Supporting Ms Deves
Supporting women in sport is a winner for Morrison
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and ex-Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott are right to support Katherine Deves, the Liberal…
Frivolous games or serious politics?
How a war changes things… It was only a few short months ago that Boris Johnson’s prime ministership looked distinctly…
Steering clear of the WorkChoices-IR trap
Calls by ‘big end of towners’ for industrial relations reforms amount to little more than kicking election campaign goals for the union…
'Blessed' or a bigot?
Like the Prime Minister, I’m blessed to have healthy children. And if you believe senior Labor politicians, that makes me…
Albanese is riding solo
With around a month left before the federal election, Anthony Albanese finds himself in a similar position that Prime Minister…
Why I stand shoulder to shoulder with Deves
The death threats that Katherine Deves is now receiving are a direct result of the corrupted journalism that is performed in this…
So, you want a federal corruption watchdog?
What constitutes corruption for a watchdog? Merriam-Webster Definition of corruption 1a: dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as…
The fertility paradox – poverty vs prosperity
The world population had risen from 2.5 billion in 1950, to 6 billion in 2000, and now sits at over…
Olaf Scholz is becoming Putin’s most valuable ally
If you think that Boris Johnson’s parties in Downing Street constitute a serious matter of state, you might want to…
Can the Queen's Jubilee spark a royal recovery?
I don’t know. Three words rarely uttered by commentators seeking a paid berth on a television studio sofa or a…
What people get wrong about fusionism
To suggest that the American conservative philosophy of fusionism was a mistake is often to betray one’s confusion about the…
Macron vs Le Pen debate: le verdict
Who won Wednesday night’s debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen depends on who is doing the scoring. In…
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…
Sweet cents of Musk
Who amongst us can fail to be at least a little bit excited by the woodsy, earthy scent of musk…
What does China know about MH370?
Australia deserves some credit for its role in the search for missing Malaysian airline MH370. It was a flight connected…
Butler re-heats Rudd’s thought bubble
One of the problems of Labor’s strategy of running with a small target is that there isn’t much to talk…
Luvvies guide to defining a woman
Should someone who cannot define a woman be the nation’s top health bureaucrat? ‘Balls’, said the Queen. ‘If I had…
France’s choice between bad and terrible
So often Western democracies offer awful electoral choices. Boris Johnson for example offers a woeful record on border protection (let’s…
A national scandal
For nine years Coalition governments have tolerated the national broadcaster’s defiant indifference to its charter and editorial policies. For nine…
The leper vote
Like the Grim Reaper, the spectre of Covid’s warped vaccines is stalking the major parties in the Australian federal election.…
Is Albo another Biden?
The 2022 election, closely monitored by criminals, domestic and international, could be one of the most important in Australian history.…
A peculiar backwards mutation
It’s not hard to sympathise with Christopher Allen’s recent column in the Review section of the Australian decrying the juxtaposition…
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…
The murky history of Germany’s top family businesses
It was a clear cold morning in January 1936 when Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler arrived at the luxurious Regina Palast Hotel…
The case of the ‘Hay Poisoner’ inspired many a cosy murder mystery
The case of the retired major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor hanged in 1922 for killing his wife Katharine…
We must all become Doctor Dolittles and listen to the wisdom of animals
One day the writer and artist James Bridle rented a hatchback, taped a smartphone to the steering wheel and installed…
Michel Houellebecq may be honoured by the French establishment, but he’s no fan of Europe
For many years, Michel Houellebecq was patronised by the French literary establishment as an upstart, what with his background in…
Memory test: The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan, reviewed
On page 231 of The Candy House, a sequel – no, a ‘sibling’ says Jennifer Egan – to the Pulitzer…
A tale of forbidden love: Trespasses, by Louise Kennedy, reviewed
Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winning recent film Belfast chronicles the travails of a Protestant family amid sectarian conflict in 1969. Louise Kennedy’s…
Nymphomaniac, fearless campaigner, alcoholic – Nancy Cunard was all this and more
The title of Anne de Courcy’s riveting new book might give the impression that Nancy Cunard had no more than…
Accusations of racism have lost all meaning
The War on the West is Douglas Murray’s latest blast against loony left wokery, chiefly in the areas of race…