The sinister sharia sisterhood
‘Ayaan Hirsi (is) asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take (her) vagina away – (she doesn’t) deserve…
A fight to the finish
The Senate’s blocking of the government’s attempted modification of Section 18C indicates that there is something drastically wrong with the…
Gay Marriage Notes
Kudos to Tim Wilson (to whom I don’t, as a rule, give kudos) for defending Mark Allaby’s right to be…
Low life
My brother and I were taking a short cut through an alleyway and saw a copper coming towards us through…
An historic
Everybody’s saying it, even though the latest research declares that only 6 per cent of the population is given to…
Real life
‘Information,’ came the reply. ‘We want information.’ The voice echoed in my head. Oh no. Oh please God, no. A…
Meritocracy isn’t fair
I’ve just made a programme for Radio 4 about the populist revolts that swept Britain and America last year. Were…
All hail the new taxi-card revolution
From October last year, it was compulsory for all London black cabs to accept payment by card. London cabbies aren’t…
Wild life
Laikipia, Kenya For weeks the farm has been in the eye of a storm, with violence swirling all around…
Barometer
Nice littler earners Cressida Dick, the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, will take a voluntary pay cut from £270,000…
Diary
Donald Trump’s Washington is a city of many secrets, but no mysteries. So much about the Trump-Putin story remains unknown,…
Regressive Conservatism
Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party is coming to resemble a drunk trying to get home on a bike.…
Letters
All-round education Sir: While much of Ross Clark’s analysis of the direction that independent education has taken is spot on…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, visited Saudi Arabia without covering her hair, or even wearing a hat. Earlier, asked…
Australian Notes
Well, that was another depressingly terrible week for free speech in this country as political correctness and identity politics stayed…
Brown Study
What a surprise! The newly appointed chairman of the ABC, Justin Milne plans to do nothing about bias on the…
Simon Collins
Of all the names Mark Latham was called last week, the one which could most seriously affect his future employment…
Piers Lane
Cyclone Debbie caused the cancellation of the announcement ceremony in Townsville for this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music but…
Sensible centre
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was in fine form the other day when he proudly proclaimed to a gathering of Victorian…
A woman of genius
‘Your favourite virtue?’ ‘I don’t have any: they are all boring,’ wrote the 21-year-old Camille Claudel in a Victorian album…
Home is where the art is
The house in which I lived in Tokyo was built by my landlady, a former geisha. It stood on a…
Age as allegory
Sky Atlantic — available only to Sky customers — has the cunning/infuriating policy of broadcasting the kind of programmes most…
Kill the DJ
Don Juan in Soho rehashes an old Spanish yarn about a sexual glutton ruined by his appetite. Setting the story…
Kaiser Donald
Germany’s Great War leader was a blustering, reckless gambler who took the world over the abyss. Sound familiar?
