You might have seen reports from London of 'climate activists' glueing themselves to Tube trains and so forth. Yes, they are quite mad, but their insanity's disruptive antics are the smaller woe. Far more depressing is that even the likes of Boris Johnson, who should know better, see their cause as just

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James Hurst's magisterial 'The Landing in the Dawn: Dissecting a Legend' leaves open the possibility that genuine victory – that is, capturing the paramount heights – was notionally possible. Had the John Monash of 1917 and 1918 been in command, Gallipoli might have been a very different story

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All who could, on both sides of my family, volunteered for the world wars, inspired not by jingoist sentiment but personal duty. Despite what its detractors and the academic revisionists would have us believe, Anzac Day honours such service and sacrifice, not shallow triumphalism

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The Religion of Peace has claimed several hundred more innocent lives, this time in Sri Lanka. Once again, as we are hearing already, we will be treated to assurances that the 'truth' of orthodox Islam abjures violence. This from a creed that has made the sword one of its stock motifs

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Measures against greenhouse gases have had a trivial effect and it is not difficult to grasp why. The developed world accounts for only 30 per cent of emissions, a figure which drops to a mere 15 per cent if the US is excluded. Yet the insanity escalates, green rent-seekers grow richer and politicians who know better opt to bite their tongues

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Much to his credit, he did far fewer disastrous things as Prime Minister than pretty much any of his successors 'achieved'. Once the colouring of partisan histories is discounted, the MHR for Lowe's worst failure was failing to save the nation from Whitlam

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The official line is that the Notre Dame fire was an unfortunate and innocent accident, probably related to ongoing renovations. If so, that would make it the exception, as hundreds of churches and cemeteries were desecrated last year alone

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A review of a new Churchill biography in our December edition prompted what became a debate in three installments, all collected here, on the one page, that readers might judge the merits of the contenders' assertions and, if they have the good sense to subscribe, join the debate via the comments thread

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Curious to find out what it is that constitutes the desired qualities of a federal public servant, I once sat the exam for aspiring recruits when they still placed credence in such sifting. As I am by nature curious, industrious and sometimes disputatious, I didn't have a chance

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The champion's sin was to post on Instagram a list of sins the Apostle Paul says disqualify people from Heaven, the alternative destination, as Folau sees it, being Hell. Cue the mob, break out the lash, build the pyre -- it's time to burn another heretic of the modern kind

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