Cricket Australia talks balls
The world is still round, Donald Trump is still President
Repeat after me: ‘There is no evidence of voter fraud’, ‘no, no, no, you are not to use the term…
The fox among the pigeons
Our empty streets have been taken over by pigeons and politicians. The cooing mass scratches around inside the halls of…
Daniel Andrews is escaping the consequences of his corona catastrophe
New figures out today confirm what we warned you a fortnight ago. Daniel Andrews is managing one of the greatest…
Cricket Australia talks balls
Australian cricketers proudly announced yesterday that they will begin every game this summer with a barefoot circle ceremony that will…
Professor PVO no Parler
When you understand why the Jewish establishment wanted Jesus dead you’ll understand why the mainstream media are now openly agitating…
Jobs for the girls
Australia’s Education Minister Dan Tehan is working on legislation to force our recalcitrant universities to properly tackle free speech on campuses. But it’s one thing to find…
How identity politics diminishes women
Identity politics undermines a person’s achievements and perpetuates the lie that immutable characteristics are the most important thing about a…
We’ll need to pay a higher defence premium under Biden
Since World War II Australia has kept secure by paying its premium on the United States-Australia Defence Alliance. This is…
Boris was right: Scottish devolution has been a disaster
Boris Johnson says devolution has been a ‘disaster’. This has the rare quality for a Boris statement of being true…
Who deserves blame for the Democrats’ lost House seats?
Democratic joy at defeating Donald Trump was partially dulled by the simultaneous diminishment of the party’s House majority. As of…
Five head-scratching election results
The 2020 election has already kicked up myriad allegations of fraud. From dead people voting in key states to late…
Sweden's rule of eight marks a change of strategy
Sweden has been pretty much the only country in the world to have responded to coronavirus using a voluntary system: advising,…
May I quota you?
What would you call a glass ceiling that blocks men from career advancement? A lipstick ceiling? Whatever, it exists, even…
The Marquess of Queens, buried not yet
As I write this calls from the Democrats and the press – but I repeat myself – for President Trump…
Peace nixed
A Biden administration is likely to implement a significant shift in US policy concerning Israel and the Middle East broadly.…
Business/Robbery etc.
Treasury plans to fill the RBA’s interest rate vacuum Is it cause for alarm, or an inevitable trend, that the…
Flu d’état
Ross Clark explains in the Daily Mail (3 November) how Boris Johnson’s ‘experts’ have manipulated data to terrify England into…
Zero net sense
Thanks to US president-elect Joe Biden’s declaration that his administration will set a target of net-zero emissions for the US…
Laughs on the way to the guillotine
Who says the ABC can’t do comedy? Their US election coverage was hilarious. The look on the faces of their…
A very wicked outcome in the land of Oz
Last week, Melbourne residents emerged from corona-hiding like the Munchkins after the death of the Wicked Witch of the West…
The Undoing
It’s a strange prospect for strange times, the young violinist Freya Franzen on the stage of Melbourne’s Concert Hall playing…
Arthur Streeton Land of the Golden Fleece 1926
In February 1922, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, was married in the first…
Sean Connery
Sean Connery outlived all of them, those great British actors who came to such prominence in the early Sixties: Richard…
Simon Fieldhouse Mozart Statue, Vienna
Simon Fieldhouse is a Sydney- based artist who has developed a very particular area of expression. Typically, he uses watercolour…
Things mankind was not supposed to know — the dark side of science
One day someone is going to have to write the definitive study of Wikipedia’s influence on letters. What, after all,…
The autistic mind could hold the key to the future
An old, cynical adage holds that ‘if all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’. I remembered…
Masculinity in crisis: Men and Apparitions, by Lynne Tillman, reviewed
Masculinity, we are often told, is in crisis. The narrator of Men and Apparitions, Professor Ezekiel (Zeke) Stark, both studies…
Humiliating the IRA was a fatal mistake
It was said that Reginald Maudling, as home secretary, once boarded a plane in Belfast and immediately requested a stiff…
Driven to distraction — the unhappy life of Vivien Eliot
Do you think your mother slept with T.S. Eliot? That was the question I needed to ask the 98-year-old in…
Gardening books for Christmas — reviewed by Ursula Buchan
Dan Pearson is one of the finest of all British garden designers, blessed with sensitivity, a wonderful eye, deep plant…
Universities are supposed to encourage debate, not strangle it
Liberal values are under attack on two flanks. Those of us who think extensive freedom of expression, universal human rights…
The courage of a madman: Maurice Wilson’s doomed assault on Everest
Reinhold Messner, the first person to climb all 14 of the planet’s peaks higher than 8,000 metres, is probably the…