REVEALED: How woke bureaucrats used the corona crisis to cancel women
Gladys versus God
Churches cannot — and must not — comply with health orders that require them to exclude unvaccinated people from worship…
REVEALED: How woke bureaucrats used the corona crisis to cancel women
While two-thirds of this country’s population is currently locked up at home and deprived of its fundamental freedoms, unelected bureaucrats…
It’s not only history. The left has captured literature too
Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of…
‘We managed to toilet train cows’
“We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change,” a…
Covid: the New World Order
Something dangerous has happened to Australia. We have allowed the interests of ‘collective health’ to erase individual human rights. It…
Dead reef? What dead reef?
Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…
Jacinda Ardern – an agenda-driven autocrat?
It’s hard to keep up with our adroit Prime Minister who apparently doesn’t like answering questions, such as the one about where does…
Lorraine Finlay, conservative governments and appointments
I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as…
Joe Biden cheapened 9/11
With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 having come and gone, many have turned to reflection. Some meditate on the solidarity…
Life in LA is murder
It was a punch in the face, followed by a thick spray of blood. Then another punch, another victim. More…
Return to Kabul
The Taliban Cultural Commission sounds a contradiction in terms but for all foreign journalists it’s the first stop in the…
Hunter Biden, artist of modern life
Why do we keep hearing about Hunter Biden? Why is this disgraced political son and aspiring amateur pornographer now making…
Jacinda Ardern – an agenda-driven autocrat?
It’s hard to keep up with our adroit Prime Minister who apparently doesn’t like answering questions, such as the one about where does…
More than one way to ruin a country
The shock of the brutal religious fanaticism of the Taliban again abroad in Afghanistan, partly at least to the shame…
Kiwis want elimination, and nothing but elimination
Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta…
The bribing of the New Zealand media?
“Trustworthy, insightful, important” — one thing we can say for our mainstream media is that they must think we are…
Code red indeed
Whatever lessons are learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, one stands out. It is that our trust in those we contract…
Puritanical rule in lockdown Australia
Australians are currently being subjected to hitherto unprecedented control over, and incursions into, our lives by the state. We have…
Carry on down the coal mine
The inevitable drive towards a clean, green, emissions-free future means that the Australian coal industry must be left by the…
Watching the empty trains roll by
Picture the scene. I am hanging out in a very average park in an outer suburb of Melbourne. I’m looking…
Is Trudeau toast?
Canada’s national election will be held in just over a week, on 20 September. Despite being only two years into…
The return of the racism versus rape debate
The gang rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Austria recently has provoked outrage throughout the nation. Four Afghan…
Locked out
It was a Father’s Day to forget for many Australians. More than half are locked in their home, the rest…
More than one way to ruin a country
The shock of the brutal religious fanaticism of the Taliban again abroad in Afghanistan, partly at least to the shame…
Thomas Mann
And so Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge is Melbourne’s musical-in- waiting. The show that can only go on when we’re 80…
Charlie Watts
The endless news is of shows locked down as every form of life is locked down in a nation struggling…
Nicole Kidman
And, as even Canberra locks down, so do all the shows. The Melbourne Theatre Company shuts down its production of…
Ernest Hemingway
Entertainment in a public place shrivels as the lockdowns continue. The Australian Ballet has cancelled its Melbourne season, Anna Karenina…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was lucky to escape retribution in 1945
They rather like bad boys, the French. Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) is one, in a tradition that stretches from François Villon…
James Bond and the Beatles herald a new Britain
The word ‘magisterial’ consistently attaches itself to the work of David Kynaston. His eye-wateringly exhaustive four-volume history of the Old…
All great fun: Mary Churchill dances through the war
The famous photographic portrait by Karsh of Winston Churchill as wartime prime minster personifies heroic defiance and grim determination. His…
Chips Channon’s judgment was abysmal, but the diaries are a great work of literature
It is often said that the best political diaries are written by those who dwell in the foothills of power.…
Irish quartet: Beautiful World, Where Are You?, by Sally Rooney, reviewed
The millennial generation of Irish novelists lays great store by loving relationships. One of the encomia on the cover of…
Ahmad Shah Massoud was Afghanistan’s best hope
Ahmed Shah Massoud was described as ‘the Afghan who won the Cold War’. While famous in France (he was educated…
America sees red: how fury prompted the slide into Trumpism
After leaving college more than two decades ago, Evan Osnos landed a job on the Exponent Telegram, one of two…
Lost to addiction: Loved and Missed, by Susie Boyt, reviewed
Ruth, the narrator of Susie Boyt’s seventh novel, is both the child of a single mother and a single mother…
