NSW budget blazes the trail for post-covid economic reform
What to do for Woke-a-thon 2020
Send a postcard of barefoot Aussie cricketers supporting BLM to remote Aboriginal communities: ‘Wish you were here’. Donate your copy…
No, a backlash to the Four Corners sexism special didn’t sway the Victorian Bar elections
A medium-sized but pious and shrill twitterstorm erupted shortly after the Victorian Bar published the results of its Council election…
NSW budget blazes the trail for post-covid economic reform
New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet and the Berejiklian government should be commended for the structural reforms in yesterday’s state budget. It…
Will a Biden win put pressure on our power prices – and more – with climate demands?
Australia will face much-increased pressure to increase its greenhouse gas emissions abatement if Joe Biden is inaugurated as president on…
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…
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…
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…
Rejoining the WHO will be Joe Biden’s first mistake as president
In emails obtained by the Associated Press, the World Health Organization reveals it has recorded 65 cases of coronavirus among…
Corbyn's Labour party suspension lifted after just 19 days
Jeremy Corbyn has been readmitted into the Labour party just 19 days after he was suspended for saying that anti-Semitism…
Denmark is creating a roadmap for mandatory vaccination
Could British residents be forced to have a Covid-19 vaccine? Yesterday Health Secretary Matt Hancock refused to rule out mandatory…
Sorry Cuomo, we’re doing Thanksgiving
New York governor Andrew Cuomo took the last can of Who-hash by announcing a ban on both indoor and outdoor…
Emissions reduction targets stink
The anti-democratic sentiments of the climate change cult have been exposed again. According to them, the results of an election…
Covid and culture cringe
Culture cringe seems alive in Australia. Speaking in parliament on 27 October, Labor’s deputy leader Richard Marles made a pointed…
Dismiss dismissal dogma
Beware those who claim a monopoly on historical truth. Their goal is not enlightenment or edification, but rather the unthinking…
Living in Andrew Jacksonland
All of us living in the Anglosphere right now are living through two pretty major political shifts. Forty years ago…
The big steal
Consider this election night scenario: America and the world sit down and tune in to the vote count for the…
Apocalypse next
‘To state the obvious, we seem to be turning a pretty dark corner now,’ said Joe Biden, this week, gloom-monger-in-chief.…
Honour the brave
Why are politicians — elected public servants — so determined to run down morale in our defence forces, discourage enlistment…
May I quota you?
What would you call a glass ceiling that blocks men from career advancement? A lipstick ceiling? Whatever, it exists, even…
Billy Wilder
Slowly the world of the arts starts to take a timid step forward in plague-torn Australia. Just as alarming new…
Ernani at Teatro all Scala
The Opera is coming back! Unable to perform for nine months, the company has suffered great financial loss, forcing substantial…
The Undoing
It’s a strange prospect for strange times, the young violinist Freya Franzen on the stage of Melbourne’s Concert Hall playing…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…