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The gentleman chef Anton Mosimann’s delicious collection
Anton Mosimann unlocks his safe, delicately removing the oldest known cookbook, handwritten on velum in 1516 for the Vatican’s library.…
Venezuela is finally free
A crisis that began when I was still living in Latin America a quarter of a century ago has, at…
Woke robbed the West of its artistic soul
Stranger Things reaffirms modern showrunners can’t stick the landing
Khamenei’s banners are burning in Tehran
The people of Iran have been trying to free themselves from the oppressive Islamic Republic for decades. Tonight, hundreds of…
President Maduro of Venezuela captured by US
‘The tyrant is gone. He will now – finally – face justice.’
Decline and ‘fall’ of a failed Prime Minister
The fear of the Jewish community was palpable in the lead-up to Bondi
New York is now the most idiotic city in the world
The newly elected mayor of the once-great metropolis of New York City has used his maiden speech to declare that…
Can Iran be saved from the Islamic Republic?
Traders and merchants in Tehran closed their shops in protest and demonstrated against the deteriorating economy and the plunging Iranian…
The worst-case scenario for the ordinary man in 2026
Charles Dickens opened his timeless novel, set in the era of the French Revolution, with a paradox that echoes through…
Why a Royal Commission will fail
In the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, as victims’ families and Jewish organisations demand assurances from the Australian…
Young Australians should travel instead of going to Woke universities
From Düsseldorf: On hearing that a decade’s worth of university dropouts will be awarded a qualification at a Victorian university,…
The streets of Iran are calling out the name of Reza Shah II
From the seventh of Dey, the people of Iran once again stood before bullets and batons, chanting the name of…
The Carnivalesque inversion of hierarchies in the debate over shark nets
The debate surrounding the use of shark nets in New South Wales provides a real-world example of a Carnivalesque inversion…
The Bondi massacre: honour, dignity, and the refusal to reform
In a characteristically lucid and incisive essay written in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre, Helen Pluckrose argues in Islam,…
Multiculturalism is an inherently dangerous policy
That such an evil and horrific act can be perpetuated – killing and injury so many innocent, peaceful, and law-abiding…
The four pillars of modern civilisation
When a high-energy society opts for an unreliable, expensive grid
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How Tickle v. Giggle happened
One man’s discrimination is another girl’s protection
Too many devil-worshippers in the Liberals’ broad church
Thanks to Labor’s deception, One Nation’s rise is here to stay
