Dispute the Australian-born propagandist's templated ravings all you like, but you have to admire his acumen in recognising a niche market for themes the Left finds so edifying. It's all the West's fault, you see. No surprise to find him feted at Sydney University

Once, the left was for the rights of women, minorities and free speech. Now, as we await the next Islamist massacre, its purpose is to weave rationalisations and sophistries into the whole cloth of a dissembling drapery tailored to obscure the obvious

More than a year after its publication, the worth of novelist Michel Houellebecq’s "Submission" shines ever brighter, its synthesis of cynicism, seriousness and sadness a jaded reminder that fiction remains stranger than fact, but only just

When it comes to choosing sides, the hard left's anti-Western mindset inevitably trumps respect for the values it otherwise professes to endorse: gender equality, gay rights and opposition to theocratic absolutism, to name but a few. Shame, however, remains an alien concept

The Islamic firebrand invited by Festival of Dangerous Ideas -- then rapidly dis-invited -- to put the killing of troublesome women in a cultural context has weighed in on the Charlie Hebdo massacre. He disapproves, sort of, while awaiting the day when just deserts are meted out by the law of the land, not "counterproductive" vigilantes