

In the 1870s and 80s, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the engineering landmarks of the day.…

The terrible truth about hydrogen

16 November 2021 3:07 pm

The idea of using hydrogen in the energy industry is not a new one, but only in the last two years has it…

Vaccine mandates and passports are simply a bad idea

18 September 2021 3:54 pm

Covid-19 vaccine mandates and passports are a bad idea.   I don’t want to suggest that they are unconstitutional, or…

Coronavirus: time for Plan D?

27 July 2021 6:45 pm

I think it’s time for plan D.  Plan A, as I’m sure you remember, was to “flatten the curve”. For…

I joined the South Australian division of the Liberal Party…

22 June 2021 4:00 am

Last week, I received a message from two friends on one day. They had tried to join the Liberal Party…

Dear ABC, how did this get broadcast

15 June 2021 1:35 pm

One of the best emails I get in my inbox (after Spectator’s Morning Shot, of course) is the Fourth Watch Newsletter…

A cause worth dying for – versus euthanasia

3 May 2021 7:02 pm

 The government’s attitude to death is paradoxical. While imposing restrictive rules on the population last year to prevent us from…

Big Tech: private companies now wielding the coercive power of government like a one-party state

31 January 2021 7:46 pm

Anyone with siblings knows that trying to win an argument by yelling louder than your sister, or sticking fingers in…

The mounting problem of, er, multi-racial whiteness

21 January 2021 7:00 pm

How are we to reconcile the fact that white supremacists are increasingly ethnically diverse? This oxymoronic conundrum has recently been…

No, inequality is not discrimination

15 June 2020 5:26 pm

A problem misdiagnosed is a problem mistreated.  Many people today assume without question that all inequality is the result of…

Among all this oddness, we’ve been given the gift of time. Let’s not waste it

1 April 2020 12:30 pm

I’m beginning to wonder: when I stagger back out into the sunlight in six months, blinking blearily against the glare, my beard-hair…

I can’t face the cesspool so will someone tell the Twitter loons: wise up – and chill out

13 January 2020 5:18 pm

As you can see from the above illustration, Scott Morison causes bushfires.   So egregious is the culpability of our arsonist–in–chief…

You’re concerned about my right to know? Look who’s talking

8 November 2019 2:53 pm

Was it really just last month that the mainstream media teamed up to advocate their own freedoms, covering their newspaper…