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Big Pharma: a petroleum-dependent industry under attack by climate warriors
There is a war brewing between the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids who demand free healthcare and the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids gluing…
Hero or Villain? The plot to cancel Captain Cook
Attempts are being made to cancel Samuel Griffith from his prominent role in Australian history, inevitably pushed by the university…
Novak Djokovic versus the Rule of Law
Earlier this week, our magazine weekly columnist, Ramesh Thakur, made an impassioned defence of tennis champion and unvaccinated Serb, Novak…
Climate scientists have lost their minds
Forget about rescuing the medical profession. Australia has a generation of chief health officers and doctors who can’t bring themselves…
Burning biomass fuels climate stupidity
Some of us have always known that climate hysteria causes malfunctions in the brain. (The precise medical term is ‘Subject…
Rugby Australia needs to chill out
Rugby Australia has threatened to ban a football fan for yelling abuse at England coach Eddie Jones on Sunday night.…
Politicians are not evolving as fast as Covid
It has been more than two years since China unleashed Covid onto the world, and with no end in sight,…
Knock-knock: offensive by nature
Recently, someone told me a knock-knock joke, and I deemed it offensive and insensitive. The subject matter was itself not…
Djokovic and the US Open: let him play
Novak Djokovic has won Wimbledon, the second major tennis tournament this year to be plagued by self-inflicted wounds following the…
Jeremy Clarkson torments Twitter by enjoying summer
I was up at a scary hour this morning when I stumbled across Jeremy Clarkson braising a few thousand Twitter…
Has Australia become an elective dictatorship?
The responses of the Australian government to the Covid pandemic had an overwhelming impact on the enjoyment of our basic…
Russia didn’t get the memo about pronouns
Russian officials are openly mocking America’s embrace of transgenderism – taunting America to ‘keep going’. The ridicule came after a…
Australia’s renewable energy superpower fantasy
One of Prime Minister Albanese’s favourite three-word slogans is ‘renewable energy superpower’. It comes from Ross Garnaut’s 2019 policy propaganda…
The world’s slowest apocalypse
If you believe the hype, this is the most dangerous time in history to be a human. There’s an apocalypse…
Biden: Divider-in-Chief
One of the media’s beloved titles for President Donald Trump was ‘Divider-in-Chief’. Well-deserved at times, the moniker was even used…
Australia’s Catholic Church: politics, paganism, and pandering
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions in the world, and it has long held to the values…
Australia in race to host COP 29 in 2024
It’s the prize no sane country wants to win, but Labor – egged on by the Pacific Islands – is…
What do we really know about the IPCC?
Having concluded the latest Climate Change talk-fest – the United Nations COP26 in 2021 in Glasgow – the confected outburst…
Victorian Liberals: left of Labor?
Since when does a centre-right political party win office by proposing policies even further to the left than its centre-left…
Speaking on Cancel Culture at Friedman
Last weekend, Sydney played host to the Friedman conference where politicians, centre-right activists, and writers – including many Speccie contributors –…
Hollywoke hypocrites: Chinese & Muslim critics of Disney’s ‘Lightyear’ told their beliefs are ‘backward’
Socio-political critics of Pixar’s progressive flop, Lightyear have been mocked as 14 countries banned the ‘kids animated film’ for its…
China rising: do we need a Defence Levy?
[ This is part 3 of a series. Read part 1 and part 2 ] The truth lurking under the political spin is that…
Gender quotas bite Labor hard
It is going to be extremely difficult to write this while maintaining an air of sympathy – so bear with…
Climate Change, the art of sophistry
Sophistry is the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. Climate alarmists who know the…
The Queen is Australia’s Head of State - don’t deny it
History tells us that new wars are lost because generals re-fight the last one. The looming battle to keep Australia’s…
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