Is America overstimulated?
The last thing anyone would accuse Joe Biden of is being overstimulated. But the Senate’s rapid approval of his pandemic…
What can Laurence Fox hope to achieve with his bid for London mayor?
As if the politics of the Western world wasn’t well past parody already, this weekend sees Laurence Fox throwing his…
Why is the Pope trolling Traditional Catholics?
In Rome in October 2019 a young traditional or ‘Trad’ Catholic man grabbed several small Amazonian ‘mother earth’ statues from a church near the Vatican and threw them into the River Tiber. The five small wooden statues had…
What does Belarus’s opposition leader want?
There is an assumption that those fighting tyranny must instead want Western-style democracy, that the arc of history bends towards…
The big state won’t save our post-Covid world
The big state is back. The Budget puts Britain on a path to having the highest tax levels since the…
The Brownshirts have gone digital and they’ve cancelled Grandpa
The Brownshirts are back and this time they’re digital, best exemplified on 18 February when 22-year-old student activist Momoko Nojo…
Writers block
Was it Snoopy who said Being-A-Writer means never having to complete your novel? I’ve been thinking a lot about being…
The ABC wants to redefine ‘paedophilia’ for the sake of sensitivity?
The problem with so-called Progressives is that the very term they use to describe themselves begs a question that they…
Presumed innocent
Scott Morrison has famously declared that he has no time for fighting the culture wars and that ‘free speech never…
Australian notes
Smiling Prince of Victoria Even in these authoritarian times, life can still be unpredictable. I was in Melbourne recently and,…
Re-thinking Covid-19
It’s time to recognise the destruction caused by the politicisation of the virus
Turning conservatives into sub-humans
The Left, aided by the media, has embarked upon a sinister crusade
Christopher Plummer
A few weeks ago that great Canadian actor Christopher Plummer died. Everyone knows him as Captain Von Trapp opposite Julie…
Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London
Saint Zenobius was a Florentine nobleman who was converted to Christianity and baptised as an adult, ultimately becoming the first…
Aussie Life
If you asked a roomful of Poms to list Winston Churchill’s greatest achievements, few would put ‘introducing the minimum wage’…
Trump: best yet to come (part 2)
The question of legitimacy clouds the Biden and Harris administration
Aussie Language
The expression ‘unconscious bias’ is back in the headlines. First came the good news that Oxford’s Somerville college had rescinded…
The kids are not alright
Raya and the Last Dragon has everything you might want nowadays from a major Disney film — feisty kick-ass heroine,…
