The Church of England and the neo-Marxist war on language
News that the Church of England has ditched the ‘church’ bit for the sake of appearing more ‘modern’ is both…
Why Gen Z women are looking for a man in finance
“I’m looking for a man in finance/Trust fund/6’5”/Blue eyes.” When Megan Boni posted this ditty on her TikTok account a…
The ‘Clooney effect’ hasn’t affected my village in Provence
My eldest daughter’s husband is from Como. In the early 2000s George Clooney caused a stir in the town when…
Cycling and sleeping in wine country
Tom Kevill-Davies and I are sitting on the deck of the Hungry Cyclist Lodge chatting about food and adventures. This…
Reginald D. Hunter and the cowardice of the comedy class
The brave clown who speaks the truth and shames the devil is a showbiz tradition, from Charlie Chaplin to Lenny…
The controversial truth about China’s new gas field
The news was seemingly big but the announcement curiously low key. Earlier this month, China declared that it had discovered…
Ukraine could deliver a killer ideological blow to Putin
As I write, four brigades of the Ukrainian army are advancing into the territory of the Russian Federation, and are…
Male violence does not take place in a vacuum
There have been lots of reasons to be optimistic this summer: the glorious spectacle of the Olympics; the (relatively) good…
Minouche Shafik and the great tragicomedy of Diversity in our time
Minouche Shafik has reigned as president of Columbia University. Culture wars, like the kind involving actual armies, have casualties. Shafik…
Trapped, doomed and unwelcome
Psychiatrist and former Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry has spent the last five years leading a ground-breaking study,…
Brown study
At long last, there is a case for social reform that I can support. I do not normally get behind…
Our tinpot tyrannies
The state governments are out of control
Australia’s jihad-supporting government
Our most anti-Israel and anti-Jewish administration ever
China goes for gold in South China Seas
No points for Keating’s kangaroo breakdance
Perils of two-tier rule
Majority must not be silenced
Get tougher now on border patrolling
People smugglers will exploit weakness
History in remote hills
Tillite tales at Poolamacca
Kamala Chameleon
Lies and fantasies of the Democratic ticket
Our woeful elites
Play woke politics and you will lose
The power of surprise
You would think that Andrew Bovell, the man who wrote Lantana, would not be subject to the petty indignities of…
Aussie life
O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us! said Robbie Burns. And nobody…
Language
There are times when I am tempted to think that English, in general terms, is richer and more colourful than…
One people, one nation, one destiny
Olympic superpower
How Ancient Greece handled riots
Riots are difficult enough for us to deal with, let alone for the ancients, who had neither police nor prisons;…
Please stop making Alien movies
In the Alien films, a xenomorph is a monstrous, all-consuming life form that exists only to make more and more…
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