Features Australia
PM in the Last Chance Saloon
Australia, we’re told, will soon be under a government of thieves and constitutional vandals, pledged to change laws from the…
An instrument of unconditional surrender
In a previous article in these pages (Battle of Britain, Mk II, 1 Dec 2018) I argued that the European…
Royally irresponsible
Over the past year, a belief has taken hold that the main driver of wrongdoing in our banking and financial…
The tyranny of the minority
When police accused actor Justin Smollett of staging a hate crime, his left-wing cheer squad threw down their pom-poms and…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s like the farcical Fawlty Towers admonition not to mention the war; in the real world it could not be…
Footballers have rights, too
There’s a good chance that because of the charge against Jack de Belin, the right to the presumption of innocence…
Deep State steps out of the shadows
One of Sherlock Holmes’ enduring tropes is the dog that didn’t bark in the night, giving away the fact that…
For whom the Pell tolls
As the author of a book on Vatican corruption, I know there are almost no depths to which the progressive…
Gaia’s Juniors
Grumpy adults who complain about the fecklessness of youthful ‘snowflakes’ will be gladdened that at least some of the young…
The march of Europe’s nationalists
Brexit will be the defining event for Europe in 2019. But another big story will also hog the headlines: the…
On the cultural reappropriation of long sleeve dresses
As a rule, I do not write articles calling out the stupid things I’ve seen on the internet. There are…
Morrison, Dutton and the Coalition
Over here in London, politics is boiling down to a battle between perfidity (of Theresa May, her Remainer-stacked Cabinet and…
Whitewater, Lewinsky, Clinton and, er, Trump
This month marks the 20th anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s acquittal by the Senate in the Whitewater-Lewinsky bogus scandal. It…
Reassessing Bill
The renewed talk about refugees and border protection, brought on by the passage of the bill for medical evacuation from…
Tipping point of hysteria
Since the dawn of the climate debate in the late 1980s, any number of tipping points for the earth’s ecosystem…
Where is GetUp’s ‘Drugs Kill’ campaign?
In their latest attempt to dupe Australians, GetUp! has enlisted both a ‘big lie’ and a hip online shopping site…
No borders, no country
If we don’t have borders, we don’t have a country’. Not many Western leaders would join Donald Trump in declaring…
The man the Left fears most
The seat of Warringah, on Sydney’s northern beaches, has never been marginal and has always been held for the conservative…
Aux bien pensants
After the dry comes the wet ‘Remember, after the big dry comes the big wet,’ presciently warned salt-of-the-earth South Australian…
Secularism – the new firebrand religion
The Australian Senate is currently considering a bill sponsored by the ALP’s Senator Wong that, if accepted, will amend the…
Fall of the House of Adler
‘Look here, what’s this book on my desk about Al Capone?’ ‘Why, Vice-Chancellor, it’s one of our flagship publications from…
Ramsay versus the Kaiser
Politically active people don’t see eye-to-eye on many issues these days, but something they all seem to agree on is…
Business/Robbery etc
Who needs parliament to make laws when there are clever judges who reckon they can do a far better job…
The Lion, the Witch & the Closet
With impeccable timing, increasingly-eccentric Defence Minister Christopher Pyne this week leapt out of some bizarre theological closet to declare that…
Selling virtue
Mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto have become the first major companies to publicly support the Uluru Statement from the…
