Russia has changed since the days when I fled the old Soviet Union, but a recent visit to my former homeland suggests not as much nor in the ways I might have hoped. When the best and brightest feel their futures lie elsewhere and queue up to leave, prospects are grim and unlikely to improve

Muslim immigration can’t be stopped, nor the superiority of Western cultural and social conventions actively promoted. A safe and encouraging environment can’t be offered to Muslims who wish to leave behind their intolerant creed. We are stuck, I’m afraid, with just a hope and a prayer

Always Leaning to Port party leader Olive Green discerned with nuanced eye that the cause of female emancipation was greatly enabled by the new arrivals' insistence on male preferment. "A just society calibrates patriarchal relativism according to skin tone and voting block," she said

Those who fled the Borough Market massacre with hands on heads were victims of our culture's inherent decency and respect for laws and tolerance --prisoners, if you will, of an invasive strategy that exploits the oxymoronic commandment that we, as a society, must tolerate the intolerant

If Boris Johnson replaces Theresa May, the UK will have a Donald Trump of sorts -- an advocate of the political good sense in reducing the size of government as a basic principle. That would be a start, but no more than start, if democracy has both the will to survive and a realistic hope of doing so

Our political, civic and even religious leaders are stubbornly unwilling to grasp and accept Islam's true nature, its ambitions and what those things mean in the context of Australia's future. Silence, as they say, gives consent. The need now is to get loud and stay loud

You’re more likely to be killed by a refrigerator than Islamic terror, proffers Lawrence Krauss, favoured guest of the ABC. What a joke!  Extremism is the creeping lifeblood of The Prophet's gospel. It crept on 9/11. It crept in Manchester. It crept in London. And it will creep again tomorrow

The recognition that man's thumb exerts a considerable weight on the current ecological scale is anathema to those who promote the myth of "wilderness", that toxic manifestation of green romanticism. In the 1860s, remarkable Victorian bushman and naturalist Alfred Howitt knew better

I came to this wonderful country from Hungary, fleeing my homeland one jump ahead of the Russians. Cricket, inedible bread, the bizarre 'football' codes -- they were the negatives but didn't amount to much cause for complaint. Australia, though, how much do I love you?

Fear not if confronted by an unpalatable fact, perhaps about a political hero or the tenets of a particular religion much in the news of late. Mainstream commentary will make that sore point vanish with inspired errors, tendentious claims, muddled thinking and politically correct obfuscation

It will take a good deal of courage, but Islamic leaders can get into the fight against extremism in very practical and proactive ways. Inaction can only make life more difficult for moderate Muslims who have embraced Australian values and just want to get on with their lives

Here is the dark magic of PC thinking: it subtly inverts the truth, leaving us feeling virtuous while literally and metaphorically disarmed. Hug the person next to you, urged Katy Perry at the Manchester memorial concert. Just hope he's not wearing a suicide vest

Jihadism loves a weak horse, as no less an authority than Osama Bin Laden reminded us, if we care to listen. What we owe the memory of violent Islam's many recent victims is to acknowledge the very real war that made them its casualties and respond accordingly

Repeat the US President's words in nasal tones of Strine, substitute Portland in Victoria for Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and America's billions of dollars to Big Warming for Australia's mere millions, and his observations and sentiments apply every bit as well on this side of the Pacific

It is just one man's opinion, but the abuse I have encountered from the Black Victim Brigade entitles me to right of reply. Yes, blacktivists are angry, very angry, but not about the issues they claim to be angry about. Rather, their fury is opportunistic hypocrisy of the first order

A certain kind of feminist will skate over the outrages suffered by Aboriginal women in communities where elements of traditional culture prevail. One guesses it is more fun to dress David Morrison in high heels and applaud his denunciations of the innocuous term 'guys'

When a Senate committee sought perspectives on the future of multiculturalism I shared the thought that, given some of the odious and appalling customs and beliefs made immune to criticism by official policy, it shouldn't have a future. Here is what our elected representatives refused to accept

The Uluru Statement and push for constitutional recognition which convened that gabfest both hang on the willingness of those not invited to accept magic words and incantations of grievance. Politeness silences open scepticism of most non-Aboriginals, but it is unlikely to apply at the ballot box

I don’t want searches outside public events. I don’t want concrete barriers to prevent mad Muslims mowing down pedestrians. I don't want to hear another smug sophist prattling about lethal refrigerators. What I want is a logical, reasoned response to an evil, growing menace

Photo ops, soft words and Iftar dinners at Kirribilli did nothing to curtail the murderous impulses of the man who, last night in Melbourne, staged a lethal ambush in the name of Allah. That creature is dead, as is an innocent desk clerk, and three officers wounded. If our leaders won't lead, we need better ones