The Mocker

The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.

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Pronoun plods cross line

Hardworking police must be embarrassed by their virtue-signalling, desk-bound superiors.

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Extinction Rebellion climate change protesters demonstrate during a rally in Trafalgar Square, London, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Climate protesters in London have kept up their campaign despite being ousted by a police order from their Trafalgar Square encampment on Monday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

‘War is a result of climate change’

Apparently the Syrian conflict is due to climate change. Is it any wonder we lampoon climate activists?

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Climate protestors of the group Extinction Rebellion act in front of police officers near Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Some hundreds of climate change activists are in central London during a third day of world protests by the Extinction Rebellion movement to demand more urgent actions to counter global warming. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Law-abiding? Ordinary? I think not

Extinction Rebellion activists like to think of themselves as ‘ordinary people’. Well, here’s a message.

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Professor Tim Flannery wrote in The Conversation last week that he felt his 20 years of climate activism had been a 'colossal failure'. Picture: Agencies

A climate of fear … or failure?

Why is purported expert Tim Flannery referring to himself as an ‘activist’?

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Alice Springs Town Councillor Jacinta Price 9 March 2018. Photo: EMMA MURRAY

You’re not the first, Jacinta

When Coffs Harbour City Council tried to ban Jacinta Price, it was continuing a long tradition.

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Model Adut Akech speaks to the media during a Melbourne Fashion Week press conference in Melbourne, Wednesday, August 28, 2019. Model Adut Akech says she will continue to speak out about racism after a magazine published an interview with her but used a photo of another African-Australian model. (AAP Image/Alex Murray) NO ARCHIVING

Regrettable mistake … or racism?

A magazine mixes up two models. Now ‘an entire race has been disrespected’. Surely an overreaction?

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Jacinda Ardern, left, Prince Harry and Meghan, right, and a slew of private jet owners have all dived into the climate change debate. Pictures:

Diving into climate hysteria

There’s a plausible explanation for climate hysteria: oxygen thieves with carbon footprints.

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10/05/2017 Gillian Triggs delivering the Walter Lippmann memorial oration at Melbourne Town Hall. Picture: David Geraghty / The Australian.

The world is Triggs’ oyster

She’s our lady with the lamp and may her light shineth bright in exposing human rights abuses.

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Screenshot from the recent Gillette advertisement which has caused controversy.

The cost of Gillette’s wokeness

So much for that ad. Procter & Gamble shaves down razor business’s value by $12bn.

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Monty Python's Holy Grail, and (inset) pig-tailed climate soothsayer Greta Thunberg

Climate change’s holy grail

Greta Thunberg has found a ship to bear her to talks in the US, but at what carbon cost?

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