Those of us who still believe the legal system's traditions help preserve us from barbarism can only hope the B-grade spectacle we have witnessed so many times in the persecution of George Pell is an aberration, not a portent of some squalid future

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Unpleasant in almost every aspect of her policy prescriptions, US presidential aspirant Elizabeth Warren actually gets something right in opposing one-sided preferential trade rules. In this she is as one with Donald Trump. What a pity there are no Australia voices joining their choir

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If the global climate is 'destabilised' and consequently ever more 'unpredictable', how can warmist climateers make such confident predictions about which way the mercury is heading? Fear not, you lesser mortals, they claim not only to know all that more but also how to make the planet heel to their commands

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Governments, most in any case, do want to do the right thing. They like to be liked for tackling what they and others, including voters, see as problems to be corrected through policy, edict and enforcement, believing the various arms of the state can engineer solutions. They are fools for thinking so

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As a teacher, I often come across students and fellow teachers who live in fear of climate change and are determined to see that something be done about it -- although not, I hasten to add, any specific measure that might crimp their enjoyment of energy-intense lifestyles. Here's what I tell them to banish fear of CO2

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I was born in Liverpool, whose inhabitants are not known for exemplary pronunciation, so it is with some trepidation that I note the endemic mangling of our common tongue. Think I'm taking picayune offence? Turn on your radio and wince

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The latest numbers from the Productivity Commission paint anything but an encouraging vista. If we wish to see higher living standards, an assault on regulatory measures and the winding back of government as a share of GDP is the prescription

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The sacrifices, hard work and patriotism which created a nation of such complexity and cohesion should be celebrated, surely, by all right-thinking Australians? Yet all the NRL star can do is hog the spotlight with his empty, divisive gesture, the basis of which cannot withstand a moment’s scrutiny

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Nelson Mandela said a refusal to forgive 'is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.' It is advice blacktivists demanding what amounts to constitutionally endorsed separatism would do well to accept. They won't, of course

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Day Two: George Pell was convicted after two trials closed to the public, but his appeal is being live streamed and available to all. To follow proceedings as they unfold, follow our link to Victoria's Supreme Court and, during the court's down time, re-read our coverage of what led to a conviction that beggars the imagination. Comments are open to subscribers

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