A speaking gig in Israel has introduced me to the pleasure of low-cost flying with EasyJet, which is cheap as chips and, better than that, run by someone who doesn't see his job as a licence to tell others what they can think and say. As for Jerusalem, it's magnificent

With Fairfax Media in its last, demented days and the ABC a billion-dollar pustule of un-lanced likemindedness, conservatives once looked to The Australian's opinion page for intellectual rigour and consistency. An agile columnist going this-way-and-that jeopardises that credibility