Sir Robert Peel is remembered as the founder of London’s police force, which set the model for upright, community-based policing. Apart from being the reason English police officers are know as ‘Bobbies’, he was also the source of nine guiding principles formulated in 1829 and subsequently adopted by civilised nations across the world. Nowhere in […]

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You couldn’t make this up. In what is to be hoped will be the near future, Melbourne University Press will be publishing  Australia Before Conquest: An Assessment of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu by the anthropologist and linguist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe. The galleys are now being fitted with maps and other illustrations and, […]

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The IPA’s Gideon Rozner explains to Americans why Melbourne is allowing itself to be ruined by an unhinged Premier, his thoroughly politicised police force and the general population’s supine acceptance of mandated insanity: …The fact that Melbourne has allowed itself to be decimated in the name of the coronavirus is as predictable as it is […]

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At Catallaxy Files, Sinclair Davidson writes: Remember all that talk in March and April about shifting the curve, about buying time to ensure that the public health system didn’t collapse? Well, it was all a lie. Australia has been pursuing a COVID elimination strategy. It turns out that the modelling that the Victorian government has […]

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When this morning’s edition of the Herald Sun landed on Melbourne doorsteps, the front-page (reproduced in part above) report began thus: Victorian businesses are pleading with Premier Daniel Andrews not to send them to their economic grave as an extended lockdown looms. Inside the same edition of the Herald Sun, on page 17, there is […]

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Readers may have been following from a distance the kerfuffle over the BBC’s disdain for Rule Britania and the attempts by some at Britain’s national broadcaster to have it stripped from the Proms. Apparently, if you’re a woke sort, it is an incitement to celebrate the Middle Passage, red-coated racism then and white privilege today.  […]

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At the ABC, the thugs bashing, burning and looting US cities are ‘mostly peaceful’ protesters, curiosity being in such short supply at the national broadcaster’s Washington bureau that no one has bothered to devote more than a passing glance at the plentiful online footage of, to cite but one incident, Republicans being jostled, abused and […]

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Asked for her opinion of female intellectuals, novelist Mary McCarthy had kind words for Hannah Arendt, who she  “greatly admired”. Lillian Hellman, however, was another matter. “Every word she writes is false, including ‘and’ and ‘but,'” she replied. The barbed quip went over so well, McCarthy repeated it with relish and minor variations in several […]

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