Andrew Bolt, not normally a tease, ended a recent post at his blog with an addendum to set the imagination ablaze: NOTE: I was planning to make an announcement soon about my career. Given this post – and the wilful misreporting about Sky – I should make absolutely clear that my plans were made and […]

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Jordan Peterson is a remarkable individual, as much for his patience as the quality of his mind. Time after time he sits down with interlocutors and fields preconceptions dressed up as loaded questions. How he manages to maintain an even temper is a wonder for the ages, not least during this extended encounter with British […]

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At the Menzies Research Centre, a review by Nick Cater of Kevin Rudd’s latest ode to his thwarted magnificence: Now we know the truth behind the conspiracy to destroy one of the greatest prime ministers in the history of Australia, and possibly the world. Kevin Rudd did not, as previously supposed, blunder his way through […]

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The NSW government has a tidy and useful website urging mothers-to-be to eat well and take care of, as the introduction puts it, “your baby”. The best way to meet you and your baby’s nutritional needs is to eat a wide variety of nutritious foods and be as healthy as possible as early as possible. […]

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According to the ABC, women despise Jair Bolsonaro. The news out of South America is that Jair Bolsonaro, inevitably described by Their ABC as “far right”, has achieved 56% of the vote and will romp into Brazil’s presidency. This might come as a surprise to Radio National listeners recently treated to the perspective of New […]

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When our latest PM split the portfolios of energy and environment he appointed Angus Taylor to the former with what was widely reported as a brief to bring down the cost of power and do so in hurry. The Minister’s latest tweet is reproduced above. Many will think it a sad contrast with the sentiment […]

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Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has produced a little video laying out why she is such a remarkable person. “I’m a woman. I’m a migrant. I’m muslim. I’m a mother.” At no point in the video does Ms Faruqi say, “I’m an Australian.” An oversight, no doubt. For more on her various crusades and passions, follow […]

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At Quillette, a webzine well worth bookmarking, Jonathan Haidt’s experiment with left- and right-thinking university students is cited in a must-read post by Matthew Blackwell as further confirmation of what conservatives have long known — we think the Left ill-informed and in need of gentle education; they regard us as evil and in need of […]

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Today’s news that PM Scott Morrison is sending Malcolm Turnbull to another of those chinwags that keep CO2’s foes permanently airborne,  jetting from this fret fest to the next, makes one wonder why journalists bother to make stuff up. Yet despite real life being so much more bizarre, they persist, as Powerline’s Scott Johnson detailed […]

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Whether Talleyrand actually said of the Bourbons “They have learned nothing. They have forgotten nothing” is a matter of some dispute, but a clouded provenance diminishes not at all the observation’s relevance to the weekend’s contest in Wentworth and the immediate reactions of some to its result. The Australian reports: Moderate Liberal MPs have urged […]

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