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Opposition to e-cigs is running out of puff
In 2003 Hon Lik, a Beijing pharmacist, developed an electronic cigarette which attracted interest from industry. Decades before, Hon Lik…
Time to rise again
I bought a different brand of diary for this year, and it has dropped Easter. Easter Day is plain Sunday…
Telford and the Left
The sleepy town of Telford, England, is home to the latest bout of grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation. On…
Save the last dance for Li
As a child growing up in rural China during the punishing years of the Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin felt like…
Aux bien pensants
Mug the frugal, turnbull teaches shorten The standing of politicians has never been lower. They’re widely regarded as self-interested, incompetent,…
Aussie tax slayer
According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website, Australia will contribute $43.8 million to the ‘Palestinian Territories’ in…
Browned off at the ballot box
Popular concerns over immigration, ignored by politicians across the Western world, will at best be expressed at the ballot box,…
Coal’s here to stay
There is a modern misconception that a modern economy will become less reliant on energy. A word association test on…
Little Rocket Man and the Obama of Asia
Suddenly Kim Jong-un is a good guy. He sends his sister to the Pyeongchang Olympics to work her icy charms…
The new great Australian silence
In Down Among The Wild Men, the anthropologist, John Greenway, describes the process by which Aboriginal adolescents from the Western…
The perils of surrendering sovereignty
Britain’s period of surrendering key responsibilities to the European Union is drawing to a close, but the experience serves as…
A new Marshall Plan, please
A Marshall Plan is needed for war-torn South Australia devastated by decades of green warfare and lawfare, welfare, destruction of…
Lesson One: don’t get caught
The dismissal of the FBI’s second-in-charge, Andrew McCabe, was not by President Trump, as several Australian outlets who bothered to…
Love is love, boys
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again flagged his intention to deliver a national apology to the victims of institutional child…
Stuck down a one-way street
Australia is not a racist country. Compared with much of the world, Australia is a paragon of virtue when it…
Trump, the revolutionary
It’s no easy job keeping up with the 45th presidency. Events occur in a perpetual whirlwind. Presently, the shock of…
The fight Conservatives must have
Hands up if you read Paul Kelly in last Saturday’s Australian? He was writing on the state of conservatism in…
To drain the swamp, first pull the plug
It is a striking fact, but little acknowledged, that the Left in this country is largely funded by the taxpayer.…
Three billboards outside Canberra, ACT
Back in 2009, when Malcolm Turnbull lost the federal Liberal leadership, the feisty Bronwyn Bishop said that the members had…
Best practice democracy?
People protesting against both the concept and practice of authoritarian government has now become a worldwide phenomenon. It seems high…
Business/Robbery etc
Bed-wetters are on the move; the federal parliamentary Liberal party’s problem is now a liquid liability in Collins and O’Connell…
Data gold-mining
You’re probably not aware of it, but there is an injustice being perpetrated on every man, woman and child who…
Comfortably dumb
Sanitising a hate-filled political campaign like the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign is difficult. It obviously has repugnant historical parallels…
The Unitary Republic
Should Australia become a republic, it will greatly damage, and possibly destroy, the independence of the States, making nation-wide experiments…
It’s time to begin a Conservative ‘long march’
Conservative thought must be in a bad way indeed when Speccie contributor James Allan advocates that Australian Conservatives must help…
