Four freedoms
Is it time for Australia to legislate for a minimalist bill of rights? Now, before you scream ‘Not as long…
Diary
Even in parliament, fashions change. I am not referring to the width of lapels, the length of dresses, the style…
Blainey’s blarney
Geoffrey Blainey, Australia’s beloved history elder, has written 40 books and his terms like ‘tyranny of distance’ have pervaded our…
True leadership personified
Although Napoleon said that every soldier carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, great leaders are rare. Since Churchill, the…
CPAC packed out
Some gags you can’t get enough of, and the suggestion by Mark Latham and others that the astonishing success of…
NSW botches abortion
‘The sound of men arguing over our personal reproductive health choices hurts my ears and it offends my very core,’…
Australian letters
Please explain Sir: The crux of manmade CO2 causing climate change rests on being able to explain the thermodynamics of…
Joe Biden isn’t ‘gaffe-prone’, he’s losing his mind
‘Gaffe?’ Who invented this nonsensical term? Its only common usage seems to be among political journalists and pundits, as a…
Trump takes New Hampshire
‘They say he’s not going to win re-election,’ blurted a tank top-wearing twenty-something as he scanned the crowd outside SNHU…
Nightmare feminism
#MeToo is like a malignant cancer that multiplies and spreads. It attacks the white blood cells. It attacks the immune…
Boris Johnson is the EU’s nemesis. But could he be Europe’s saviour?
It is a curious and rather moving experience to see someone you have known for thirty-five years standing in front…
It’s gender inequality – but not like you’ve seen it
A team of researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex have produced a new way of measuring…
What the world can learn from Australia’s immigration policy
It’s often said that it does not matter if you are a slow learner, so long as you are able…
Alexander Waugh is the Brexit party’s most illustrious candidate
At the next General Election, the lucky constituents of Bridgwater and West Somerset will find an illustrious name on their…
EXCLUSIVE: After Sydney – Raheem Kassam on stabbing the messenger
If Kristina Keneally and her Labor cohorts were to be believed, it would not have been “Allahu akbar” the stabber…
What’s woke this week
I’ve been away from the world of woke for a while and it’s depressing to see just how well it’s…
Why October 10th is Boris Johnson’s best bet for a snap election
Boris Johnson thrives on risk. His political life so far has consisted of a succession of gambles that have paid…
Planes, trains and Greta Thunberg
This is what the Steve Martin/John Candy classic comedy would be like if remade by Greta Thunberg. In the Swedish version,…
Is it time for some 2020 Democrats to put party over country?
Would the Democrats be better off losing the presidency in 2020 and winning the Senate? If you think that the…
EXCLUSIVE: Late term abortion – not as rare as the choice lobby want you to believe
Many proponents of the NSW ‘Reproductive Rights’ Bill—which allows abortion up until birth—are defending the legislation by saying that late-term…
Why Boris Johnson needs an election to deliver Brexit
What more-or-less all Tory MPs seem to have missed is that Philip Hammond, the ex-chancellor who has become the anti-no-deal…
Memo to the ABC: class warfare doesn’t improve schools
An ABC News investigation has lifted the lid on the claimed ‘great education divide’ in Australian schools. This time, rather…
The real reason Corbynites turned on Caroline Lucas and the Greens
Caroline Lucas’s plan for an all-female emergency Cabinet to stop a no-deal Brexit is a fantasy, with no prospect of success.…
Julie Bishop: all advice and no mea culpas
Julie Bishop will go down in history as one of the greats of the Liberal Party for a variety of…
Woodstock and the rise and fall of the Age of Aquarius
Some of the more elderly amongst us will know that exactly 50 years ago we had an event that defined…
