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Religious freedom bill misses heart of the problem

The big lie of the Yes campaign for same-sex marriage was that no one else’s freedoms would be messed with.  It’s…

20 Nov 2021

Bravo to the Rittenhouse jury

How disingenuous can one 79-year-old mentally enfeebled President be? Here is Biden’s reaction to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict:  While the…

20 Nov 2021

Braveheart?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday discovered his inner Braveheart. “Sons of Australia. I am Scott Morrison,” he told a hastily…

19 Nov 2021

What on earth is going on in South Australia?

Adelaide was roiled this week by the spectacle of Deputy Premier and Attorney-General, Vickie Chapman, refusing to stand down after…

19 Nov 2021

Adem Somyurek vs Daniel Andrews: don’t laugh, this isn’t funny

Forget House of Cards. This is more like that season of Dallas that turned out to be a dream. The…

19 Nov 2021

Please accept my resignation from the Church with immediate effect

Dear Sir/Madam/Whomever it may concern, I write as, until now, a life-long communicant of the Church of England, or whatever…

18 Nov 2021

How the green blob runs on hypocrisy

The climate change world runs on hypocrisy, from presidents and prime ministers to virtue-signalling billionaires and multinationals, and pious individuals.…

18 Nov 2021

Downfall?

Since Covid hit, Daniel Andrews has been perched atop his throne, ruling Victoria with an iron fist. There has been…

18 Nov 2021

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Afghanistan is starving to death and there is nothing the West can do

The scale of the human tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan is hard to comprehend. The economy has collapsed, some 20 million…

20 Nov 2021

How gang warfare took over Sweden’s streets

Nils Grönberg was 19 years old when he was shot and killed: one bullet to his chest and one to…

20 Nov 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse and the failure of the American state

Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent. We knew that anyway, but the simple fact of something being true in no way guarantees…

20 Nov 2021

The rise of Indian cancel culture

In 1975, India’s prime minister Indira Gandhi suspended democracy. The so-called ‘Emergency’ was largely of her own making, giving her…

20 Nov 2021

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Kiwi Life

A government in jackboots A recent headline echoes the current mood of this now fed-up country, with Sir Russell Coutts,…

13 Nov 2021

He Puapua?

Now why on earth why would the New Zealand government, dominated by the far-left Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, produce a…

9 Nov 2021

Kiwi notes

Our tired democracy teeters When is enough? When Aucklanders recently heard the seemingly interminable lockdown which the Prime Minister Jacinda…

6 Nov 2021

Kiwi Life

Lorde vs Lana People who live in glass houses really shouldn’t get changed with the lights on. Doubly so, one…

30 Oct 2021

Musings on our universities

I made a bad mistake this past weekend. I got to reading a few articles on the state of universities…

20 Nov 2021

Herding sheeple onto the vaccine treadmill

‘We want to see your smiles; masks are optional’ read a sign in Adam Creighton’s hotel in Miami, Florida. At…

20 Nov 2021

Farmers, watch out!

There was a time when Australians held farmers in high regard. They admired their hard work, sympathised with their struggles…

20 Nov 2021

Japan, Taiwan and the threat of Xi Jinping

The Australian media has been awash with reports of the significant victory by Republican Glenn Youngkin over incumbent Democrat Terry…

20 Nov 2021

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people

Former United States wrestling coach, Mark Riptoe said, strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful…

20 Nov 2021

Cash levels rising

Samoan Brianna Fruen, 23, was turned into a climate activist by her school teacher and 350.org when she was 11.…

20 Nov 2021

Persecution & Pauline conversions

The persecution of Dr Mark Hobart by the Victorian Department of Health is hardly surprising. Throughout the pandemic he has…

20 Nov 2021

Tweedledum Tweedledee politicians tarnish the nation

Having the honour of addressing a citizenship ceremony a few years ago, I told the new citizens that the country…

20 Nov 2021

Don’t forget the motor city

Detroit is the only American city where I always felt uneasy. Even the cops look at you as if you…

20 Nov 2021

Sean Connery

Anyone who cares about the theatre should rush to see Kendall Feaver’s Wherever She Wanders which Griffin Theatre Company is…

20 Nov 2021

Bert Newton

And so the world finally bestirs itself in the direction of going out because it’s now allowable. A young millennial…

13 Nov 2021

The Crucible

Sometimes you think the Apocalypse doesn’t go away. It just takes new and frightful forms. No sooner was the lockdown…

6 Nov 2021

Aussie Life

You know the royals are in trouble when a prominent member of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy writes an article suggesting…

20 Nov 2021

Aussie Language

It’s that time of the year again—when dictionaries around the world start announcing their chosen ‘Word of the Year’. First…

20 Nov 2021

How are you meant to pronounce Uranus?

I had thought there were two pronunciations of Uranus. My husband, still capable of distinguishing the anatomical from the planetary,…

20 Nov 2021

The key to happiness? Getting behind the wheel

A friend of mine recently visited a company in Europe which plans to manufacture human-carrying, pilotless drones. These would be…

20 Nov 2021

How Shane MacGowan became Ireland’s prodigal son

I once stood on a Dublin street with Shane MacGowan and watched little old ladies who can’t ever have been…

20 Nov 2021

How fears of popery led to a century of turmoil in ‘the land of fallen angels’

Stuart England did not do its anti-Catholicism by halves. In the late 1670s and early 1680s, a popular feature of…

20 Nov 2021

Were the Ottoman Turks as European as they thought themselves?

This is the best of times to be writing history, since so much of what has been taken for granted,…

20 Nov 2021

More penny dreadful than Dickensian: Lily, by Rose Tremain, reviewed

Rose Tremain’s 15th novel begins with a favoured schmaltzy image of high Victoriana: it is a night (if not dark…

20 Nov 2021

BOOKS OF THE YEAR II — a further selection of the books chosen by our regular reviewers

Jonathan Sumption The reputation of Sir Edward Grey, Britain’s foreign secretary from 1905 to 1916, has never recovered from the…

20 Nov 2021

The true superhero is Douglas Wolk – who has read through 27,000 Marvel comics

In March 1963, the Fantastic Four had a fractious encounter with Spider-Man and a dust-up with the Hulk — a…

20 Nov 2021

Elephants walk on tiptoes — but can they dance? This year’s stocking-fillers explore such puzzles

It’s almost a shock to admit it, but this year’s gift books aren’t bad at all. It’s even possible that,…

20 Nov 2021

It’s a wonder any of our great country houses survived the 20th century

One of Adrian Tinniswood’s recent books, The Long Weekend, is a portrait of country house life in the interwar years.…

20 Nov 2021