Flat White
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…
Gore blimey! Al’s that for a stack?
Want to have some innocent merriment at the expense of the man who put the cash into climate catastrophe, Al…
The other side of rights
There’s something quite disconcerting about modern society’s preoccupation with rights movements and the Trudeauan, technocratic snobbery that seems to come…
Why should the rich have free public schools?
We all know the school stereotype. Government schools are full of disadvantaged students and struggling for money, while overfunded wealthy…
G20: our greatest moral challenge is preserving the West
The main news headline to come out of the G20 seems to be, in essence, that “The United States’ influence…
Yassmin and Tim, from migrant to migrant, please stop whinging
Dear Yassmin and Tim You know your incessant whinging about how horrible Australia is? As a migrant to fellow migrants,…
Brave Badham’s “Battle of the Bulge” against Trump
Politically correct feminism just keeps getting funnier, folks! These days, rants from its most zealous true believers are so jaw-droppingly…
Theresa May and three heresies
There’s still a whole lot of libertarian grand-standing going on about the British general election, much of it predicated on…
“Guten tag! Welcome to Hamburg!”
“Really Lucy, it’s quite frustrating. I was hoping to get away … get away from we-know-who and his rants, I…