The rising tide of word inflation has sparked recent debates surrounding politically correct language. The ‘anointed’ – mainstream media talking heads and progressive politicians – are...
What is it about movie celebrities (those who are highly skilled in pretending to be other people in pretend situations), that they would willingly shoot themselves...
The popularity of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, first published in 1991, revealed a big market in the West for stories of women growing up in China....
This time would be different. The lessons of the past learned. Cheats and clowns banished. Lies debarred, chaos expunged. Trust restored, law exalted. Instead of hollow...
In a book review a decade ago, I mocked academics’ penchant for running experiments with “mock juries” — people told to pretend to be jurors at...
When a negotiation consists of one side asking for money and the other offering it, there’s not really much doubt who has the whip hand. And...
Watching the Leader of the Greens paddle around in a synthetic raft, wearing plastic shades, complaining about the evils of fossil fuel, has got to be...
Apparently there is a debate about transgender access to women’s bathrooms on ‘The Hill’. Except, there is no ‘debate’. What we have is an instruction that...
Two-Tier Keir, or as he is now known ‘Starmer the Stalinist’ following his Soviet-style attack on farmers, has proposed ‘Respect Laws’ to target anti-social behaviour. Falling...
On the far south coast of New South Wales, the prevailing breeze is a nor’easter. Over the past few days, the air temperature has been a...