On the Canadian disease of ‘liberalism’ and religious complicity
The American satirist and libertarian commentator P. J. O’Rourke, who passed away this week, once said this: ‘At the core…
On Sage’s Covid models
In the confusion that has arisen from the demonstrable inability of a certain type of mathematical model to predict the…
What is so enraging about a group of white men?
Pity the poor 41 Club. The last time an image of a group of men eating dinner caused this much…
The foie gras and fur ban was never really about animal suffering
Well, too bad Carrie and Zac. It looks like the government is going to drop its commitment to banning imports…
Macron’s energy intervention has seriously backfired
He intervened decisively. He showed the ability of the state to make a difference. And he demonstrated that greedy, self-interested…
How schools are captured by ideological institutions
This week, Nadeem Zahawi told teachers that they have ‘an important role in preparing children and young people for life…
Is Rishi Sunak any good at politics?
Is Rishi Sunak any good at politics? In recent days Labour sources have been putting it about that they no…
Biden is ‘convinced’ Putin will invade Ukraine. Is Putin?
The only thing more sombre than President Joe Biden’s tone at his press conference on Friday afternoon was his funereal…
Reason or belief – fact or fiction?
A British doctor who was dismissed from his government employment for not referring to a transgender, six-foot-tall, bearded man as…
Western Australians deserve a real ‘liberal’ alternative
As Western Australia prepares to commemorate two years of deliberate isolation from the federation and the world, it is not…
ScoMo’s four feathers
As the two sides of politics marshal their forces and prepare to do battle in polling booths across the nation…
Euro notes
Putin’s poker game If the latest warnings of a Russian invasion of Ukraine prove right, you’ll be reading this as…
Canada’s truckers won’t truck it anymore
Dissent is a defining attribute of democracy, not a threat to it
Australian notes
The liberty that dare not speak its name Lord Alfred Douglas, young lover of the great Oscar Wilde, wrote a…
Die Walküre
Chesterton said – and the poet Peter Porter loved to repeat – that if a thing was worth doing it…
Aussie Life
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is a geological epoch, during which not just goalposts…
Aussie Language
Writing in the Daily Telegraph James Morrow referred to something called a preference cascade which he said was a term…
