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  • MH370 at the communist crossroads

    This was published in January 2025 under a different title in The Spectator Australia – here. Did MH370 really fly all the way down to the southern hemisphere, crashing in the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO) west of Perth? Or was this a manipulated narrative designed to take the search to the other side of the…

  • The sliding scale of Australian boganhood

    There has been some high-brow analysis of Australian boganhood recently. The 2022 compilation of essays, Class in Australia, where writers ‘take class as their analytic focus, bringing empirical and conceptual light to the ways in which class offers a relational and structural understanding of inequality, social and cultural relations, and affective modalities’, includes the essay,…

  • An alternative South Australian perspective

    An edited version of this article was published on Flat White – here. The Flat White article, ‘A South Australian perspective’, written by Ross Eastcoast, will win him plenty of admirers in Sydney and Melbourne. Of all of the articles written by journalists who seek popularity by slipping a boot into Adelaide or South Australia,…

  • The new self-fu*king help books

    A G-rated version of this little article was published in The Spectator Australia – here. The original version, as submitted to The Spectator Australia, is below. In a bookshop at Adelaide airport last Christmas I saw a well-dressed woman, seemingly in her mid-sixties, looking studiously at the front and back covers of a book entitled…

  • MH370 – the lead that vanished

    Now that the “shocking” new evidence in the Sky News documentary MH370: The Untold Story has been revealed, I write to report a disappearance. Of the various theories and leads that have been advanced since the tragedy on 8 March 2014, there is one that has gone missing, never sighted by any investigating team including,…

  • Sic note

    We all make mistakes. To quote the Augustan satirist Alexander Pope, “to err is humanistic”. But we also like to point out other people’s mistakes and in the written form we do this with ‘sic’, the term inserted into a sentence (in parentheses) to make it clear that the mistake is not ours. It is…

  • #newedition

    At the time of writing, December 2020, the #newedition movement can be considered a true global phenomenon. As it sets about the work of re-writing world history in the manner it should always have been written, it represents the most significant mountain that our noble progressive movement has yet climbed. But the one thing that…