Milo’s return and the coming battle for Berkeley
Anyone who seriously thought loud-mouthed lefties had driven Milo Yiannopoulos into the woods forever is seriously out of touch with…
Yassmin Abdel-Magied? Sack her
Twenty-six year-old Muslim youth advocate and ABC TV host Yassmin Abdel-Magied has landed herself in some seriously hot water after…
Malcolm Turnbull: governing for headlines and opinion polls
You would think that after imposing what they had promised not to impose, a new tax on superannuation, or the backpacker tax,…
Hijacking Anzac Day
Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending the ANZAC Day dawn service at Martin place. As a first-generation immigrant, it…
Fighting McKenzie, the Anzac spirit and Australian values
Australia has produced some amazing war heroes but none so remarkable, or popular, as Fighting McKenzie from World War I.…
April 25: the stocktaking day for the national consciousness
Anzac Day is stocktaking day for the national consciousness. It’s a special day; a time for Australians not only to…
Marine Le Pen is no saviour
I used to be an avid fan of the TV-series House of Cards. Frank Underwood throwing Zoey Barnes under a…
Christianity, public life and the Thomas Moore option
I’ve always had a soft spot for Britain’s Liberal Democrats. Our tryst began in 2014, when ex-leader Nick Clegg sent…
Ecclesia and empire: a church historian and the Benedict Option
In last week’s Spectator, Orthodox writer and conservative polemicist Rod Dreher invoked Scottish philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre to call on Christians…
Energy policy: Green and red
Do you suffer from high power bills? Never fear, The Greens are here! Like knights in shining green armour they’re…
How China censors your movies
Remember the outrage late last year about Matt Damon playing the lead role in “The Great Wall”? The movie’s trailer…
Psycho thriller
Psychological thrillers — or ‘thrillers’ as they used to be known — have become almost as ubiquitous on television as…
Passion indeed
‘The dripping blood our only drink/ The bloody flesh our only food…/ Again, in spite of that, we call this…
Take a bow
Monteverdi 450 — the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists’ tour of his three operas to 33 cities across two…
Boozy bard
Even the Bard’s staunchest fans admit that ‘Shakespeare comedy’ may be an oxymoron. That’s the assumption of the touring company…
New York diary
The Brexit symposium I am here in New York City thanks to New York University, and in particular to the…
Pollie pedal diary
It is a 550 km drive from Albury to Sydney along the Hume Freeway. Travelling at 110 kph, you can…
Cross lines
In Competition No. 2994 you were invited to submit a letter of complaint from a fictional character to his, hers…
2306: Instruction
‘21D/14’ (four words in total) is an instruction (in ODQ) with which solvers will comply by inserting the remaining unclued…
to 2303: Great 32
Five unclued lights are titles of RAGS (24) by SCOTT JOPLIN (32 31), who died on 1 April 1917. First…
Dear Mary
Q. May I pass on a tip to readers wishing to reject a hopeful romantic partner without hurting their feelings?…
Unearthly darkness
Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipsesby Norton, £20, pp. 336 On 28 May 1900…
A glimmer of hope
I argued that it was unnecessary to have made sacrifices during Lent in order to celebrate its conclusion. It is…
A choice of first novels
If you go down to the woods today… That is the starting point for Idaho by Emily Ruskovich, who grew…
Bring up the bodies
I grew up with a skeleton in the attic. My mother’s clinical training bestowed on our family a short man’s…
