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Biden’s humiliating Middle East excursion
Anyone anticipating significant progress or even directional clarity arising from the 13-16 July visit by US President Joe Biden and…
Forced public affirmation is not ‘inclusion’
‘It’ll be an inclusion game,’ they said. ‘It’ll celebrate diversity,’ they promised. And so it was. Except that the Manly…
Has the BBC’s diversity push led to racism?
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the public-funded national broadcaster of the UK, has been wandering into territory many wouldn’t hesitate…
Netherlands: the summer of discontent
The Netherlands has descended into an ideological war zone between city-bound bureaucrats trying to polish their climate credentials on the…
Let the games (and the business) begin!
Today, over 5,000 competitors from nations as far afield as Malaysia to Jamaica converge on Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games.…
Australia: apathetic or activist?
A commonly-held view is that we are living through diabolically fractious times. Indeed, even a cursory reflection on the recent…
Trudeau’s fertiliser ‘ban’ threatens to create a food crisis
Is the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, an idiot? Ordinarily I’d be more respectful of an elected leader, but…
Can conservatives embrace the arts?
Conservative political thought’s fractured history and philosophical developments should make for compelling artworks and literature. However, the Right is often…
The tyranny of minority activism
Yesterday, federal parliament opened to the now-usual Welcome to Country by Aboriginal elders, followed by the chanting and dancing of…
The World Economic Forum: heroes or villains?
In movies and television shows, we are often exposed to the story of good vs. evil. Typically the plot involves…
Volcanoes, oceans, and weather
Despite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle, or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar…
Government is not the divine source of ‘truth’
‘Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth,’ declared New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in a…
Qantas: a disappointing answer to customer care
On 5 July, reacting a news report that Qantas intended to maintain its ban on unvaccinated people for all international…
Moira Deeming: a damning case of radical common sense
If you want to understand how far left the Australian mainstream media has gone, consider this article in The Age…
Five is too young for radical gender theory
The Sydney parent of a 5-year-old child attending Roseville Kids Care complaining about his child being indoctrinated with radical LGBTQ+…
Liberals: stop chasing the Left into the abyss
There is an old saying that my supervising partner said to me when, in a previous life, I was employed…
How dare you assume the gender of ancient skeletons!
Anarchist archaeologists re-write history in the name of gender politics.
WorkSafe takes a second bite of the cherry
WorkSafe announced it filed charges against the body corporate of St. Basil’s Age Care, over alleged breaches to the Occupational…
Danistan: extending or exiling an era
An era is about to continue or end in Victoria. I preference the latter. Victorians are a measured lot and…
Bill Shorten is right about mothers
If Australian government records are to be believed, 55 men gave birth to babies in 2014-15. Those are the official…
Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most
Human advancement has rested on harnessing increasingly dense sources of energy from non-human origins. Animal power, burning wood, wind technology,…
Inequality resides at the heart of the sexual revolution
The thesis of the sexual revolution was a fantasy. We need to return to reality.
WHO declares Monkeypox a public health emergency
The last we heard of the official advice for Monkeypox was – uh – to avoid casual group sex with…
Non-birthing parent Adam Bandt angers mothers
Sperm-donor and non-birthing parent Adam Bandt – who problematically refers to himself as ‘dad of two’ in his social media…
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