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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In his latest Media Watch Dog, Gerard Henderson writes: “Everything was true in the Alberici/Keneally discussion. Except for the facts. A truly ‘lyrical’ night on Lateline, to be sure. Inspired by the ABC Head of Factual Aunty’s very own Phil ‘Lyrical’ Craig. What a night.” After that, Jonathan Green and David Marr…

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The Age, Australia’s most inane newspaper, can’t bring itself to publish a column noting that fuel loads, rather than global warming, lead to big bushfires. Jo Nova has no such reservations

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John Reid on the Sacrificial State, where prosperity is throttled with a green cord

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