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Mr President, look beyond the swamp
Not since Ronald Reagan has the reaction to a State of the Union address been so optimistic, anticipating the return…
Thatcher’s lefty
Chris Patten claimed many of the glittering prizes in British politics and society: cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher and John…
The feminist two-step
Feminism is in crisis. It’s in a crisis of its own making because it’s been an echo chamber for so…
Balhatchet job
Just when you think the cowardice of those highly-placed in the West (with the exceptions of Trump and Netanyahu) can…
OK, I’m a conservative comedian
Whenever I meet a fellow conservative—at the Opera, or at the Latin Mass, or at the hush hush child-sacrificing soirées…
Business/Robbery etc
Now that Sam Dastyari is at last about to give up his $200,000 a year Senate salary for Kristina Keneally’s…
Crossing the Jordan
The ABC, for all its tax-voracious ‘local content’, loves showing British programmes – which is just as well because with…
Losing the battle for Britain
Q: What’s the connection between jazz great Thelonious Monk and a dachshund called Charlie Barker? A: A cartoonist named Michael…
Border wars
At the end of last year the European Union delivered an ultimatum to the Polish government. It gave the administration…
Beats at the barber shop
If there is one prop that sticks out in the Barber Shop Chronicles it is the mirror. At the end…
Foundations laid in 1788
Amanda Vanstone recently chose to reveal that neither she, nor indeed, anyone she knew, would be celebrating the arrival of…
Strong men armed?
G. K. Chesterton wrote in The Everlasting Man that Christianity has died many times but always somehow – miraculously –…
Catholics needed in the fight for freedom
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa – how much longer does the breast-beating have to go on? The Royal…
Conserve what?
If, like me, you are a small government, strong borders and national defence, lots of free speech and as little…
On culture, parenting and education
The Sydney Morning Herald recently announced that the NSW Education Minister, Rob Stokes, is considering opening up the selective schools…
Aux bien pensants
Drive-by media’s bias against Trump The reporting of the 2016 presidential election can hardly be celebrated as the media’s finest…
Blasphemy or art?
When Indonesian artist Arahmaia-ni Feisal first exhibited Lingga-Yoni, she received death threats. Against scrawled Arabic script, the 1994 artwork showed…
Have a great Invasion Day
Like a national sports event, the annual Australia Day clash between patriotism and shame is upon us again. It’s a…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not President Trump’s corporate tax cuts, or even the retailer-busting arrival of Amazon to these shores that poses the…
Letter from Beijing
Political extravaganzas in China, like October’s 19th Communist Party Congress, aren’t policy turning points. They are theatre. Only one of…
Nightmares from the Nineties
The release of the Keating Cabinet papers was an opportunity for the Left to salivate over one of their politico-cultural…
In the dark
When I was very young (it must have been before I was sent to boarding school at the age of…
Keep on tweeting, Mr President
There are two ways to judge a president or a prime minister. That which is true is based on policy,…
How to win the West (back)
In the last few months, the concept of ‘Western Civilisation’ has received significant coverage in the Australian press. In the…
Hippier times
It seemed an odd place for a full-strength contingent of NSW police to set up a sobriety checkpoint, this long,…
