Malcolm Turnbull is gone, which is something to celebrate. But for this conservative his departure isn’t enough to inspire more than the minimum of Yuletide cheer. The party he left behind, divided and with no apparent urge to rediscover its former principles, is better than Labor, true But that’s not saying much

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An Islamist ‘known to police’ rampaged through Bourke Street and left a good man dead. Yesterday in Strasbourg one of his co-religionists did likewise and took many more lives. These outrages are now so common they flicker for a moment in the headlines then vanish and are gone. What do our leaders do? Frisk old ladies at airports and say nary a word against Islam

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The election is coming and, before that, independent Kerryn Phelps’ Nauru bill will be back before the House to further embarrass and potentially humiliate the government. Why not go early and do so with the one policy that would give voters a real choice between Labor and Labor Lite: scrap Paris

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Jewish Jerusalem is a shining symbol of our Judeo-Christian civilisation’s origin. Out of it has flowed individual freedom, a culture of tolerance and decency, science, technology, capitalism and prosperity. Nothing matches it — except in the inverse, the refusal to recognise the city as Israel’s rightful capital

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If the Liberal Party is to save itself, much less the nation, it must not shirk the challenge of pushing back against the progressive zeitgeist. Ignoring the values of the rank-and-file who join the branches, man the polling booths, and who donate and raise money is a certain recipe for casting the party into the abyss

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‘Islam is dressed up as a religion but is in reality a totalitarian ideology. It wants to dominate and is unwilling to integrate and assimilate. There is not a single country where Islam is dominant that is truly free … We will never apologize for being free men, we will never bow for the combined forces of Mecca and the Left.’

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In Melbourne this week, blogger and author Marc Henrickx launched A Guide to Climbing Ayers Rock, which argues the sandstone monolith belongs to all Australians, not just those Aborigines whose local leaders are rejecting documented history to deny all but their own access to a national treasure. Here is what he had to say

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The original Children’s Crusade, if it actually happened, didn’t end well for the pre-pubescent zealots, who are said to have ended up as slaves. Today’s kids would know as much if their brainwashers, also known as ‘teachers’, focused on fact rather than getting them into the streets to demonstrate against nasty weather

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Temperance preachers of old were known to parade shambling drunks as living examples of Demon Rum’s perils. The abysmal failure of the Garden State’s alleged conservatives makes them a similar case study. Drink deeply from the Labor cup, be agreeable in an ABC-friendly sort of way, and voters won’t be able to tell the difference

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As the Liberal Party sinks into its morass of feckless principle and Turnbullian intrigue I have come to accept that you will soon occupy The Lodge. Fair enough, that’s democracy. But I implore you not to change your stated policy on franking credits. How can I plan to cope with your intended injustice if you keep changing it?

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