Features Australia
Dancing to terror’s tune
If when you woke on the morning of Sunday 15 July, you made the error of watching the ABC television…
The Treaty of Spring Street
History in the old sense of events and names isn’t much taught in our schools any more, such history as…
The bully boys and girls have gone too far
On both sides of the Tasman, too many of our MPs haven’t listened to the brilliant black American academic, Thomas…
Global brand Julia
‘Trailing clouds of glory’ is so apt for Julia Gillard AC’s post-prime ministerial career. This month the apolitical.co blog for…
Paradiski lost
Once again, Western civilisation is under mortal threat. This time it comes from a deepening schism between the rank-and-file and…
An inconvenient truth about child abuse
In debates about child abuse and neglect, truth normally becomes the first casualty. ‘A quarter of Australian children had witnessed…
May day for Brexit
I confess to being incredibly naive. After the 23 June 2016 Brexit referendum when 1.7 million more Britons voted for…
Thinking versus doing
The Australian National University’s rejection of the Ramsay Centre’s Western Civilisation degree has ignited a debate about university education in…
Revolt against collectivism
If politics is the robust exchange of ideas, there are certainly times when one must look beyond personalities to see…
Black mass
That Dark Mofo, the Tasmanian festival dedicated to the dark arts, has courted controversy once again is no surprise. Just…
Tin foil hats and the top end of town
You have to wonder what Paul Keating will be thinking as the invitations to attend Labor fundraisers and campaign events…
Letter from Russia
The Football World Cup was a winner for Russia; tourists like me flooded in (to cheer a reasonably performed Australian…
Anti-Abbott galahs just lying or incompetent?
Tony Abbott has the politicians, the commentariat and other elites very worried, and not just about energy.They know that what…
My civilisation is better than yours
Am I the only one who finds the Ramsay Western civilisation controversy unedifying? As I read the warring op-eds I…
Adjudication in advance
What is going on with the top judges in Britain? They sure seem hell bent on travelling as quickly as…
Did Granny jump, or was she pushed?
Dr Henry Marsh, British neurosurgeon, was displeased when the UK Parliament rejected euthanasia three years ago. The good doctor said,…
Cultural pronunciation
When I lived in Sweden, I would watch football with my Swedish mate Rob and struggle with some of the…
Renewables becalmed
As Australia’s electricity grids strain to cope with demand and government efforts to foist yet more renewable energy on them,…
Don’t call me Madam
‘Respect women’ shouts a giant hoarding sponsored by Victoria’s wastrel Labor government (the one that squandered $300 million on not…
Judge for yourself
An 82 year old American judge, Justice Anthony Kennedy, announces his retirement and the country is in uproar. It’s a…
Sounds from the silence
From Janpath Road in the centre of Delhi, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts appears almost deserted. I’m…
Letter from London
If the crescendo of cranes towering above development blocks represents a city’s prosperity, then Manila and London are prospering. Setting…
Writers are not moral guides
Like Dorothy Parker, I have a decent number of grey hairs from my dealings with the intelligentsia. I’ve had my…
CNN sucks, Trump triumphs
‘CNN sucks…CNN sucks,’ the capacity crowd of rank-and-file Americans in Minnesota’s giant Amsoil Arena chanted. This was their down-to-earth message…
Xena madness
For sheer grotesquerie, a recent push for the feminisation of the Australian Army would be hard to beat. Former General…
