Flat White
The Lord of the Woke
James Ronald Ruel Tolkien was an English academic with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon languages and legends and philology. He…
Political cowardice has a price
The cowardice of our political overlords has a price, and usually that price is not paid by these decision-makers but…
Julia, you should have gone to the police, not the ABC
Another day, another anti-Morrison whinger decides to jump aboard the bandwagon to sit alongside miserable ghost Malcolm Turnbull and his…
Back to ‘Big Australia’? Not so fast
If there were a hint of a silver lining in the Covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, it may be…
Truth on social media? Geoffrey Robertson is keen
Truth on social media? It’s a wonderful idea, one espoused by high profile human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on Sky…
Banks’ blunder
One-term MP Julia Banks has written a book based on what she broadly terms the horrors of working in Parliament…
A Reader’s Digest manifesto for our new woke military?
ITEM: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Saturday, July 3 2021: The Australian Defence Force has turned to some of the world’s…
NAIDOC Woke
It’s NAIDOC Week. Aboriginal elites, corporate virtue-signallers and politicians, cheered on by the media but especially the ABC and SBS, will…
A friendly reminder: Anthony Albanese is completely bloody useless
After last Monday night’s AstraZeneca slip of the tongue announcement, Scott Morrison simply vanished for three days until National Cabinet…
REVEALED: National Cabinet’s plans for vaccine segregation
Australia has become the laughing-stock of the world. While other nations open up, winding back restrictions, allowing their citizens to…
God is non-binary. Apparently…
You will be interested to know that the Reverend Canon Sarah Jones, the Church of England’s first ever ‘transwoman’ priest, has made…
The CCP: the most blood-soaked criminal organisation of the last century
Life expectancy in China is now close to 77 years so, at 100, the demise of the Chinese Communist Party…
How Berejiklian’s bureaucrats attempted to break their own Covid-19 regulations
This weekend across New South Wales—in both city and regional areas—all churches are prohibited from livestreaming any singing during their…
The Peter Ridd case: am I missing something?
Yesterday’s piece by Graham Young on the Peter Ridd High Court case got me thinking. Not about Young’s thesis that…
Do we have a constitutional right to free speech?
“Freedom of speech may not be protected by Australia’s constitution, high court judge says,” screamed a recent headline in The…
Find the CO2
Man-made carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is responsible for catastrophic climate change, according to climate alarmists. We must stop…
They don’t have safe spaces in North Korea
If you still have a copy of the important 1976 volume by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A Warning to the West, it will be worth…
Don’t moralise about sex work
There are a lot of myths surrounding prostitution. Chief among them is the claim that sex workers are virtual slaves,…
What do the ABC and the Chinese Communist Party have in common?
With all the attention being paid to the Chinese Communist Party’s birthday, we thought it only fair that our beloved…
The Peter Ridd case is too important to be left to the courts
A lot rides on the case of Ridd v JCU, which was heard last Wednesday, June 23, 2021, in the High…
The woke patriarchy
The hyperbole of progressive feminism has provided a lot of fodder for conservative commentators. Just the mention of the “patriarchy”…
Laurel Hubbard is just a symptom of new chilling attacks on free speech in New Zealand
Individuals seem born with a basic sense of fair play, and perceiving hard-working, well-deserving or brave individuals treated unjustly inevitably rankles. So condemnation of the New Zealand Olympic…
A turning point on cancel culture?
“There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no…
Forget the virus. We should be panicked by lost productivity
The very definition of harmful advice is found in the Treasury’s five yearly Intergenerational Report, the latest edition of which…
What did a poobah of public health just say?
Excuse me? Excuse me? What did Queensland’s poobah of public health (and governor to be) Jeannette Young say today? Really…
