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Biden: the merchant of hypocrisy
It seems to be a scientific law, like gravity, that whatever trespasses the US Democrats accuse the Republicans of, it…
Superwoke ChatGPT busted for bias
Hollywood has long speculated about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on the future of human civilisation. Increasingly, scientists…
Politics deep in the thrall of climate change
The issue of Climate Change stormed across our TV screens at the recent federal election. Funded by a renewables investor,…
The prostitutes of Davos
Once upon a time, Davos was a village in the Swiss Alps known for not much at all. Suddenly it…
Australia’s right to be intolerant of intolerance
Why is Australian democracy so overly, dangerously tolerant as to seem craven and weak, as it watches the ignorant aggro…
I’m offended: John Rich isn’t toning down dissent
Country music’s, John Rich has doubled down on dissent, criticising perpetual outrage in his latest ‘no’ to Woketopianism. Debuted on Twitter as…
Choosing your sport
What sport would you recommend your child play? If it’s football, most footballers have to retire by age 30, some…
Why does everyone hate Velma?
George Bernard Shaw once remarked that youth is wasted on the young. I have to disagree. Before discovering cigarettes, alcohol,…
One bright line between sanity and San Francisco
2022 will go down in history as the watershed year when the world’s figurehead of sane drug policy inadvertently surrendered…
Do Australian churches require buffer zones against protests?
Outside St. Mary’s Cathedral during Cardinal Pell’s funeral, a group of protesters heckled mourners with loud noise. The numbers vary;…
Breadlines and first world problems
There’s a deep irony behind Australia’s Woke warriors who spend their waking (and probably sleeping) hours obsessed with calling out…
A return to winner-takes-all custody battles
This week a television crew from the Japanese public broadcaster came to Sydney to interview family law specialist Justin Dowd,…
Breaking the silence: do vested interests stifle medical discussions?
Previously we examined the story behind UK Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra’s call to ‘stop the shots’. In this follow up piece…
Xi is not foolish enough to invade Taiwan (we hope)
Let’s be realistic … if counterintuitive. Despite the many illustrious commentators and foreign affairs specialists warning and worrying in the…
The Prime Minister is right – and very wrong
Recently, the Prime Minister of Australia has been heard regularly professing, ‘There is enough information about the Voice out there…
Carlos conquers Carrington
Nobody living today can remember two significant events that occurred in September 1859. These events were separated by a 24-hour…
The God delusion: men seeking womb transplants
Last week, I stumbled over the Daily Mail article titled: EXCLUSIVE: Womb transplants for TRANS women are ‘very likely in the near future’,…
Productivity: are Australians working too hard, or not hard enough?
Productivity is defined as a measure of the efficiency of production of goods and services, in simple terms the number…
The vegans will starve: it’s a bug-eat-bug world out there
Clicking on the link to a recent Reader’s Digest story about common foods that secretly contain insects was a mistake. I could…
‘No’ means no: the sensible case against the Voice
Anthony Albanese’s first act as Prime Minister was to replace two of the three Australian flags in the Parliament House…
Naked self-interest: Chalmers, Labor, and the unions
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ essay in The Monthly is an urgent, although not particularly eloquent, proof of the need for organisations like…
Warming the till: preachers of the apocalypse make billions
Political agenda dressed in the lab coat of science
Delilah is banned, what’s next?
Delilah is a 1967 chart-topper first sung by the Welsh dragon Sir Tom Jones. The song topped the charts in many…
Ardern escapes election judgment
On the morning of August 26, 2021, my wife and I arrived at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand, for our flight…
Messing with ‘the maths’
It looks like Queensland is about to join most other states in Australia and allow people to change their sex…
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