Germany’s schizoid approach to Israel
One would have thought that, for certain historical reasons, Germany today would show extra-sensitivity in avoiding appearances of anti-Semitism. However,…
One-way hate speech
Britain is allowing political correctness, or fear of political incorrectness, increasingly to destroy its civil liberties and silence freedom of…
Churchill’s shameful heirs
It would be difficult to imagine a more cowardly and contemptible action, or one heavier with the promise of long-term…
Hollow man of the Left
There are two types of people in political parties. One type joins a party because he or she thinks that…
That Jewish problem
I recently wrote of anti-Semitism in the US Presbyterian Church. It would, however, be wrong to suggest this is an…
Anti-‘Zionism’, or just plain old…?
Anti-‘Zionism’ seems to be bustin’ out all over. The Presbyterian Church USA, has become one of the more noisome sinks…
Xena madness
For sheer grotesquerie, a recent push for the feminisation of the Australian Army would be hard to beat. Former General…
What Rotherham means
The revelations of unhindered Muslim sex-trafficking of thousands of young girls in British towns, including Rotherham, Rochdale and Oxford, are…
Amnesty, morally corrupted?
When Amnesty International concerned itself with campaigning on behalf of individual and identifiable political prisoners of regimes of whatever political…
Feeling Carr-sick
What gives with Bob Carr? Why, for that matter, has so much of the Left in the democratic world turned…
Whatever happened to conservation?
When I was a pre-schooler my mother enrolled me in the WA Junior Naturalists’ Club. We met in a basement…
Britain gagged
When emails from the group Britain First began turning up in my inbox, I took it for granted that it…
The Unitary Republic
Should Australia become a republic, it will greatly damage, and possibly destroy, the independence of the States, making nation-wide experiments…
Balhatchet job
Just when you think the cowardice of those highly-placed in the West (with the exceptions of Trump and Netanyahu) can…
Strong men armed?
G. K. Chesterton wrote in The Everlasting Man that Christianity has died many times but always somehow – miraculously –…
In the dark
When I was very young (it must have been before I was sent to boarding school at the age of…
A ruined life in the one-way war
Adam Smith warned on the criminalising of emotions – hate crimes – in the Theory af Moral Sentiments, published in…
The new censorship
One thing thoughtful members of my generation were, I think, unquestioning about was this: democratic West Germany had thoroughly repudiated…
The Multiculti cult
While it is said that a really bad idea never quite goes away, we could surely try to make multiculturalism…
Chesterton’s prophesy
To step back and take a broad view of history is to see a constant and almost incessant Muslim onslaught…
The war we don’t know how to fight
One day, perhaps before it is too late, Turnbull, Brandis, Shorten and co. and their fellow members of the political…
The great, needless Liberal fault line
One thing the same-sex marriage debate has done, for better or worse, is to highlight the deep differences within Australia’s…
Turnbull, SSM and the culture wars
In his capacity as an individual, Malcolm Turnbull has just as much right to an opinion on same-sex marriage as…
Burqas and waffle
Whatever else may be said about her, Pauline Hanson’s action in wearing a burqa into the Senate, despite the sobbing…
Economical with… free speech
The Spycatcher trial established Malcolm Turnbull’s reputation at the time as a brilliant champion of free speech. Personally, reviewing a…
