Christopher Akehurst

Leunig – yawn – has done his dash

1 November 2021 4:06 pm

The Melbourne Age’s declining band of readers are being deprived of the principal reason many of them buy the paper, its veteran…

The wages of terror

10 June 2017 9:00 am

The murderous, cowardly and unprovoked Muslim attacks on the West continue, the war for the Caliphate kills more innocents, but…

Snowflake warriors

20 May 2017 9:00 am

Australia’s hopes rest in its youth, or so people used to say in the expectation that rising generations would build…

Steal their clothes

25 February 2017 9:00 am

The Left now thinks it’s nailed one of the most irritating thorns in its flesh, the flamboyant conservative polemicist Milo…

Steal their clothes

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

The Left now thinks it’s nailed one of the most irritating thorns in its flesh, the flamboyant conservative polemicist Milo…

Lefty laughs

28 January 2017 9:00 am

‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…

Lefty laughs

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…

Ruing the day

21 January 2017 9:00 am

Here comes Australia Day again and with it, like professional wailers preceding a Sicilian funeral, the chorus of media penitents…

Ruing the day

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

Here comes Australia Day again and with it, like professional wailers preceding a Sicilian funeral, the chorus of media penitents…

Playing with holy fire

7 January 2017 9:00 am

In the nearly four years since he was elected, Pope Francis I has achieved the singular distinction of bringing the…

Playing with holy fire

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

In the nearly four years since he was elected, Pope Francis I has achieved the singular distinction of bringing the…

Love and marriage

10 December 2016 9:00 am

The Fairfax-reading, ABC-viewing middle classes are getting rattled. In Victoria, 2,400 extra police officers are to be employed to help…

Love and marriage

8 December 2016 3:00 pm

The Fairfax-reading, ABC-viewing middle classes are getting rattled. In Victoria, 2,400 extra police officers are to be employed to help…

Throwing a tanderrum

24 September 2016 9:00 am

Connoisseurs of our sunburnt country’s timeless heritage have a treat in store next month. An indigenous tanderrum, or ceremonial mass…

Power to the plebiscite

17 September 2016 9:00 am

Malcolm Turnbull’s shilly-shallying before deciding to go ahead with the gay ‘marriage’ plebiscite is what we have come to expect…

Pop go the Swivel-Eyed Loons

2 July 2016 9:00 am

To the conventional leftish mind, the European Union is one of those sacred institutions handed down as though from on…