Vanessa de Largie

Sick, sad and confused

25 February 2020 7:25 pm

I feel tormented this week. I want to drink. I want to suck dick.  I want to self-destruct. I’m fighting an…

Stuff woke. Be practical

10 January 2020 5:00 am

There has been enough social commentary on our bushfire crisis and climate change to fill Lake Eyre, so I’ll refrain…

When journos join the thought police, God help us

3 December 2019 12:04 pm

Is 2019 the death of satire?  Because it’s most definitely the death of comedy.  A comedian’s role used to be…

Clem goes gooey over dead white male

1 December 2019 6:06 pm

Just when I think Clementine Ford couldn’t get any more hypocritical she has managed to outdo any previous effort. At…

Leunig and the loon brigade

31 October 2019 5:01 pm

The ‘martyr mother’ archetype sums up motherhood in 2019 succinctly. The outrage over Michael Leunig’s illustration ‘Phoney Love’ is proof…

This is bullying with help from a professional media manipulator, not news

22 October 2019 1:00 pm

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “compassion is the basis of morality.” Perhaps the Australian blue-tick warriors could learn something from…

A metaphor by any other name…

13 October 2019 5:03 pm

When did metaphors become offensive?  Seriously? American billionaire and investment analyst, Ken Fisher is in deep shit for remarks he…

Pornography: neither a culprit nor a cop-out

9 September 2019 5:00 am

Jaymes Todd, the Melbourne man given a life sentence last week for the cowardly rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon…

Sex and the Sydney stabbing: preach PC, print prurience

20 August 2019 3:59 pm

The good-girl-gone-bad narrative peddled by the Australian media following the stabbing murder of Sydney sex-worker Michaela Dunn last week —…

Nightmare feminism

16 August 2019 6:35 pm

#MeToo is like a malignant cancer that multiplies and spreads. It attacks the white blood cells. It attacks the immune…

Abortions are hell, but a woman’s choice to make

31 July 2019 12:44 pm

I’m sick of religious men carrying the torch for anti-abortion. Every woman in the world is entitled to have bodily…

I’ve got them Barnaby blues… not!

30 July 2019 6:57 pm

My house is flooded. The bathroom. The bedroom. The office. The laundry. Flooded with my tears for poverty-stricken Barnaby Joyce.…

L L BoJo

27 July 2019 5:05 pm

The fact that Boris Johnson is a seriously flawed scallywag is part of his charm. Like the rugged womanisers of…

Is there a Trump smear the left won’t stoop to?

21 July 2019 7:25 pm

Last week, the Channel Nine tabloids ran a column: Trump and Epstein partied and commented on women in 1992 video.…

Forget when Belle Gibson will get jail. When will her victims get justice?

17 July 2019 8:29 pm

When the Belle Gibson trial hit the news again recently all I was able to do was ‘watch on’ as…

Is Black Widow leading a fightback against wokeness in the arts?

16 July 2019 12:22 pm

Scarlett Johansson is in deep-shit again for raging against identity politics.  In 2018, Johansson abandoned her starring role as a…

Wh-t the f-ck is going on with c-nsorship for sn-wflakes?

8 July 2019 2:16 pm

I’m not a fan of censored swear words in writing, particularly in books and columns.  If you’re unable to swear with…

Who says a woman can’t win with a sugar daddy arrangement?

2 July 2019 1:27 pm

Recently, 60 minutes, aired a segment titled: The Secret World of Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies.  As one would expect…

It’s a strange, lonely world when you’re anti-euthanasia from experience

30 June 2019 2:31 pm

Being anti-euthanasia is most similar to being an outcast kid.  Not only is one mocked, shamed and personally attacked.  One…

Bring on the Barty party

9 June 2019 10:58 am

It’s 1.51 am Melbourne time and Ashleigh Barty has just made history — winning the French Open and bringing home…

The Melbourne accused: tragic, but not the Australian everyman

29 May 2019 12:36 pm

The four men charged with the four alleged murders of women that have rocked Melbourne in recent months share some…

Let me feel your pain (so I can claim it as mine)

21 May 2019 1:44 pm

Since Scott Morrison’s election victory on Saturday night, TV personality Lisa Wilkinson, has penned a virtue-signalling column for 10Daily, titled…

Handsome is as handsome does, Handsome Her

29 April 2019 1:05 pm

Last year, Handsome Her (a misandrist vegan cafe based in Melbourne) hosted an event titled: Can You Be A Feminist…

Why can’t Australian politics produce a Cicciolina?

9 April 2019 7:51 am

The lead-up to the election? A third-rate circus. I mean, what would Italian politician and porn star Ilona Staller (aka…

Would you leave your children with Clementine Ford?

31 March 2019 4:43 pm

Lock up your sons and daughters! Allen & Unwin have just announced they are ‘thrilled’ to be publishing a junior…