The Uber confessional
If you ever wondered why the Catholic Church guards the sanctity of the confessional so zealously than you need look…
China, red in tooth and claw
One of the photographs in Clive Hamilton’s ground-breaking expose ‘Silent Invasion China’s influence in Australia is of ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian…
Malcolm Turnbull is right on one thing
A stopped clock is right twice a day. Malcolm Turnbull? Well, he had some very good things to say about…
Julia Gillard’s gender facepalm
Julia Gillard has said she played the gender card all wrong. Good news, you may think? Most intelligent, cognisant adults…
Universities need charters of intellectual freedom
The latest politically correct madness at the University of Sydney — gender, race, sexuality, and class background quotas at the nation’s…
What crisis of conservatism?
Last month I attended The Australian’s ‘Big Voices on Big Issues’ panel discussion in Melbourne. Senior columnists Janet Albrechtson and…
Stand by for the Cultural Revolution 2.0
To the left, a slippery slope is not a logical device, it’s their business model. Just in from (where else?)…
To the promised land
It’s fifty years since Martin Luther King Jnr stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and received…
Their ABC’s privilege propaganda pratfalls
Last week, the ABC has decided to close down its Facebook page for its children channel ABC Me, after it…
Do Trump’s gut feelings beat the tenets of the left?
One has to admire Donald Trump’s gall. Against the best economic advice that the experts could give, he went and…
Do ice cream sales increase shark attacks?
Labor MP Andrew Leigh’s study on data around effective company tax rates and employment shows incomplete analysis that mistakes correlation for…
Diversity is not a strength
Possibly the greatest myth propagated by modern Western culture is that diversity is an essential ingredient for a successfully-integrated, progressive…
Why borders exist – and matter
No matter how much I try I can’t get my head around the common leftist (and libertarian) delusion that national…
Their ABC’s anti-religious hypocrisy
It’s a bit rich for Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, having spent the previous twelve months conducting a special ‘investigation’…
Is it Monash or Marxist University?
Monash University, the first Australian university to introduce trigger warnings, appropriately begins their “#CHANGEIT” advertising campaign by declaring “SOME OF…
Want to fix big government? Ban public sector workers from voting
The American revolutionaries claimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny”. In other words, taxing people, while denying them the vote,…
What colour is your Jesus?
It’s that time of the year again (Christmas or Easter) for someone out there to come out and say something…
Theresa May has shown Putin that the West can still unite
After Britain voted to leave the European Union, there was much mistaken talk about how it might also move away…
Portrait of the week: 23 countries back Britain by expelling Russian diplomats
Home ‘We recognise that anti-Semitism has occurred in pockets within the Labour Party,’ Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, said. ‘I…
Tristram Hunt’s diary: Work and play on the Persian Gulf
On the gently lapping shores of the Persian Gulf, in the steely shadow of the Burj Khalifa, I bump into…
German manoeuvres
From ‘The great battle’, 30 March 1918: Since our last issue by far the greatest battle of the war has…
How do you make a cricket ball swing?
Not cricket The Australian cricket captain Steve Smith was banned for a match and fined his match fee after a…
At last, Labour’s anti-Semitism has caught up with Corbyn
At last Jeremy Corbyn is being made to pay a price for Labour’s anti-Semitism under his leadership. It has now, for…
What will it take for Labour MPs to act against Corbyn?
One of the mistakes Theresa May made in calling an early election was not anticipating the effect it would have…
All was calm at the elephant safari camp. Then the river began to roar…
When Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, ejected from the aeroplane he was flying solo to Scotland, he parachuted to the ground…
