A pandemic of the under-dieted and under-exercised
The unholy Trinity of vaccine mandates
Vaccine mandates are everywhere. Now, they are infecting the Christian churches even though they are illogical, ineffective, and un-Christian. If…
What the race hustlers reveal about America
After the maelstrom of George Floyd’s death, America’s supposed incurable heart of racism, according to most of the media, is…
Thinly veiled corporate wokery erodes business confidence
A federal parliamentary report tabled last week highlights an issue which has been quietly eroding business confidence for many operators…
The end of the green revolution
The announced closure of Incitec Pivot’s Gibson Island fertilizer plant is a sobering reminder that there is a global trend…
What’s in a name? How Covid is changing our language
I have had most vaccinations available in Australia because I have travelled extensively and have always wanted to do so…
A pandemic of the under-dieted and under-exercised
‘Your refusal has cost all of us,’ President Biden said to the unvaccinated in September, announcing a new Covid vaccine…
Australia’s national identity deserves to be preserved
Nation-states not only have a distinct way of life, they typically do all they can to preserve it. Without it,…
Correction and apology to Leigh Sales
In an article headlined ‘Travelling interstate? Prepare for holiday hell’ by Joel Agius published online on December 20 regarding onerous…
One man's campaign to protect free speech
Almost three years ago, I spoke on the phone to a man called Harry Miller. A Lincolnshire businessman, he’d just…
Are we living in the Matrix?
With the release of the fourth Matrix film this Christmas, the idea behind the original movie is once again being…
Mean Girls of the White House
President Joe Biden’s message to the unvaccinated is clear: you can’t sit with us! Biden claimed he was ushering in…
Bad boy: Bidens dump dog week before Christmas
They say a dog is for life, not just for Christmas. Clearly that’s another old adage Joe Biden no longer…
Heading towards dystopia – what happened to New Zealand?
In the clash between authoritarianism and democracy, we know what is winning hands down. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, far-left on…
Let’s not copy New Zealand’s mistake with ciggies
New Zealand this week banned smoking for the next generation. Those under 14 will never be allowed to legally smoke…
New Zealand embraces gender ghosts as the national religion
From where I sit from across the ditch it appears ‘the land of the long white cloud’ is encased in…
Decline and fall of New Zealand
As some readers of this fine weekly will know, my family and I spent eleven wonderful years living and working…
The discordant Left now calls the tune
As yet, there is no death rattle coming from the body of Western classical music, but a decline is not…
Dreaming of a woke Christmas
The City of Sydney took the time this week to wish residents a ‘zero-waste’ Christmas. ‘If you celebrate Christmas’ they…
Fleeing Danistan
When flying out of the Soviet Union – before glasnost – pilots on airlines other than Aeroflot would announce to…
Triassic Park
The Australian Christmas is an exercise in survival. History’s poets tell us that ‘heat drives people to madness’, but I…
Name wars
The leftist city council of Moreland, an inner northern Melbourne suburb, is ‘shocked’, according to the Age newspaper, to discover…
The little rainbow book
China’s exports have boomed since coronavirus. Covid-19 was probably made in a Chinese lab, but the Chinese Communist Party’s trade…
Faithful disobedience
This Christmas spare a thought for those not allowed to celebrate it. The Open Doors organisation estimates 309 million Christians…
Švejk sedition
Some time ago I attacked creationists for their scientific fraud, a charge I now lay against climate activists and the…
Sigrid Thornton
It was the thought of Stephen Sondheim’s death that made us watch Imelda Staunton in Gypsy. It’s the second musical…
Jane Campion
A new film by Jane Campion is always going to be a magnetsing prospect and the idea of it suddenly…
Nitram
Nitram is the Martin Bryant film which sent shivers down everyone’s spine at the mere prospect. Justin Kurzel’s film about…
As You Like It
As You Like It is middle Shakespeare, probably lateish 1590s. It’s not one of the earlier happy comedies like the…
Summer books
Thanks to lockdowns, restrictions and jabs, 2021 was a year that might be described, to put it kindly, as challenging.…
Were the Sixties really so liberated?
Lolita, the Lady Chatterley trial, the pill, Christine Keeler, ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’, love-ins, Oh! Calcutta!, the Oz trial…
What the Russians thought of James Bond in the 1960s
Last year I wrote a piece about James Bond for the ‘Freelance’ column of the Times Literary Supplement. All true…
Don’t be seduced by fake truffle oil this Christmas
Truffles smell of sex. Even if we can’t quite say what we mean by ‘smell’ or ‘sex’ in this sentence,…
Why America’s attitude to mental illness is dangerously deluded
A friend who works in social care speaks to me earnestly about a troubled young colleague: ‘Of course, she’s got…
Jan Morris’s last book is a vade mecum to treasure
Jan Morris, in all her incarnations, was always able to evoke a place and a moment like no other. As…
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All successful spies need to be good actors
On 2 October last year, when he became chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6, if you prefer), Richard…
