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Ephialtes of Wentworth
When Ephialtes of Trachus betrayed the Spartans at Thermopylae (you remember the grotesque hunchback from The 300) his mind doubtless…
Pandering to the Wentworthies
Contrary to reports, Wentworth has not been a blue ribbon Liberal seat since the 1980s. And the seat is so…
Getting away with murder, twice
The election of a so-called Independent and LGBTIQ activist as the temporary Member for Wentworth is not so much the…
Hit the pope where it hurts
Of all the rich, out-of-touch, globalist left-wing institutions, the Catholic Church is the most corrupt and depraved. Its primary sickness…
It’s alt-right to be white
‘War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.’ So ran the newspeak of George Orwell’s dystopia, 1984. To these…
The unsuspecting origins of today’s liberty-loving youth
Last summer, the Oxford Dictionary declared its Word Of The Year for 2017: ‘youthquake’, defined as ‘a significant cultural, political,…
Boot Brisbane, kick Canberra
‘I am delighted to be speaking in Cairns, capital of the new State of North Queensland,’ I told the new…
Grievance studies gone to the dogs
If it wasn’t so serious the recent example of peer-reviewed journals being duped would be laughable. Confirming Orwell’s observation that…
The Facebook page of Dorian Gray
Technology is disruptive. It destroys and creates. It also defines us as human beings. No technology, though, even television, has…
Free speech exclusion zone
The recent new abortion clinic exclusion zone laws in NSW specify that it is illegal to obstruct and harass people…
Business/Robbery etc
Whatever the outcome of Saturday’s green-tainted global-warming-fixated Wentworth by-election, it won’t knock King Coal off his economy-boosting throne. And there…
Media mafia and mob rule
Most right-thinking people, of all political persuasions and of none, will have breathed a sigh of relief when they heard…
Lunch with Leo and Sir Francis
I was having a chat with renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and brilliant British empiricist and champion of the scientific…
The job of universities
Amelia is an academic at an Australian university. She reached out to me earlier this year after seeing my work…
Encouraging assimilation
The bedrock of a successful society is formed by common language, common values, and common goals. When societies lose sight…
Change everything? You bet
Naomi Klein from Canada oversees courses for tens of thousands of Australian high school students. She’s an anarcho-environmentalist mobilising grass-roots…
The Left vs Reasonable Doubt
At the risk of propelling readers to throw down this wonderful magazine in despair and shift to watching the latest…
Sharma shafts Shorten
Australia will soon face what is arguably one of the most important elections in its history, with Wentworth a crucial…
Fish or bear’s paw?
Last century, when Mao ruled China, shop assistants repeated daily, ‘We don’t have any more’ (Meiyou). I heard the phrase…
Reds on the red carpet
For the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who watched Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969, there are…
Castration of the male?
Expect the US Supreme Court, still captured by political activists, to downgrade men’s rights within the decade, with honorary ‘feminist’…
Troubled land
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.– Rudyard Kipling, ‘Letters from the East’,…
The Left’s libricide
Recently, Erik Jensen, founding editor of the Saturday Paper and convener of the Horne Prize for essays, had been so…
New prophets of doom
Picture a scene. A cowed audience is gathered to listen to a wise man. He tells them that he has…
Business/Robbery etc
You won’t find it in the headlines about the Hayne Royal Commission’s 1,000-page interim report that slammed the greed, ‘profit…