Rupert Murdoch doesn't dominate our media. He stands in the way of total left control, hence the hate campaign
Hot potato, hot potato
The latest “culturally insensitive” crisis to engulf Western Civilisation is Blue Wiggle Anthony Field apologising for a video clip of…
Welcome home: a tale of quarantine
“This is a five-star hotel. I can tell you, the food is great.” he said. “I get the same food as yous get.” …
Beware the Dan trap
Melbourne businesses are preparing to open up — what’s left of them — and Victoria’s Stockholm Syndrome is in full…
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t dominate our media. He stands in the way of total left control, hence the hate campaign
For the left, Rupert Murdoch truly is an, if not the, Antichrist. He has been so before Trump and is…
When will WA Labor lift the Iron Ore Curtain?
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is hopeful Western Australia will re–open by late December. No doubt that will be on…
Danandrewstan opens – in a way that only the people who created the problem to begin with could arrange
Daniel Andrews loves his facts and figures. At his press conference today, he seemed proud that it was 139 days…
ABC staff confirm their selfishness and self-obsession
The number one rule of consumer media is to understand your audience – unless you work at the(ir) ABC. The…
Palaszczuk’s punt: baristas or the bush
Once again, conservative Queensland voices stand alone and well apart from the madding crowd. While almost every other political body…
Why is Macron so determined to infuriate the rest of the world?
In the course of his three-and-a-half year presidency, Emmanuel Macron must have the record for the most number of international…
The trans debate could cost this Cambridge porter his job
This is a story about a man called Kevin Price, who was until last week a councillor and who is,…
The Disneyfication of the moral universe
‘I’m sitting here struggling for words and my friend nailed it: “She was our Princess Leia.”’ With those words, Dr…
Macron's clash with Islam and the hypocrisy of the French boycott
Emmanuel Macron’s staunch defence of the right to publish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad proved popular in France. But now the…
No logic please, we’re Leftists
Leftists have herd immunity to humour. Nowhere is this more evident than with ABC ‘comedy’ (there’s a series impending that…
Hippocrates cancelled
How can they sleep at night? Or face themselves in the mirror in the morning? I ask the question ‘triggered’…
My pick? A narrow Trump win
It is not just the usual suspects at the ABC and in the Fairfax press who seem to have Trump…
Ciggie smugglers making a killing
A Malaysian woman was recently sentenced to two years in an Australian jail for orchestrating a sophisticated money laundering and…
Falling for Daryl
In the 1954 horror film, Creature from the Black Lagoon, a monster emerges from a murky backwater of the Amazon,…
As history fades into history
My son is more at risk of becoming a victim of the ‘march through the institutions’ than I ever was.…
Cashless in Alice
Income Management and the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) have long faced opposition from those who claim that not allowing welfare…
Biden: Beijing’s candidate
Australia’s elites would prefer Beijing’s candidate, Joe Biden in the White House, it seems. But, unlike 2016, at least a…
Orson Welles
The journals of the plague year from the point of view of culture are getting weirder and weirder from Daniel…
Opera Australia’s Attila before shutdown in March
Attila the Hun might have been hard to stop but Verdi’s opera Attila was stopped in its tracks at the…
Too much of nothing
In the world of the arts, some things keep on even in this time of impossibility which the virus has…
Josh Frydenberg
There has been a fair bit of bleating from sectors claiming to have been ignored in the Budget; in fact…
Tom Bower pulls his punches with his life of Boris Johnson
Tom Bower explains in his acknowledgements that this is not an authorised biography and he did not seek Boris Johnson’s…
The gospel of separation according to Malcolm X
In late April 1962 Los Angeles police shot and killed an unarmed black man, Ronald X Stokes, during a disturbance…
Sarah Maslin Nir enjoys the rides of a lifetime
The appeal of a book called Horse Crazy risks being limited to those who are. Yet many moments in Sarah…
The scholars who solved the riddles in the sands
In 1835 the first two Egyptian antiquities were registered in the British Museum: a pair of red granite lions from…
Cyber apocalypse: The Silence, by Don DeLillo, reviewed
Elaborated over a writing career that spans half a century — a career crowned with every honour save the Nobel…
The power behind The Few: Rolls-Royce’s Merlin engine
Eighty years ago this summer Britain was facing its greatest moment of peril as Göring’s Luftwaffe attacked airfields, cities and…
Looking for love: Ghosts, by Dolly Alderton
Of all the successful modern female writers documenting their search for love, none has been as endearing as Dolly Alderton.…
We should never take our daily bread for granted
In the seventh and final chapter of this small but lingeringly powerful book, the author reveals his motivation for writing…