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The things you can learn at university these days

1 June 2019 1:13 pm

From The Conservation, that university funded website for academics who would really rather be breakfast TV hosts, a cracker: Having…

Unlike the big boys the Spectator Australia called it way before

20 May 2019 12:27 am

About that Labor landslide… Remember how the Berejiklian government would just hang on or be swept away in a tidal…

Yassmin: democracy is always a risk for those of us who know better

19 May 2019 3:22 pm

You don’t really think a night like last night would have gone by without a pithy and pertinent observation from…

It’s the coal wot won it

19 May 2019 3:52 am

That and other post-election news and analysis appearing in your Flat White from later Sunday. Got something to add? Join…

Do it for Bob

17 May 2019 9:08 am

The hashtag bobbed up as the news spread last night: #DoItForBob. Yes. Let’s. Spectator types in particular. Let’s have a…

What’s woke this week?

10 May 2019 4:37 pm

What’s woke this week? Actually, we’re cheating a little with what’s woke the week after next — and the week…

We can’t get a Greta, but bring on Bella…

2 May 2019 1:37 pm

Gaia be praised! Greta Thunberg was otherwise occupied, but Richard Di Natale’s got himself his very own election klimate katastrophist…

Dr Dick and his Smokin’ Tokens

30 April 2019 11:07 am

Someomes it’s best just to let the original speak for itself: (Of course, it would be even more egalitarian if…

How the Greens don’t get capitalism yet star at self interest

27 April 2019 2:06 pm

The Greens, it would be fair to say, don’t understand captialism. Equally, it would be approprate to say that advertising…

Patronising the arts

24 April 2019 1:30 pm

The first of an occasional series by the Flat White team. “The Massachusetts of the south.” That’s how John Howard once…

Who can feel an election coming on, Flat White contributors?

11 April 2019 7:26 am

Well, we’re on. That means we want contributions. Pithy, punchy, provocative pieces on Australian politics and the campaign. All you…

Now we know how the SMH and Age will define “mainstream” in the election

6 April 2019 2:41 pm

Boy. Boy oh boy oh boy. Channel Nine’s left wing tabloids have really jumped the shark. “Reparations for black Americans:…

Numptynomics

3 April 2019 8:02 am

Looks like a slightly startling Sloane Ranger mummy (or Simon Le Bon) from 1981, sounds like a student trot mixed…

A campaign launch disguised as a budget

2 April 2019 8:56 pm

It’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before. In other words, it’s business as usual in Australian politics – business as…

A Liberal man of letters: Peter Coleman, 1928-2019

1 April 2019 10:08 am

Journalist, parliamentarian, editor, author and Spectator Australia columnist Peter Coleman has died in Sydney at the age of 90. He…

NSW: a reality check

24 March 2019 8:37 am

Congratulations to Gladys and the hair gel lads for their result yesterday. And for Scot, here’s a history lesson. On…

It’s all wishful thinking, but boy does it drive clicks

17 March 2019 6:33 pm

Independent. Always. Ah, yes. That pledge below the mastheads of Nine Entertainment’s left-wing tabloids to give you the sort of…

Turnbull’s coup delusion – they weren’t afraid that I would lose, but I would win

7 March 2019 11:17 pm

Forget about Julie Bishop and her “I could have won the election” lines from Sunday. In an infinitely more damaging…

Labor’s woman problem

21 January 2019 12:00 pm

Their ABC and Nine’s dead tree division (and dying limbs), The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, have done their…

Flat White: a statement

3 December 2018 5:24 pm

Last week the Flat White website published a letter from a reader with an accompanying illustration. The post was removed immediately…

Satan: an apology

17 October 2018 8:01 pm

We’ve been asked to pull a post out of respect for the privacy of “a non-theistic Satanist that participates in…

The Spec Oz has been Zucked by Facebook

22 May 2018 8:42 am

If you’re wondering where we are on Facebook today, we’ve been told to get Zucked. We used a cropped version…