We still live in Lenin’s world
Today is the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. His Moscow funeral was marked by official communist solemnity, as if a…
Did ‘shallow Christianity’ help the Nazis rise to power?
‘Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison,’ C.S. Lewis famously said.…
AI just changed the world. Again
Argentine President Javier Milei’s recent speech, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, has caused a stir for several reasons.…
The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet
In the waning days of 2023, the last weeks of the before-time — the moments before the Republican Party would…
What happened to Labor’s two big election promises?
The two most notable Labor promises before the May 2022 election involved ‘getting wages moving again’ and the promise to…
Javier Milei: The Western world is in danger!
Argentina’s President Javier Milei’s speech to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Meeting 2024. Today I am here to tell you…
Despite three years in prison, Navalny still scares Putin
The March presidential elections in Russia will, of course, be a stage-managed farce, but that doesn’t mean that real politics…
Was the Post Office’s Horizon software used to wrongly convict a man of murder?
Robin Garbutt, the postmaster who lived above the village shop with his wife, Diana, was a popular figure in Melsonby,…
How Australia became obsessed with land acknowledgments
If you attend almost any public meeting or event in Australia these days, you’ll be greeted – some would say…
How Israel is failed by its war of words
Sitting in a room at the Israel Defence Forces’ Hakirya base in Tel Aviv, I listened – along with a…
Open letter to the Minister for Immigration
1 in 36 people in Australia today arrived last year. This is the largest migration intake in Australian history
Jordan Peterson: ‘You have won the battle, minions of the deep state – but not the war’
Jordan Peterson upsets academia. Their determination to ‘shut him up’ has little to do with arguments about free speech and…
Celebrating the spirit of Oz
As the long summer holidays draw to a close, Australia’s malcontents have roused themselves for their annual attack on Australia’s…
Brown study
I was intrigued by shadow treasurer Angus Taylor’s speech in London a few weeks ago at a conference of the…
Climate con exposed in serene Seychelles
What is heating the oceans isn’t human CO2 emissions
Billionaire Islamists behind the war
Qatar is not an honest broker in the Middle East
Putin’s useful idiot down under
Albanese should give Ukraine our retired army helicopters not bury them
For the love of our country
Don’t raze Australian culture in the name of progress
Taking ‘conserve’ out of conservative
There is much to jettison in the Anglosphere
Summer suggestions, holiday hints
No charge, Albo
Taiwan rebuffs Xi’s overtures
Expect more bullying and aggression from the CCP
Perils of surrendering sovereignty
International organisations are exemplars of political correctness
Greek tragedies
It’s the time of year when there’s a lot of talk about films and catching up with films. Along with…
Kiwi life
Ah, summer. The sap is rising, and so are anxiety levels on either side of the Tasman as editors cast…
Language
They keep inventing new, so-called ‘phobias’, don’t they? The latest is ‘fatphobia’. A new book has been published called Unshrinking:…
