Arthur Chrenkoff

An undiplomatic incident in a Canberra restaurant? Enough to get those delicate maiden aunts from the ABC and Fairfax holding…

A friend and a reader from the United States, Chuck, has sent me this informative chart and asked about the…

Last week, country-turned-pop diva Taylor Swift finally broke her famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) silence on all things…

As a member of a rather sizeable group of Australians who don’t live in Sydney and are not precious and…

No, this isn’t like The Sun, discovering via ouija board before the 1987 British general election that Joseph Stalin intended…

This morning over breakfast, my eight-year-old said to me: “How can we live in a world where survivors’ stories are…

On September 30 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour…

While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh, whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was and the ramblings of…

Trump Derangement Syndrome is flourishing on the bestseller lists – Bob Woodward’s Fear, anyone – but not so much on the…

You all know of course by now that you can’t appropriate other cultures’ artefacts, but did you know you also can’t…

How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you…

It seems that the “young Muslim refugee woman with head covered who bags her adopted country and gets lionised for…

Is it still cultural appropriation when we do it to the people responsible for World Wars I and II? Whatever: Oktoberfest,…

Oh, not to be young and Russian in Washington DC. Politico reports: Nothing prepared the young Russians of Washington for the wintry…

“Russiagate” has its genesis in a strange meeting in London in May 2016 between the then junior policy adviser on…

It’s good to see that Marise Payne has stepped into Julie Bishop’s shoes so deftly and is now humouring the…

With all those bedroom eyes, duckfaces and cleavages splattered all over Instagram, Facebook and other social media — not to…

Radical feminism and radical Islam both agree that men have no self-control and women should be kept cloistered and separated…

Everything is racist nowadays, so you won’t be surprised to discover that your sexual preferences and physical attractions may well be…

On Saturday Donald Trump sent a congratulatory tweet to new Prime Minister Scott Morrison: This innocuous and pleasant message has…

In a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has…

China is looking to dominate the American market in yet another sector: WMDOLL, based in China’s southeastern Guangdong province, develop AI-powered…

Modern law enforcement seems to be increasingly as much about policing language as policing crime. Some cynics might say more…

Facebook’s drive towards absolute transparency – of its users’ information, of course, not of Facebook itself – continues apace: Anyone who…

Three stories over the past few days should have been huge. Instead, two of them made just a passing blip…