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Labor won in the West for all the worst reasons

Sometime towards the end of 2008, former Prime Minister John Howard came to Perth to give a speech on human…

16 Mar 2021

No wonder ScoMo’s cautious

“We’ve been on narrow paths before, colleagues, and we’ve walked them together,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told the joint Coalition…

Victorian Liberal MPs: you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things

Earlier today, a motion to spill the Victorian opposition leadership of Michael O’Brien failed to get the numbers after challenger…

16 Mar 2021

How singer Sam Smith cancelled himself

In a classic case of unintended consequences, non-binary singer Sam Smith will find himself neither here nor there when awards…

16 Mar 2021

Cancel culture and the left’s long march

Last week Manchester University in Britain published a ‘Guide to Inclusive Language’ that proves, once again, how successful the cultural-left…

16 Mar 2021

The war on ‘normal’

The long arm of cancel culture now threatens to reach over the shower screen to police any politically-incorrect thoughts we have as…

15 Mar 2021

March of anger is a political power play, nothing more

Today, thousands of people took part in 40 planned rallies across Australia, supposedly to demand action on “violence against women”.   But, here’s the…

15 Mar 2021

Why did Cormann get the top job at the OECD? His track record shows he won’t upset woke globalists

Having gone to considerable lengths in lobbying for one of our very own, former finance minister Mathias Cormann, to become…

15 Mar 2021

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We shouldn’t forget the horrific crimes of Isis returnees

Summer 2015. A five-year-old girl is chained up and left outside in the desert sun in Fallujah, Iraq – a…

16 Mar 2021

In defence of Charlie Hebdo's 'racist royals' cover

Amid the ongoing fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive Oprah interview, Charlie Hebdo seems to have done the…

16 Mar 2021

Not all Americans are on Team Meghan

The press is awash with reports of the disgust and distaste of the American public towards the UK, in particular…

16 Mar 2021

Is the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine safe? A doctor's view

One of the few positives to have come out of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the remarkable speed at which…

16 Mar 2021

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Throwing the Christian to the fembots

Following the unanimous exoneration of Cardinal George Pell by the High Court of Australia in April last year, there was…

13 Mar 2021

Where populism ain’t so popular

It has been five years since populism returned to prominence in the politics of Western democracies, yet it seems Australia’s…

13 Mar 2021

A torn and tattered patchwork quilt

In his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on 28 February, Donald Trump called for a series of…

13 Mar 2021

Josh with the dosh

Did you see all the fawning praise that followed on from the news that Australia’s GDP grew by 3.1 per…

13 Mar 2021

Albo’s hike along the Appalachian Trail

One of my favourite authors is Bill Bryson and one of my favourite books is A Walk in the Woods. …

13 Mar 2021

Tribulations of a woke princess

After a bombshell interview with the Duchess and Duke of Sussex, watched by millions in America and throughout the Commonwealth,…

13 Mar 2021

The measure of a man

As we watch so many cherished liberties being swept away on a tidal wave of identity politics and Covid lockdowns,…

13 Mar 2021

Sacred sites – a warning to us all

They are at it again. Another group of First Nations people is trying to close a part of a national…

13 Mar 2021

Britney Spears

The arts world in general —and with it theatre in particular— is opening up. Not only is the Botticelli to…

13 Mar 2021

Johannes Fritzsch

It is hard to imagine a city with a richer cultural history than Dresden or a better place for a…

13 Mar 2021

Christopher Plummer

A few weeks ago that great Canadian actor Christopher Plummer died. Everyone knows him as Captain Von Trapp opposite Julie…

6 Mar 2021

Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London

Saint Zenobius was a Florentine nobleman who was converted to Christianity and baptised as an adult, ultimately becoming the first…

6 Mar 2021

Kiwi Life

Although it probably won’t, the recent kerfuffle over the brilliant works of Dr Seuss and other creators of children’s books…

13 Mar 2021

Language

Is it just me, or have others noticed that heterosexual couples have lost access to the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’?…

13 Mar 2021

Dear Mary: What should my wife and I do with the risque photos we took in our youth?

Q. I hesitate to bring you this problem, but I suspect it is not that uncommon. Early in our very…

13 Mar 2021

Here’s a clue: we should all be doing cryptic crosswords

I was once asked by a previous editor of the Timeshow to increase sales of the paper. I was slightly…

13 Mar 2021

Cashing in on Covid: the traders who thrive on a crisis

When we think of those lurching moments last spring when it became clear that much of the world, not just…

13 Mar 2021

Bright and beautiful: Double Blind, by Edward St Aubyn, reviewed

Edward St Aubyn’s ‘Patrick Melrose’ novels were loosely autobiographical renderings of the author’s harrowing, rarefied, drug-sozzled existence. Despite their subject…

13 Mar 2021

Two for the road: We Are Not in the World, by Conor O’Callaghan, reviewed

A father and his estranged 20-year-old daughter set off across France, sharing the driver’s cabin of a long-haul truck. This…

13 Mar 2021

One great Chinese puzzle remains its cuisine

A truth that ought to be universally acknowledged is that Chinese food, while much loved, is underappreciated. China certainly has…

13 Mar 2021

Bird migration is no longer a mystery — but it will always seem a miracle

Bird migration was once one of those unassailable mysteries that had baffled humankind since Aristotle. A strange hypothesis, genuinely advanced…

13 Mar 2021

The odd couple: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

On a shard of paper, some time in the bleak mid-1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporated a favourite line from one…

13 Mar 2021

Women of the streets: Hot Stew, by Fiona Mozley, reviewed

For a novel set partly in a Soho brothel, Hot Stew is an oddly bloodless affair. Tawdry characters drift in…

13 Mar 2021

Peru’s beauty has been a real curse

As the planet gets more and more ravaged, the mind can begin to glaze over at the cumulative general statistics…

13 Mar 2021