‘Hate Speech’ laws and the murder of justice
Anyone keen on hate speech laws, needs to spend a year in Pakistan living under their Islamic blasphemy laws. It’s…
Bureaucratic punishment
Michael* (not his real name) is a typical Aussie kid who grew up in Sydney’s beaches. Confident and cheerful, he…
Fatima Payman: the untouchable senator
When they are first elected and enter their party room for the first time, Labor MPs sign the Pledge. They…
Treason, Leaks, and Julian Assange: a misguided hero?
Thomas Jefferson once shot a man on the White House Lawn for treason. The Western world has come a long…
Australians should celebrate the return of Assange
The return of Julian Assange to Australia has undoubtedly been the dominant news item during the last couple of days.…
It’s time for a reckoning on race and gender
The Western world is facing a reckoning on race and gender. The rise of discriminatory hiring practices is usually the…
Liturgy Wars
One of the epic struggles in the culture wars of our time is reaching its climax, a conflict every bit…
Julian Assange is not the hero many want him to be
Some are celebrating the release of Julian Assange while others beg to differ. Were his actions those of a whistleblower…
Why are Australians dying?
Since the very first day that I was elected as a Senator for Victoria I have been seeking answers as…
The Australian Education Union is miffed about phonics
One of my earliest memories is sitting on the front verandah of my parents’ farmhouse. My two younger brothers and…
Wind turbines? Not in my backyard
It appears that wind turbines are the best thing since people started tilting at windmills. Have you ever wondered how…
The right to f*#kng protest!
Lucky, I speak fluent CFMEU… The construction union’s boss, John Setka, has had a lot to say in the media…
In the footsteps of terror
Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack, the deadliest terror atrocity in history, killed 2,996 people of the then 285 million population of…
A future Sorry Day
In recent times, Sorry Days have become quite popular, delivered by representatives of both federal and state governments. Apologies have…
Business/Robbery, etc
Australia’s rush to renewables (with its unachievable unrealistic targets) has generated an energy subservience to China. It creates the potential…
eKaren’s magic trick
Every good magician has mastered the art of misdirection. Get the audience looking elsewhere so they don’t notice the trick…
Rise of the new right
Whither representative democracy? The BBC’s Nick Robinson says that Conservatives think of Reform leader Nigel Farage as ‘a kind of…
Importance of Being Earnestly Pro-Renewables
Who is writing Paul Keating’s talking points these days? Those familiar with his tirades might have detected in his latest…
Tiktok… time’s up for old-fashioned politicians
Judging by the outcome of the European elections, it would appear that the globalist consensus has been rejected by voters.…
Britain’s looming disaster
Within a week, Britain will have the most left-wing government in its history. This won’t be because of Labour’s popularity,…
Why is Starmer starting rows before the election?
The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he didn’t mean to cause ‘concern or offence’ when he called for…
Biden’s social media needs a refresh
Joe Biden has a cold. That was the desperate message sent out by sources close to the president halfway through…
Newsom is better than Biden
I have on the desk two yo-yos. One is from the brand Duncan – the ‘Imperial’ model. The other is from the…
Kemi Badenoch blasts Nigel Farage
With a week to go until polling day, the Tories are stepping up their attacks on Reform. Following Channel 4’s…
Kiwi life
New Zealand in crisis Given the destruction the previous Labour government inflicted on this country, and the damage caused by…
New Zealand’s carbon sequestration problem
Ongoing concern about climate change has fuelled debate about the part carbon sequestration might play in reducing New Zealand’s net…
Why New Zealand is cracking down on immigration
The government of New Zealand this week tightened the country’s working visa rules in order to stem historically high numbers…
Why is New Zealand’s deputy PM rowing with Chumbawamba?
In their musical heyday, the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba enjoyed a reputation for having an irreverent attitude towards those…
Why is it so hard to be a Christian in public life?
Greatness written all over him
It was fascinating to see Patti LuPone that immense Broadway musical star interviewed with such palpable reverence by the ABC’s…
‘Terrible but magnificent’: the life and times of playwright John Osborne
With the news the Almeida Theatre is to stage John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger this Autumn as…
This shimmering desert haze
There’s something inspiring about getting an example of the national talent locking horns with the glory of traditional high culture,…
Phantom of her own career
Sunset Boulevard is one of the weirdest entertainment phenomena in the history of the world because it starts as a…
Unless the Treasury is tamed, there’s no solution to Britain’s problems
The Tory era is not (quite) over yet, but already the obituaries are in. In particular, two new books from…
A brief glimpse of secretive Myanmar
Were trains to blame for the travel writing boom of the 1980s? When Paul Theroux’s The Great Railway Bazaar was…
A sea of troubles: The Coast Road, by Alan Murrin, reviewed
Contemporary Irish writers have a knack of making their recent past feel very foreign. Clare Keegan’s Small Things Like These…
Pure Puccini: an opera lover’s melodramatic family history
‘If a horse is born in a stable, does it bark like a dog?’ By the time the Duke of…
Afrikaner angst: Cato Pedder goes in search of her ancestors
‘Let me tell you about Jan Smuts,’ my grandfather, a doctor born not far from Johannesburg, would begin. And we,…
Runaway lovers: The Heart in Winter, by Kevin Barry, reviewed
Watching Kevin Barry’s progress over the years has been a pleasure. His first novel, City of Bohane, flamboyant with tribal…
The atmosphere of a historic country house cannot be bought
The Historic Houses Association can congratulate itself. This pressure group for country houses, founded in 1973, has proved to be…
No Sir Lancelot: A Good Deliverance, by Toby Clements, reviewed
Sir Thomas Malory is not much of a knight. He lies; he is lecherous; he is bested in tourneys; he…