Having snapped at Nationals leader Michael McCormack’s heels for the best part of two years, forcibly deposed leader Barnaby Joyce…

William Jennings Bryan? Never heard of him? Take a look at Wikipedia:  William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July…

Scholars of the classics will remember that quote from This Is Spın̈al Tap: “It’s such a fine line between stupid…

Ironic. Coronavirus is known as coronavirus because of the “coronas”, the crown shapes on its cells. The measures taken against…

Australia’s educational performance has been in decline since the 1970s, but this is no accident. It is by design, curriculum…

For decades, Australian men have been caricatured as foolish idiots in advertising.  Men are presented as stupid, useless or otherwise…

Seemingly infected by Thunbergism, the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, set to run from July 6 – 17, has re-imagined itself…

John Locke, seen by many as the father of our Western Liberal culture, once said “the end of law is…

I’m not saying Johnny Rotten is a prophet, but he kind of is.  The manic-eyed lead singer of the Sex…

Well, Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe certainly threw the Tasmanian devil among the scrub turkeys supporting Bruce Pascoe, with the…

In a week where various state premiers are competing to steal your takeaway coffee cups in a ‘war against plastic’,…

Australia’s ability to produce unlimited electricity has almost been lost thanks to myopic politicians captured by climate zeitgeist. Our nation’s…

The Fair Work Commission yesterday announced plans to increase Australia’s national minimum wage by 2.5% on July 1 of this…

Melbourne University has warned staff teaching a course on feminism they must not say anything that could cause harm to…

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There is something profoundly disturbing and morally challenging in the way many view the Israel-Palestine conflict. The chant “from the river to the…

On Monday, I wrote in these august pages about the lack of economic reform in Australia being a function of both poor quality…

It seems that the Victorian Labor government has become fed up with having to operate in a parliamentary democracy.  The Age reports…

When is Four Corners coming for Alfred Deakin? He’s been dead for 102 years so can’t sue, surely an advantage…

Aspirations of the “have nots” or “have too littles” have, through their elected representatives brought an inexorable growth in the…

The G7 conference has become an excuse for politicians to engage in an arms race of climate policies designed to…

After talk of an early election began in earnest in late January, polling suggested a majority of Australians were opposed…

Last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced Australia’s second death likely caused by blood clotting from the AstraZeneca vaccine. This took the total reports of cases of…

One of the best emails I get in my inbox (after Spectator’s Morning Shot, of course) is the Fourth Watch Newsletter…