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Brazil first to fall in the free speech wars
Elon Musk has announced that X (formally Twitter) has decided to close its office in Brazil to protect the safety…
Did the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra reinvent the art of crisis apology?
When any organisation makes a sharp U-turn on a corporate policy or pronouncement – often with a ‘We’re sorry for…
The Church of England and the neo-Marxist war on language
News that the Church of England has ditched the ‘church’ bit for the sake of appearing more ‘modern’ is both…
Mount Warning: the NSW government’s great divide
Ladies and gentlemen, gather ‘round for a backstory that’s more convoluted than an Australian Olympic breakdancer. Mount Warning, a place…
Contrasting attitudes to logging ancient trees in the UK and Australia
Last September, the British people woke to a crime that seemed to echo across the United Kingdom. The Sycamore Gap…
The tech giant and the president: an affair of common sense
Donald Trump’s conversation with tech billionaire and besieged free speech warrior Elon Musk was full of surprises. While debates between…
Religion is back in politics
As the Israel/Palestine conflict expands, we may ask, is the stage set for a worldwide intifada? Intifada is shouted on…
At the mercy of public health
My father had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. A plan was formed with his local doctor. I was supplied…
The epidemic of male suicide in Australia
Over 1 million Australian children are living without their fathers. The legislation underpinning both the family court system and the…
Kamala, the ‘Yas, queen!’ of energy subsidies
In the US, the Clean Investment Monitor has estimated the effects in investment of the Biden government’s Inflation Reduction Act…
‘Breaking’ news: our constitutional monarchy wins gold!
Australia’s constitutional monarchy is one of the most modern forms of liberal democracy. And despite all the embarrassment from a…
The future under President Kamala Harris – a dystopia policed by woke puritans
It’s a nonsensical cliché, propagated for decades by people who don’t understand history, that the next election is always the…
Israel is fighting a war for the survival of the West
The Americans, the Europeans, Penny Wong, and everyone else is outraged. Again. Those pesky – sorry – genocidal Jews have…
Did the conservatives lose on purpose?
The right have to rekindle their political soul without losing their minds
The West stands at a crossroads
July marked the 110th Anniversary of the start of the first world war, although few noticed it. The West is…
Wind energy enters its mid-life crisis
When I first heard that China was installing a two-headed wind turbine, I thought the Babylon Bee was having a…
Elon Musk is right, freedom of speech in the UK is under attack
Elon Musk has captured headlines in the UK this week by taking our Prime Minister to task over his crackdown…
It’s the simple things that kill you or save you
In 2016, when my car broke down about 40kms across the southern Mali border, I asked my supply guy and…
Calamity
ASIO has lifted our national terrorism threat level to ‘probable’ meaning a greater than 50 per cent chance of an…
The failure of the Islamic Human Rights Commission at a time of national division
The heinous crime extinguishing the lives of three young British girls in a dance class in Southport reverberated across the…
My Guinness experience
Eat your heart out Chelsea Hotel. Some years ago, Berlusconi’s Guinness TV flew me to stay in an Italian hotel…
Not just the RBA, Chalmers at odds with the ABS
My guess is that Treasurer Jim Chalmers is wondering if he’s kicked an own goal by pushing through structural changes…
Next time, the French Wokerati should fight their own wars
The mainstream media is shoving the Paris Olympics down our throats. But like many other Australians, I want nothing to…
The sun is in control of our oceans
In recent years, there has been observed an increase in ocean temperature. Those who adhere to the Climate Change version…
The UK is on fire. Australia could be next
The United Kingdom is on fire with riots breaking out across the country, and it brings me no joy to…
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