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Islam’s “barbaric fury”
Andrew Urban has lived up to his famous namesake, Pope Urban II (1088-1099), in his warnings that evil thrives when…
It’s just a jump to the left…
If it feels like you’re doing the Time Warp again, it’s because you are. Our nominally conservative parties have been…
AFL and the biased politics of sport
Politics thrives and prospers on power. Power seeps through winning over the masses. Where are the masses in Australia? Watching…
Same old inconvenient drivel
Al Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power, opens in Australia on August 10. What a pity.…
Game of Greens
“Woeful news my lord Richard, of Ser Scott of the Greenwald, well, it turns out he’s not one of us,…
Protection? What a load of bollards
“Melbourne’s concrete bollards could slide 30 metres in a crash, warn experts.” I wasn’t in the least surprised when I…
Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Marx’s detritus
Yassmin Abdel-Magied recently published a piece in The Guardian Australia lambasting her critics as being merely ‘afraid of a young…
Flogging a dead horse republic
Surely the Australian Republican Movement and Labor realise that they’re flogging a horse that was pronounced dead almost 20 years ago by the…
The Clementine-shaped difference between “speaking out” and hate
The one-woman woe wagon has arrived to deliver a request on this fine Friday. Clementine Ford would like our sympathy in return for all the love, tenderness, respect and heartfelt compassion…
Blind to gender – and the facts
What more evidence do we need that ‘the patriarchy’ is a myth, than the recent findings of the government’s very…
Vaping, Big Public Health and the new McCarthyism
One of the more emotive arguments thrown up against e-cigarettes and vaping is that multinational tobacco companies, including Philip Morris…
Building Indigenous competitive advantage
The ABC’s recent Alice Springs Q&A highlighted many key features of the Indigenous disadvantage debate — both positive and negative. While issues…
Has Yassmin Abdel-Magied missed the hatred spewing from the Left?
Sometimes I wonder if the Left are actually living, breathing and experiencing the same planet. In today’s Guardian Australia, someone…
Price of electricity is rising, not sure about temperatures
Because the masses believe that global atmospheric temperatures are rising unnaturally – the Hazelwood coal-fired power station was decommissioned, and…
Who’s a true conservative?
The Prime Minister’s potty, semantic quibbling in London has taken up with characteristic zeal by Peter Van Onselen. His column…
A car emissions tax: proof that the government have lost their spark
Tax: a politician’s addiction – always eager to take your money and never satisfied. Now, our politically correct federal government…
Vive le caliphate
Dystopian scenarios – scary, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it films and fiction – are on the rise. Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission is about what goes…
Why we’ll all pay for South Australia’s bank heist
The South Australia state parliament is in recess for a fortnight. It’s time for Premier Jay Weatherill and his bullish…
The crucial left/right divide
Forget all the recent talk about labels and who gets to wear the tag of ‘centrist’ or ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’…
No conservatives, thanks; we’re liberals
Last night I went to sleep on the right. I must have tossed and turned a lot because when I…
The renewables creation story
To recap: the nation’s embrace of renewables has caused widespread blackouts, businesses to close, the indigent to seek shelter in…
Won’t somebody please think of Menzies’ child?
I’m going to bury my lead here, but it’s for the good of the story. Earlier today Australian Taxpayers Association…
Turnbull’s just Dizzy
Well, Malcolm Turnbull did it on Monday in London. He took Tony Abbott’s bait and weighed into the moderate v…
How many of Malcolm’s centrists will be on the booths come polling day?
I’m no Crosby-Textor, but if Malcolm Turnbull was wondering what the recipe for electoral success is, it certainly isn’t telling…
The gloating season
This is Labor’s gloating season. The time when the latest Newspoll tells us the Coalition’s primary vote has slipped from…
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