Peak liberalism: women are an untapped human resource

Australia’s women remain an untapped resource in the hunt for productivityhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/24/women-economic-reform-roundtable-productivity-australia ‘Female empowerment is more than just ‘nice to have’,…

Australian politicians love weaponised idpol

‘Labor says Hamas tries to ‘manipulate facts’ after terrorist group welcomes Australia’s Palestine recognition decision’https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/13/labor-says-hamas-tries-to-manipulate-facts-after-terrorist-group-welcomes-australias-palestine-recognition-decision “Hamas always tries to manipulate…

Teaching critical thinking, time to hit panic button

One of many reasons not to even try to teach in this crackhead country, every demagogue and technocrat is a…

Self-help brochures that should be free at the GP, but aren’t

Get girls to like you by getting to know and liking yourself first Picture this: you’re sitting around eating lunch…

Arena Magazine is what happens when neoliberal Professional Mangerial Class sophists inbreed

https://arena.org.au/sempiternal-return This is a perfect snapshot of the shortcomings of upper middle class, Professional-Managerial Class, corporate-captured liberalism. They start off…

Everything is a terrorism, just for something different

It’s a no-brainer that critical thinking and an ethical core are immensely triggering to ethnofascist totalitarians, if not autocrats generally.…

New screeds are going on Substack

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‘Offender apologists’

Anyone wanting to know how facile mainstream politics has become, look no further. ‘Neoliberal’ (i.e. not liberal, illiberal) idpol: ‘if…

When yer on the dole and ya aint comin off

Oh well maybe they’ll be desperate enough for history teachers in the northern hemisphere to look twice at my ass.…

I was in UHLEH

I went on a conference junket a mounting number of moons ago. The conference was in upstate New York. To…