High life
Twenty-five years ago this week, Los Angeles was burning because of Rodney King’s beating at the hands of the fuzz,…
What, no Nobel Peace Prize?
Trump’s first 100 days: A big failure and a new low in the polls, blasted the Washington Post in March,…
The Cup, the Martyrs and the Archbishop
The sub-leader in the Australian some months ago (‘Sipping water a capital offence’) called attention to the plight of Mrs…
‘Head of state’? Did I say that?
Malcolm Turnbull has always been a vote loser, contrary to the opinion of the commentariat who put him there. Apart…
Mao’s music
Smog is making me cough and I feel my eyelids smart and redden. High-rises are swaddled in a soupy haze…
Great mates
The Liberals must be doing something right. The Left are re-skilling themselves in the art of mocking Australian values and…
Low life
I went to a barbecue. Everyone was patient and well disposed towards the silent, depressed, two-toed sloth in their midst.…
Jane
‘What are you laughing at?’ asked my husband in an accusing tone on Monday morning last week as he unloaded…
The age of Joshua
Every so often comes a moment that can set the history of sport on a different trajectory. I believe we…
A progressive alliance? It’s more a coalition of chaos
My heart soared when I first heard the phrase ‘progressive alliance’ in this election campaign. Not the reaction you’d expect,…
Real life
With so many last-straw moments to choose from in my house-moving experience, it is a close call to pick the…
Portrait of the week
Home Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, cheered the United Kingdom by promising four new bank holidays for the whole country…
Friends, Romans and Russians
President Vladimir Putin, who still supports Bashar al-Assad in Syria, needs help if he wishes to be seen as a…
Is boarding school cruel?
Yes Alex Renton Last week some 20,000 children under the age of 14 packed their bags to return to boarding…
Trump’s Brit
Sebastian Gorka is a big man. He has a powerful handshake, a deep voice, and a serious goatee. He’s also…
Do do God
This election was won two days before it was announced, on Easter Sunday. Theresa May put out an Easter message…
A little too perfect
Emmanuel Macron is going to be the next president of France. I know people are saying Marine Le Pen isn’t…
What’s the matter with Macron?
Coming out of a celebratory dinner at a Montparnasse brasserie after topping the poll in the first round of the…
The madness of price caps
Better access to education. Tax cuts for anyone in the struggling middle. More affordable homes, and more money for the…
The lords of poverty
Kenya I met Dr Tom Catena in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains — the site of an African war and famine few…
Fighting talk — but little action — from Ernest Hemingway
On 11 May 1937, at the Gare St-Lazare in Paris, Ernest Hemingway said goodbye to a friend who was leaving…
“Buy Ethical” will only harm the world’s poorest
For the past four years, Baptist World Aid Australia have been releasing their annual Behind the Barcode report into the…
Sack Yassmin Abdel-Magied, help the left destroy freedom
Yassmin Abdel-Magied should be roundly criticised for her ANZAC day comments, but demanding she be sacked only feeds the culture…
EXCLUSIVE: An 18c victim speaks
What happened in 2013 to QUT student Calum Thwaites might have happened to your teenage son or mine. Thwaites and…
