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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…

17 Nov 2020

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…

17 Nov 2020

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…

17 Nov 2020

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…

17 Nov 2020

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…

16 Nov 2020

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…

16 Nov 2020

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…

16 Nov 2020

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…

17 Nov 2020

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…

17 Nov 2020

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…

17 Nov 2020

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,…

17 Nov 2020

May I quota you?

What would you call a glass ceiling that blocks men from career advancement? A lipstick ceiling? Whatever, it exists, even…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

Peace nixed

A Biden administration is likely to implement a significant shift in US policy concerning Israel and the Middle East broadly.…

14 Nov 2020

Business/Robbery etc.

Treasury plans to fill the RBA’s interest rate vacuum Is it cause for alarm, or an inevitable trend, that the…

14 Nov 2020

Flu d’état

Ross Clark explains in the Daily Mail (3 November) how Boris Johnson’s ‘experts’ have manipulated data to terrify England into…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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The Undoing

It’s a strange prospect for strange times, the young violinist Freya Franzen on the stage of Melbourne’s Concert Hall playing…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

Sean Connery

Sean Connery outlived all of them, those great British actors who came to such prominence in the early Sixties: Richard…

7 Nov 2020

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…

7 Nov 2020

Aussie Life & Language

Simon Collins A British newspaper once ran a TV ad extolling the virtues of journalistic objectivity. ‘Point of view’, which…

Where’s the slogan saying ‘Lose Weight. Stop Boozing. Survive the virus!’?

Panic at the country feed store. Panic in the horse and pony aisle. I wonder to myself: could life ever…

14 Nov 2020

I was the only Trump supporter among the olive-pickers

We bums find ourselves sought after at this time of year to lend a hand with the olive harvest. So…

14 Nov 2020

The cultural elite has a new enemy

New York Election night parties are usually dreadful affairs, with the idiot box blaring and hysterical listeners screaming out the…

14 Nov 2020

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,…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020

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…

14 Nov 2020