Western civilisation is on course to be drowned by sinister forces -- Marxist greenies, governments, corporates and the media -- while useful idiots in posh inner-city suburbs cheer uneconomic and unproven technologies whose deficiencies they lack the mental wherewithal to understand. Hold on to your hats, and your diesel generator if you have one.

Read More

I can grasp why Dominic Perrottet must keep onside the likes of Matt Kean and an education minister who refuses to boot Bruce Pascoe from the classroom, but in decreeing the unvaccinated must only appear in public behind their face nappies he has drawn the mask of political expedience over principle, evidence and the face of his own good sense

Read More

Alas that I lack a team of COVID 'case' tabulators, doomsday modellers and specialists in cold-shiver statistics, every single one of which appears to have been copyrighted by rival TV talkers. But I'm game to do my own calculations -- readers are invited to critique my methods, by the way -- and what I've concluded is that all the experts omit the most important element of all

Read More

Tyranny without end. Quite simply and literally, we are in the midst of the greatest attack on civil liberties by government during the entirety of modern Western civilisation. Nothing like it has been seen before. And this, to ward off (and forlornly) a virus which kills very few in the overall scheme of things

Read More

The official COVID information website advises pregnant 'persons' that COVID vaccinations are without risk, being safe 'at any stage of pregnancy'. How can they be so sure? An April study in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' advises 'more longitudinal follow-up, including ... large numbers of women vaccinated earlier in pregnancy, is necessary to inform maternal, pregnancy, and infant outcomes'

Read More

We're in the grip of a capricious authoritarianism that separates children from parents, forbids bedside visits to the dying, endorses police thuggery and urges us to inform against our neighbours. The pandemic has brought out this multi-faceted ugliness, not least of which is the spin, misrepresentation and untruths peddled tirelessly by our political and managerial classes

Read More

Sydney University bioethics professor Angus Dawson puts it this way: “A choice not to be vaccinated may mean that you do not have access to certain benefits, but this is not coercion, as such.” Notice the sleight of hand? Liberties long regarded as givens are now 'benefits' and, as such, can be erased for those deemed not to deserve them

Read More

It goes against the grain, but the sad fact is that civility is wasted on so-called progressives, who decline to respond in kind. Going along to get along, as did so many in lamenting Donald Trump's abrasive vulgarity, brought us what exactly? A drooling fool in the Oval Office and all the failures now and to come that his handlers feed into the presidential TelePrompter

Read More

Freedoms don’t hang on parliaments but on an implied social contract that those with power will not act despotically, an understanding that grows from a culture with norms of behaviour bred over very long periods. It helps to explain why you won’t democratise Afghanistan. What you can do, however, is convert a trusting democracy to a command-and-control society

Read More

Noticed how our elected leaders and their chief health officers relish reporting that some unfortunate young person has been claimed by the Wuhan Flu? 'See', the message seems to be, 'our restrictions aren't overreactions, not with sudden death stalking our streets'. Check the data, evaluate the modelling and peruse the ABS stats and things aren't as presented

Read More