Michael Kile comments: Quadrant‘s Tony Thomas is right to emphasise Sir John Houghton’s role in driving Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change policy during the 1990s (“The Serpents Egg,” May, 2012). Some readers may be unaware the late environmental scientist, Stephen Schneider (1945-2010), had a crucial influence on him. Schneider, a researcher at Stanford University’s Woods […]

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Comedian Charles Firth explains how he picked up a total of $30,000 for a “museum” featuring the names of well-known people, each matched with a single key word: ‘‘So we thought, OK, how can we scam an arts grant by creating a program? A museum of words was the cheapest thing in the world.’’ To […]

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More than a year after his coverqage of the Gillard/AWU affair prompred an acrimonious parting with Fairfax’s 2UE, Michael Smith will be returning to the airwaves as Ben Fordham’s summer replacement. He has kept busy in the meantime.

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Greg Sheridan mourns the passing of novelist Christopher Koch: “The novel had become a minor art form, he thought, and much literary fiction was rubbish, crass and vulgar, often experimental for the sake of experiment…”

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Bill Whittle on ‘Silent Saturdays’ and the notion that parents shouldn’t clap, cheer or shout advice at their little ones’ sporting events, lest the defeated team suffer diminished self-esteem: ‘Dear league officials: I know your hearts are in the right place, but if you really love these kids, then let these boys lose, and let […]

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…why he embraced climate-change hysteria and what he thinks now

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Miranda Devine on Hal Colebatch and his new book: “What the wharfies did to Australian troops – and their nation’s war effort – between 1939 and 1945 is nothing short of an abomination … Perth lawyer Hal Colebatch has done the nation a service with his groundbreaking book, Australia’s Secret War, telling the untold story […]

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The national broadcaster’s Editor In Chief Mark Scott sits atop an ever-expanding, $1 billion-plus behemoth whose excesses, bias and gold-plated indolence he seems incapable of restraining. Not even when a conservative is depicted having sex with a dog does he demonstrate the authority — or is it the gumption? — to make purported underlings heed […]

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Babette Francis responds to Michael Galak’s observations on violence and Islam. It’s about culture, she writes, not contraception

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As Japanese forces attacked Milne Bay, watersiders went on strike to prevent munitions being loaded. Not all enemies were beyond our shores, as Hal G.P. Colbatch chronicles in this excerpt from his new book, War: How Unionists Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II. For more on Colbatch, read Tony Thomas’ profile

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