Gallagher’s Digital ID announcement fact-checked for misinformation
The hypocrisy of the pro-Palestine mob
Something that seems to have escaped the attention of the left, so eager are they to condemn a war by…
Queer Theory in the public schools is anti-science mumbo-jumbo
I have been reading through some training aid documents from ClickView titled Understanding Gender with various subtitles Talking about Gender and…
Activists have severely damaged the arts in Australia
Some of our finest cultural institutions have been hijacked by political activists. Captive audiences have been subjected to political activism while artists…
Unravelling UNRWA
UNRWA, which describes itself as a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has…
Gallagher’s Digital ID announcement fact-checked for misinformation
Labor has decided to rush one of its most hazardous policies through right on Christmas hoping this would strip the…
The Bowen Shock in your energy bill
My recent electricity bill was informative but menacing. It had several bits of statistical info, including the variation in consumption…
Still lost in China: conservatives must help liberate imprisoned patriots
Australian conservatives are in an uproar about the state of discourse on university campuses, especially after instances such as Harvard students’…
Albo’s dangerous Loophole Bill is struggling but far from dead
The Albanese government’s attempt to revolutionise Australia through its industrial relations Loophole Bill is struggling. The government wanted to ram the Bill…
Alan Jones: Covid vaccines to haunt the next election
Covid vaccination, which was previously made compulsory and denied employment to the unvaccinated, may well become an election issue. Let…
Why isn’t the media challenging the $60 trillion Net Zero cult?
Those who believe renewable energy will save the planet generally have very little understanding about what the apocalypse is meant…
Deadline crossed for first International Health Regulations
Australians, all 55,697 of us who put our names to Petition EN048, have received half-truths and outdated information from Mark…
The tragic story of 2,500 empty shoes
Australia’s suicide prevention policies are failing. We are falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to suicide…
Elite universities loathe us
The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne identifies its purpose as considering how Australia’s founding as a settler colony…
Saving capitalism
One of the best presentations at the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference held in London was given by Paul…
United Nations of hypocrites
Last week I wrote about the disappointing silence from the Islamic and feminist organisations about the brutal sexual violence inflicted…
Picking judges matters
My family and I arrived in Australia in January of 2005. So I’ve been here nearly two decades now. As…
Australia – a democracy in name only
Once upon a time, Australia was a united nation. Its people respected Australia Day, Anzac Day and Christmas Day. They…
Woke anti-Semites
The murder of more than 1,200 people by Hamas terrorists on 7 October was a crime against humanity, but many…
EV speed bump
The electric car market’s apparently smoothly accelerating journey along the global sales highway has hit a speed bump. The industry…
Hamas & friends
Israel’s war against Hamas has reached a crossroads. If the goal is to destroy Hamas, the role of Qatar can…
Israel should think twice before assassinating Hamas’s leaders
Israel knows that airstrikes alone cannot help it to win its war against Hamas. To handicap its enemy, the Israel…
What fiction can teach us about terrorism
The first decade of this century, following Al Qaeda’s attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in September 2001,…
Sunak loses Commons vote for first time as PM
The government has just been defeated in the Commons for the first time since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister. It…
The Tories’ migration crackdown will have many victims
The UK’s immigration system must be ‘fair, consistent, legal and sustainable’, proclaimed the new Home Secretary as he presented his…
Kiwi life
Given the UK’s Rishi Sunak sacking Suella Braverman for saying what many others would feel – that the police were…
New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy
New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…
The worst Noel? Why Kiwis are turning against wealthy foreigners
Wealthy foreigners are flocking to New Zealand, but not all Kiwis are happy about their arrival: not least locals who…
Poetic justice in New Zealand
October 14 was a good day to be a conservative on either side of the Tasman. On the same day…
What fiction can teach us about terrorism
The first decade of this century, following Al Qaeda’s attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in September 2001,…
Why Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song is one of the strangest books of all time
The 2024 Booker winner, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, is a vastly admirable book, but there is something deeply odd about…
The point of perdition
What will history make of the superior crime stories we seem to be churning out? The late Peter Corris’ Cliff…
When did publishers stop caring what their readers actually want?
It was easy to choose books for my young nieces and nephews this Christmas. First, I ruled out stories about…
A choice of this year’s gift books
Obviously, the best and funniest gift book out this Christmas is my own Still a Bit of Snap in the…
Britney Spears is back with a vengeance
I am working on a play about Marilyn Monroe at the moment and, reading Britney Spears’s book, the similarities of…
What would life on Mars actually look like?
Just as extreme altitudes have notable effects on the human body and mind, so too does extreme wealth seem to…
A history of the onion leaves one crying for more
I am a big fan of Mark Kurlansky. His Cod is one of a handful of books I recommend to…
How sport helped shape the British character
Faith in state planning was central to Harold Wilson’s pledge to modernise Britain. It was his rhetorical vision of a…
When atonal music was original and exciting
In the 1960s and 1970s, British music was transfixed by the Manchester School. Led by the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander…
The British Empire’s latest crime – to have ended the Enlightenment
What is the Enlightenment, and when did it come to an end? Neither are easy questions to answer. The Enlightenment,…
The horrors of the ‘Upskirt Decade’
The subject that Sarah Ditum addresses in Toxic is why the early part of this century was ‘such a monstrous…