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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s real heresy: against leftist dogma
In 1996, British artist Chris Ofili premiered his painting of the Virgin Mary composed through liberal use of elephant dung…
Oh Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm…
Winston Churchill said of Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour PM: I remember when I was a child, being taken to…
Tony Nutt: Turnbull’s fall guy
On Wednesday, Liberal federal director Tony Nutt announced his resignation after a year and a half in the job. The…
The Greens Israel problem
In some respects, the NSW branch of the Young Greens ought to be congratulated for their honesty. As reported in…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the cultural erosion of free speech
If there was any doubt that Australia has a growing hostility towards free speech, the forced cancellation of Ayaan Hirsi…
Let’s bomb the crap out of North Korea
By no means am I one of those American ‘neo-conservatives’ who’d liberate every tin-pot dictatorship at gunpoint. If some people…
Suicide, Ms Gillard? You can’t handle the truth
Crickets. This silence isn’t golden, Julia – it’s blue. Beyond blue, actually. Gillard has been speaking out about mental health…
The joy of swearing
Proficiency in another language is always helpful, particularly when a discrete profanity is required. In a life not always well…
The relentless lies of the business lobby
It’s been a big few weeks for the industrial relations landscape in Australia. Former Fair Work Commission vice-president Graeme Watson…
Labor move for extending 18C could impose Islamic blasphemy law
The Labor Party apparently seeks to extend the reach of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to cover religion.…
We demand free speech on gay marriage
Lies are spoken often and freely in public policy debates. But they seldom bear the scrutiny which inevitably comes their…
Diversity? What diversity?
Supporters of same-sex marriage predicted a ‘campaign of hatred’ would be unleashed by the proposal’s opponents. That’s why Bill Shorten…
Justin Milne’s Stand Up Comedy Routine
If the Walkleys had a Most Humorous Headline category, ‘No bias at the ABC vows new chairman’, would surely take…
How government increases housing prices
Australia’s housing prices are astronomical. Indeed, compared to local salaries, Australian cities are among the world’s most unaffordable places to…
Our friends the dictators
Dictators in the modern age have become very adept at buying friends and reliable apologists. They are praised for their…
I’m giving up virtual signalling for lent
As we approach Holy Week (or as some call it, the Easter holidays), I was prompted to remember the principal…
Russia’s modern Reds and Whites
This year’s centenary of the 1917 Revolution always had the potential to expose underlying but usually concealed friction within the…
Why I can’t get excited by science
God knows why, but I found myself browsing that Humans of New York website yesterday. Terrible site. It’s basically emotional…
Let’s have a welcome home parade for our terrorists
The Whitlam government’s decision to lay out the welcome mat to communists we had been fighting in Vietnam for almost…
The dangerous narcissism of Earth Hour
Around this time in March each year, millions of people in developed countries spend 60 minutes of their lives reeling…
Time to get tough on business-union sleaze
Nearly sixteen months after Dyson Heydon handed down his final report following the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption, Malcolm…
Property management, Greens-style
Now and again the world gets a real life opportunity to catch a glimpse what would happen if the inmates…
We have democratised censorship
The “Infidel” Ayaan Hirsi-Ali is coming to Australia on a speaking tour in April and she will be exercising her…
Clickbait feminism and the war on choice
TRIGGER WARNING: Mansplaining. Women can’t seem to catch a break these days. As if dealing with the catcallers, creeps and…
The abolition of women
I’m a bit turned-around on a rather major point of public discourse, dear reader, and am hoping you might walk…
