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Love is not love if you don’t toe the rainbow-coloured line
Love is not love, obviously, when a small activist minority of gay bullies intimidate a husband and wife publishing team…
Escaping the academic inquisition
That we have ever come – or, rather, come back – to this point again is the sad indictment of…
The week in misandry
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. White Ribbon…
What makes the Mullahs mad (let alone so many of their flock)?
It seems that Islam is causing massive waves of mental illness around the world. If we collate the responses to…
Forget the poleys, save the Inuit
No matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, the big white bastards simply aren’t starving and drowning fast enough:…
Why do some Muslim leaders worry more about semantics than terror?
Muslim community leaders could learn a thing or two from the Prime Minister’s press conference held after the Bourke Street…
EXCLUSIVE: Did we just kowtow to terror? After last week?
The Australian Government has refused to offer immediate asylum to Asia Bibi, the Christian woman falsely accused of blasphemy in…
Fcuk orf
I want to be upfront with this. There will be no beating around the bush. I want to see the…
Amazing vape, how sweet the smoke…
Mother Teresa once famously said “I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I…
Don’t mention the jihad?
It seems a lot of people are pretty unhappy that Scott Morrison has dared to speak of “the radical and dangerous ideology…
The sliming of Roger Scruton
If you’re a conservative, there’s no doubt that you’ve heard about Roger Scruton or come across his works. Scruton is…
Dismembering diplomacy’s fourth wall
Strange things happen at international embassies all the time. In 1984 a female British police officer was shot from the…
Bye-bye White Ribbon?
Word is White Ribbon is in trouble. The Australian reports it’s in a “parlous” financial state. The annual report is…
Transgender: the great transgression
Let’s face it, being transgender is the new black. Simply being homosexual is so last year. So much so, in…
The Mark & Malcolm show
Harold Macmillan, British Tory prime minister, asked by a journalist what had caused the downfall of his government reputedly responded,…
Deport the terrorists – and their families too
If our existing laws can not protect us from harm, we must make new ones that can. Terrorists, even those…
Terror and our hopeless optimism
The ninth of November will live on in the history of Melbourne as yet another tainted date, a day that…
Clementine Ford is a big fat hypocrite
The face of hypocrisy in Australia is Clementine Ford. Ford will put forward an argument, then contradict herself through her…
Anne Aly: expert in political opportunism
It is now well known how Labor MP Anne Aly has been highly critical of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response…
EXCLUSIVE: The bureaucrats desecrating our diggers’ graves
Today, we mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the signing of the armistice which brought an end to the First World…
The word you’ve been looking for? Objectivism
There’s something darkly appealing about the whole spectacle of contemporary politics. The distinct magnetism of the performative theatrics, the moral…
The week in misandry
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. A woman…
Victoria votes: short termism rules, OK?
Now a fortnight in, and the Victorian election campaign was all but cancelled for lack of interest this week. The…
What’s so bad about negative gearing?
As Scott Morrison tours the Queensland coastline, his mind is most probably wandering across a range of policies that he…
Kristallnacht in Canberra
Peter Witting of Yarralumla, Canberra, 10 years old in 1938, remembered leading his nine-year-old sister to school, past destroyed shops…
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