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The Moskva sinking is significant
It’s early days yet, but the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, apparently by Ukrainian missiles,…
Is Deves right about children being harmed?
I agree with Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves. We are sterilising and surgically mutilating children. I’ve watched countless videos…
Humanity's limitless potential for evil
In last Saturday’s Weekend Australian, Geoffrey Robertson argued that sanctions against Putin and his supporters must be tightened, (What responsibility do…
Love is love - unless you disagree
When it comes to transgender issues, our Prime Minister is a weathervane trapped in a man’s body. His pronouns are…
Spotting cracks in the first home deposit scheme
Canberra’s extension of the First Home Deposit Scheme, Regional Home and Family Home Guarantees is set to put another 50,000 Australians…
Dr Murphy, Cultural Marxism, and the desecration of truth
Who would you trust the most? A person who has dedicated their life to helping others but is a Christian?…
I want my country back
I hope the day returns when I am not surprised by the events unfolding before my eyes. The older I…
Scomo, Albo, and their fantasy Net Zero policies
Both the ALP and the Coalition have the same Net Zero goal for 2050, but that time frame is, at…
Partygate cuts through with voters
The Tory task at the next election is enormous. No party in the democratic age has ever won a fifth…
The Rwanda plan could save Boris
If you want to see what explosive growth looks like then I invite you to eschew all the old Covid…
Our prisons are woefully unprepared for Ali Harbi Ali
The Islamist terrorist Ali Harbi Ali will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of Sir…
The new plan to stop Channel migrants
How best to move attention away from the Prime Minister receiving a fine over partygate? An eye-catching government announcement to…
New Zealand’s cultural upheaval
My wife and I recently spent two weeks on a road trip around New Zealand’s South Island. It’s a spectacularly…
Ardern and Clark’s next pandemic will be horrid
Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern have been very mean to the world’s Covid Cinderella, New Zealand. Just when we thought…
Attacking English to undermine our European heritage
It starts with very familiar, underground movements burrowing away, gaining a little ground at a time until eventually a society…
How New Zealand's zero Covid strategy fell apart
The biggest thing in the political rock world returns to the international stage this spring with a one-off appearance at…
Opposite of what it first seems
Did readers see that Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Pictures has banned actor Will Smith from attending the Oscars ceremony for…
Business/Robbery, etc.
‘They lied,’ said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week as he described the Western world’s virtue-signalling greenhouse gas emissions commitments…
Trade-offs, what trade-offs?
One of the advantages – could also be a disadvantage – of being locked up in a room with the…
Game of empires
The hysteria has moved on from Covid to Ukraine. Given official and media propaganda on lockdowns and vaccines on their…
New Zealand’s cultural upheaval
My wife and I recently spent two weeks on a road trip around New Zealand’s South Island. It’s a spectacularly…
No time for proxy servers
Since 1945, great powers have not fought against each other. Instead, tensions between great powers have been discharged through proxy…
Vaccine mysteries need explaining
It started with the ambulances. Queensland recorded its fourth-highest number of triple-0 calls for a single day last Monday with…
How to win, PM
Why have Australia’s principal parties forgotten their bases? The party whose policies address this omission could win the election, as…
A remarkable film that gleams with mastery
What a relief it was to see Parallel Mothers the new film by Pedro Almodóvar. There was the tediousness and…
Archangel of Italian film
Like yesterday, there’s the memory of William Weaver, the great translator from the Italian of Umberto Eco’s The Name of…
Mighty and majestic
There is nothing like a ghastly war, an inscrutable election and a great rush of entertainment high and low to…
A darkened stage lights up
An American in Paris was always a stage musical waiting to happen even though it is immemorially associated with Gene…
Bitter harvest – how Ukraine’s wheat has always been coveted
Publishers love books with ambitious subtitles such as ‘How Bubblegum Made the Modern World’, and this one’s, about American wheat…
Stewart Brand: man of ideas and infuriating contrarian
In his 2005 book What The Dormouse Said John Markoff traced the roots of the personal computer industry to the…
Will there ever be a reliable lie detector?
For as long as we have been human we have looked for some way of telling when we are being…
Arnold Bennett’s success made him loathed by other writers
Virginia Woolf admitted to her journal: ‘I haven’t that reality gift.’ Her contemporary Arnold Bennett had it in spades. He…
Four difficult women who fought to preserve the English countryside
One thing that Covid lockdown made us appreciate was the importance of being outdoors. When we were finally allowed into…
Mismatched from the start: One Day I Shall Astonish the World, by Nina Stibbe, reviewed
First the bad news: Nina Stibbe’s new novel does not feature Lizzie Vogel, the engaging narrator of the trilogy that…
Does knotted string constitute ‘writing’?
What particularly excites Silvia Ferrara, the author of The Greatest Invention, is not language per se but writing – that…
How Britain was misled over Europe for 60 years
Just as one is inclined to believe Carlyle’s point that the history of the world is but the biography of…
