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Disharmony Day
In what is an extremely crowded field, I may have found the wokest school principal in Australia. In March, the…
Abraham Lincoln is Making You Fat
In the latest woke madness, an American author has claimed that the desire to be thin is actually a result…
Test article for Hard paywall – GK
We are a long way from the ‘I have a dream’ world. In 2023, when a researcher writes a paper, their…
Anything but Christianity! (Or mum and dad)
News that ‘Christmas and Easter will not be celebrated in some childcare centres under new inclusion guidelines’ is, quite extraordinary.…
Queensland trade unions – a monopoly?
In Australian politics, the Labor Party has typically cast itself as the defenders of the rights of working people. Yet…
Collapse of the $35 billion Sun Cable
Last week saw the collapse of Sun Cable, a pie-in-the-sky $35 billion plan by alternative energy enthusiasts, Andrew Forrest and…
The electric vehicle hoax
Let’s face it, Harry Windsor has taken the ‘festive season’ seriously and kept us all mightily amused with his ripping…
M&M’s: saving women one calorie at a time
I’ve never really thought of M&M’s as having a gender when they disappear from the packet and head straight to…
The old man’s tale
The councilman was adamant: ‘The Law must have its way, The shed you built is not approved It must come…
The corporate church
Corporate culture is an absolute curse on society that corrupts everything it touches. Woke policies, left-wing ideals, and a severe…
Of Marx and men
In a recent speech at Oxford University, renowned thinker and writer Peter Hitchens lamented that conservativism is dead in Western…
Qatar wins against Woke
Last month (or year to be precise), the FIFA World Cup ended with the most entertaining final in the sport’s…
What climate crisis?
F or more than 80 per cent of time, Earth has been a warm wet greenhouse planet with no ice.…
Welcome to whingeonomics
Welcome to whingeanomics, where facts never stop the whingeing and the biggest whingers get the headlines, and your money. Take…
The case for bad Catholics
As the USA continues to legally and culturally recognise lifestyle choices that conflict with the teachings of the world’s major…
The lost art of respect
In the age of performative morality and cults of personality, attaining and maintaining respect has dissolved into but a vestige…
Republican party dissenters
Fifteen times lucky! You have to go back over a century and a half, pre-Civil War, to see anything like…
Move over B1 and B2
‘For an economist, I’m quite a restrained forecaster – particularly about the future, so the joke goes. But it’s always…
A Covid vocabulary
When the novel coronavirus began to dominate world news in 2020 (the virus may already have been in circulation in…
Liberal party woes
A week before Christmas, a newsletter arrived from the president of the Liberal party in Victoria. It noted the loss…
The tragedy of selective abortion in Britain
Late last year, Heidi Crowter, a 27-year-old woman with Down syndrome, lost her court of appeal challenge over late-term abortions on grounds of serious foetal abnormalities. Abnormalities such as…
Is this the end of Lori Lightfoot?
As President Biden’s team tried to put out fires regarding the Curious Case of the Corvette and the FAA fiasco,…
Alireza Akbar’s execution is a tragedy
UK officials from the Prime Minister downwards have condemned the execution of Iran’s former deputy defence minister, a dual British-Iranian…
Is the Princess of Wales right about talking therapy?
The Princess of Wales is in hot water for some remarks she made while visiting the Open Door charity in…
Harry and Meghan have put Jacinda Ardern in an awkward position
A trailer was released this week for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix documentary series, Live to Lead,…
Now even Saint Jacinda snubs Meghan
Are the wokest couple in all the West losing their star power? The first-half of the Sussexes’ new ‘explosive’ documentary…
Blame Jacinta
Doug Sprigg, owner of the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, and I are traversing the continent using isolated station tracks in my…
Lying, deceit, and prevarication throughout our New Zealand politburo
On this side of the Tasman, the circumstances relating to the ramming through Parliament under urgency of the now misnamed…
Why is social media pushing young women to donate our eggs?
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Feast of epiphanies
January 6, the end of the twelve days of Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany when the three wise…
I, Spy
Is the new year a time to reflect on the misjudgments of a life spent opining? Thirty years ago, when…
The intensity of Christmas
What a box of contradictions Christmas is. There’s the quest for presents – which can get urgent and exhilarated in…
Spare reviewed: Harry is completely disingenuous – or an idiot
A surprising number of royal personages have published books under their own names, and sometimes they have even been written…
The films of Quentin Tarantino’s childhood
Explaining how she managed to kick her cocaine habit, the singer Fiona Apple recalled ‘one excruciating night’ she spent trapped…
Singeing the King of Spain’s beard was one provocation too many
In the 1964 Hammer film The Devil-Ship Pirates, a privateer of the defeated Spanish Armada escapes the English fleet and…
Nehru’s plans for a new India were sadly short-lived
In Jawaharlal Nehru’s final will and testament he asked for most of his ashes be taken in an aeroplane and…
Hiding out in wartime Italy: A Silence Shared, by Lalla Romano
The name Lalla Romano is not familiar to English readers. Despite being much acclaimed during her lifetime (and the recipient…
Not just wet, but ‘dripping wet’ – how the tabloids viewed Lord Woolf
Senior judges are often seen as being cloistered and aloof, carrying the heavy responsibility of incarcerating hundreds of people every…
The Hope Diamond brought nothing but despair
Nothing is less animate than a stone. There is little of significance in the random compounds that make up the…
The Britain Elizabeth II acceded to was barely recognisable within a decade
The writer of contemporary history has a number of advantages over his colleagues who deal with the more distant past.…