Discovery channels
Bashing the BBC often becomes a popular blood sport in times of political instability, and especially if the left is…
Arms race
Like most documentaries, Britain’s Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story (BBC4, Wednesday) began by boasting about all the exclusives it would…
Beyond comprehension
The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s ‘Belief and Beyond Belief’ season is drawing to a close, without making it in any degree…
Is Le Pen really ‘far-right’?
What is ‘far-right’? With the progress of Marine Le Pen to France’s presidential run-off, the term has been liberally used…
At the cutting edge
There’s a graveyard inside Henry Marsh’s head, though you’d never guess it to look at him. There he sits in…
Divided they stand
New York As the malevolence and incoherence of the Trump administration continue to amaze, Democrats are taking heart from the…
Moths vs the middle classes
It’s not the free movement of people I spend my nights fretting about; it’s the free movement of pests. It’s…
Liberté, egalité, supériorité
The French election, of unprecedented interest, hazard and potential for violence, has been largely about who is to blame. Blame…
Ruth, Queen of Scots
Twenty years ago, Conservatism all but died in Scotland. Tony Blair’s landslide victory made Scotland, at least in terms of…
Portrait of the week
Home Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, told Theresa May after dinner with her on 26 April, ‘I’m…
The 18C fight: it’s bigger than you think
It has become a sort of trump card in debates over 18C for its defenders to ask its critics what…
The government goes after online shoppers
If there’s one thing government enjoys more than taking your money, it’s finding a convenient excuse to do it. With…
Let’s put people in charge of their own super
Imagine if your boss called you into their office to tell you they had decided who you could bank with.…
Daniel Andrews gender agenda and mythmaking
By now, I’m sure you would’ve heard the news that the Victorian Andrews government is backing a brand new “feminist…
Letters
Liverpudlian censorship Sir: I enjoyed Kelvin MacKenzie’s Diary (29 April). The obloquy thrown at him after his criticism of Everton…
What part of free speech doesn’t Liberty Victoria understand?
Liberty Victoria’s decision to reward Gillian Triggs with its annual Voltaire Award is a perfect example of the left’s perverse…
Fairfax: you’ll really miss us when we’re gone
Fairfax journalists are — gosh, how retro — out on strike for a week over job cuts. They’ve taken to…
Licensing our lives
Anyone who’s ever stepped out onto a crossing with the green light and come within a hair’s breadth of being…
Gonski 2.0 or Conski 2.0?
In a stunning political move, the government seized the Gonski high-ground yesterday by announcing Gonski 2.0, another review into how…
How a KGB man became the fascist’s friend
Since ‘fake-news’ is all the rage these days it seems only appropriate that there’s a strange law on the books…
Abbott slams “anti-men” policy, but why are other MPs silent?
Thank heavens for Tony Abbott. Did we ever think we’d be saying that? Questionable. On Monday he spoke out to…
Pope Francis’ flock and Islam’s wolves
The Holy Father’s been having a tough time lately. He recently gave a statement to reporters on the war against…
The tide turns against Daniel Andrews sexual revolution?
The Liberal Party of Victoria has been criticised in various quarters for being “Labor-lite”, for being silent on important issues,…
Failing Fairfax’s sad sneer squad slag the Friedman freedom-fest
There’s nothing like seeing an event that you personally witnessed, written up in the mainstream media to realise how inaccurate…
Donald Trump’s and Snoop Dogg’s cute cultural affinity
In case you missed it recently rapper Snoop Dogg dropped a music video featuring a caricature of President Trump depicted…
