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The manosphere vs the ABC
The ‘manosphere’, as popularised by US conservative podcasters, has made masculinity cool again – and Donald Trump’s election victory legitimised…
Queensland Parliament sets worrying precedent
A most authoritarian gesture
Guillotine orders: a constitutional aberration?
It has been widely reported that the Senate, on November 29, ramrodded 32 bills through the Senate without any meaningful…
Terror on the rise
Last Friday, a prominent Jewish synagogue in Melbourne’s southeast was set on fire in what is now agreed to be…
The return of politics
The new centre and the Liberals’ National-Conservative shift
Striking a blow for men – and against media bias
Mainstream media often blithely dismisses viewpoints or ideas from what it considers unfashionable or undesirable sources. I experienced another example…
Opening the Overton window
Liberal leader Peter Dutton is winning in the polls as he continues to take his cues from the United Australia…
The turning point that shattered the climate change narrative
For the climate change zealots and their profiteering masters, October 2024 may go down as one of the most damaging…
Miracles do happen
Last week we had great news. A brilliant young Chinese PhD student won his appeal against the sexual assault convictions…
We have seen this show before
Streaming services have created a new strain of déjà vu, and this is how it works. You start watching a…
Open letter to Albanese from an 11-year-old
Dear Prime Minister Albanese, My name is Leo Fineberg and I am an 11-year-old boy who is a proud Zionist…
The new tribalism: A revolt against progressive intellectuals?
National populism is now on the rise everywhere, representing a broad-based popular revolt against the values imposed by progressive intellectuals…
Confronting terror
In the aftermath of the horrific attack on Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue, I find myself unable to stay silent. The…
Trump: the great global reset
The re-election of Donald Trump resets the world… His former presidency was almost whimsical. Trump was a rank outsider with…
Bureaucracy and Safetyism: the ugly sisters
One of the more annoying phrases that has slithered its way into public discussion is: ‘If it saves one life,…
Positano, Amalfi coast, Italy
The little motor boat with the red fish sign flying on what would have been a mast had it been…
Ocean of peace in a world of war
As a consequence of my Scottish Jewish heritage, I only read a newspaper if it is free. Since Covid, newspapers…
What’s happening in Korea?
I love the Republic of Korea. It is a country I can visit over and over without ever tiring of…
The Department of Inefficiency and Public Waste
How spending on Renewable energy is costing us a fortune
The precursor to Armageddon?
On Thursday, November 21, Russia, in an escalation of its war with Ukraine, fired a new kind of missile at…
The era of Truthophobia
Have you noticed how our language has shifted to ‘untruths’, ‘misinformation’, or the more nefarious accusation of ‘disinformation’? Apparently, misinformation…
Cash is under attack
We are being forced into a cashless society by two powerful forces – the banks (seeking more money) and the…
The limits to wind farming
150 years ago the Chief Surveyor in South Australia, George Goyder, drew a line across the map to warn prospective…
Is Australia copying Pakistan’s electricity grid?
In the quiet residential enclaves of Islamabad, my wife and I learned to live with an unreliable electricity network. Blackouts…
More ABC silliness in the silly season
It is officially the silly season during which people tend to wear funny red and green hats and have way…