A few things immediately sprang to my mind this morning as I awoke to my city surrounded by rings of…

“Off the pigs!” OK, I confess: back in my wild youth, this was an oft-heard phrase rolling off my lips.…

Over the course of just a few days we have had all sorts of conflicting messages concerning the plan to…

If this latest case of over-the-top moonbattery from Danandrewstan does not alarm you, I am not sure what will: A 17-year-old learner…

On Sunday Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a set of stringent measures to keep coronavirus in check, including travel restrictions,…

We have come to the place where our supposed love for the planet means that we must now hate people.…

Sometimes all you can do is let them speak — and say nothing in reply. Just one of the memorable…

The phrase “Liberalism is a mental disorder” can be dismissed as simply a conservative smear. But as the current election…

Here is a truth you can bank on: the sexual revolutionaries never eat nor sleep, but are ever on the…

As an American living in Australia, it can be hard going at times – especially now. No sumptuous turkey dinner…

For as long as socialism has been around, there have been critics of it. And rightly so. As Ronald Reagan…

Remember when you were young and driving around the country on lengthy trips? Often you would alleviate the boredom by…

Some of the more elderly amongst us will know that exactly 50 years ago we had an event that defined…

Honest question: just how much is Trump paying the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination? One is hard-pressed to come…

C S Lewis once observed that when you are going in the wrong direction, the thing to do is go…

It was the nineteenth century German poet Heinrich Heine who once said, “Wherever they burn books they will also, in…

Sometimes you wake up and wonder, “Am I in the correct century?” “Am I in the right country?” You look…

American social commentator Dennis Prager nailed it when he said this: “Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a…

Seventy-five years ago some 150,000 troops landed on French beaches to roll back the Nazi menace. On the very first…

It was the noted English historian Paul Johnson who once wrote: “The study of history is a powerful antidote to…

With the cause of the blaze that took down much of Notre Dame still uncertain (accident, arson, terrorism?), many commentators…

When I checked my news feed this morning it was filled with story after story about radical vegans causing mischief…

Hollywood loves a good disaster. Some of the greatest box-office hits have featured frightening apocalyptic scenarios in which planet earth…

Oxymorons abound, such as ‘Arab unity,’ or ‘leftist logic’. But one obvious candidate which just will not go away is…

Theologians come in all sorts of strange packages nowadays. No more bearded old guys in stuffy booklined offices it seems.…