Café Culture
My pronouns are Bah/Humbug
This week I went to see Charles Dicken’s 1843 A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic theatre in London and…
The Prime Minister’s Propaganda Awards
For those keeping up with Australia’s literary scene, you might be interested to know that the winners of the Prime…
Trepidatious Travel
Intrepid Travel is a UK-based company which offers a mind-boggling array of small group tours around the globe. From mountain…
One queer story at a time
These days, no self-respecting writers festival is complete without four woke essentials; an LGBQTI+ session, a climate change group therapy…
The mayors’ road to serfdom
If you have plans about the kind of life you’d like to be living in 2030, think again. A cabal…
Happy SEXtember!
From 18-29 September, the University of New South Wales is holding its annual SEXtember festival, which is billed as ‘celebrating…
Flogging a dead horse
It is an interesting, if not depressing exercise to look at what the notoriously woke Victorian Association for the Teaching…
Child soldiers in the culture war
As we move closer and closer to the referendum, stories are emerging from our schools that should make any parent…
Queering your schooldays
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia’s most elite training centre for the woke, has outdone…
Wear it Purple Day
For those who are keeping track of the woke liturgical calendar, today is ‘Wear it Purple Day.’ It is an…
Politics and power at the Canberra Writers Festival
This past weekend produced a veritable smorgasbord of political conferences to cater for all tastes. We had the 48th Labor…
Saying No to elite politicking
This blurring of lines between the sporting arena and the political arena has to stop, especially when it comes to…
Social Justice Scouts
Parents in the UK are up in arms because the Scouts have been caught hiring seven new Diversity & Inclusion…
Referendum ready ‘yes’ voters
This week, the NSW Department of Education released a new draft History syllabus for Years 7-8 and I’m afraid there’s…
Unwelcome to Skybus
The least a passenger can expect from boarding a bus is that the bus company knows where you are departing…
Beating butter to death
Footage of an ‘artist’ kneeling on the ground whilst beating a slab of butter to death with a power cord…
Misandrist Barbie
I must take my hat off to the marketing team at Warner Bros. who managed to fool us into thinking…
The Dispirit of Australia
In the schmalzy Qantas jingle ‘I Still Call Australia Home’, composer Peter Allen says he’s been to cities that never…
Rebellious Lawyering
One of the few silver linings to the cloud that is the Voice is that it has brought the public’s…
A Warning from Mt Warning
Last October, Mt Warning was closed permanently to everyone except Aboriginal people by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment’s…
Mourning and Rage in Heidelberg West
As one exclusionary flag is reverently lowered in Melbourne’s Banyule City Council to mark the end of Pride month, a…
‘Healthy’ Pornography for Kiddies
One of the many disturbing features of our modern secular world is the realization that there is an active cohort…
Vehicles for Propaganda
In the unrelenting propaganda campaign which is being waged on the increasingly fatigued populace by those who wish to divide…
Cambridge College goes for Woke
There are some wokefications in this world of ours that are a little more disheartening than others. One of those…
Bread, Circuses and Moon Worshipping
Just as the Roman Emperors knew to give the proles bread and circuses, so too does Victoria’s very own dictator…
