Many have questioned the validity of censoring viewer consumption of particular movie and television titles.  My humble opinion is that…

In 1348, the Black Death killed between 30 to 50% of the entire population of Britain. In one of the…

You read it here first… Whatever you can say about Canberra’s shinybums, they have their ears to the ground. It’s…

It appears as though the political correctness tidal wave that is sweeping the Western world, has claim yet another victim, and this…

Amid a world that seems hell-bent on tearing down statues in a cathartic frenzy, it is worth sparing a moment…

One of the most poignant and best know memorial to the Holocaust is a sculpture in Budapest, Hungary, entitled Shoes…

Many are saying the events of the past fortnight – with marches against racism being held around the world –…

When a man with a sign “Black, white — all lives matter” is booed and physically attacked by an angry…

On Tuesday, it was announced the(ir) ABC expects to cut around 250 staff. Of course, sadly, that will mean more…

The political divide remains as strong as ever but the points of difference between left and right have changed. Where…

The news that one of journalism’s most despised characters – Andrew “Jocky” Jaspan, (aka “the poisoned dwarf”) – had been “honoured…

I hate mobs so I feel guilty criticising Clementine Ford. It’s hard, though, to feel sympathy for her. She’s a…

Don’t just jot it in your diary. Mark it in the annals of history; the day the ABC once and…

Y’all remember back in the good old days when the Prime Minister said the government wasn’t going to pick winners.…

As the Black Lives Matter mantra sweeps the world, there is a view held by some that there is no…

To date, 103 people have died of coronavirus in Australia, none of them under the age of 40, and only…

 I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a…

* And so, most likely, are you** ** According to the new nomenclature. I was born in another time and…

If you’ve been trying to ignore the culture wars, or thought you were above them, hopefully, recent violent events on…

It is not often that an identified Public Enemy Number One actually becomes a Superhero.  And it took a pandemic…

‘This is the excellent foppery of the world…’  — Edmund in King Lear (Act 1, Scene 2), Shakespeare.  In an…

We can’t blame our leaders for being caught off-guard by the coronavirus; we all were. We can, however, hold our…

You read it first on The Spectator Australia on March 23, 2020. I outlined all the viruses over the past…

Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch on September 9, 2015, when she surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother…

“Off the pigs!” OK, I confess: back in my wild youth, this was an oft-heard phrase rolling off my lips.…