Russia is said to have poisoned a defector with a nerve agent that has Moscow's fingerprints all over it. Why so careless? In Syria, one chemical incident among many prompts a massive air blitz. Again, why now? Only one truth shall can set free the questing, restless mind
Malcolm Turnbull said this when about to plunge the knife: 'Now, if we continue with Mr Abbott as Prime Minister ... he'll be succeeded by Mr Shorten [who is] utterly unfit to be Prime Minister of this country and yet so he will be if we do not make a change.'
There is nothing of the Harbourside Mansion about the Monash Forum leader, and if principle, nous and courage are recommendations, he has those too. Given the deficiencies of The Lodge's current resident and talk of recycling the leader he knifed, we could do much worse
The Fairfax press casts a monocular green eye over the Monash Forum and finds something both sinister and hollow in the ambition to see a stable grid and power prices reduced. Reading the group's manifesto before misrepresenting it was, apparently, just too much trouble
Green/Left groupthink at Monash University has reached the point where the brains trust thought it a good idea to woo prospective students with a collage of violent social-justice film clips presented against a soundtrack of violent rap lyrics. Here's a better idea: don't send your kids there
The irony is palpable. Despised by Turnbullians and derided by the solons of the mainstream media, the Liberal Party's betrayed former leader has done it a great favour. So long as he and a few others remain Liberals, the possibility of a return to principle is scotching support for Bernardi and others
Holding a critical opinion of Islam is now grounds to be locked up by British officials, particularly if you intend to speak about terrorism, homophobia, misogyny and other unfortunate elements of multicultural enrichment. Indeed, being 'right wing' is enough to see the door slammed
My friend, Arthur, is far from stupid, yet he was seduced into parting with his hard-earned cash by slick and accomplished online con artists. In his case the monetary loss was small even if the resulting inconvenience was not. let his experience be a lesson to all
It is one thing for the wets who installed Turnbull and whose obsessions he has championed to be shouting 'Unity!' For a genuinely great PM to have joined their chorus is quite another. What Liberals need is a summons to rediscover principles and the backbone to stand by them
Monday will make it thirty and beyond dispute: as a PM, political strategist, campaigner and man of principle, Malcolm Turnbull is a dud of the first order. An honourable man would stand down upon failing by the same yardstick with which he measured the greater achievements of another
If garden variety party members were to get the final say, the next Liberal leader would be more conservative than the for-the-moment incumbent. After the craven treachery of the elected elite who ousted Abbott in the absurd belief that Turnbull represented something more than ego, why not give rank-and-filers a shot?
When did we begin to accept mere opinion as unquestionable truth, with no hint of doubt or uncertainty allowed, no need for deeper knowledge, no possibility of error and no place for any change of mind? Such is the arrogance of the loudly uninformed that fervour these days overwhelms mere fact
The absence of an objective and complete measure of morality, truth and equality among humankind points to God as the missing adjudicator. While this is not an argument to carry the day in court, it is as at least as credible as the Darwinian 'refutation' favoured by militant atheists
The state's power to dictate the way we use language has become one of the authoritarian Left's most formidable tools, as Jordan Peterson has rightly emphasised. Yet most liberal politicians remain oblivious to this insidious abuse of terminology, as Quadrant has warned since 2004
To argue that chaplains be allowed in government schools is bespeaks no hidden attempt to convert students. To be culturally literate and fully appreciate what underpins Western civilisation, students need to be familiar with the contribution and significance of Christianity
As Orwell's porcine propagandist put it, "loyalty and obedience are more important." Loyalty, in the case of the current government, to betraying free expression, promoting green myths and stupendous electricity bills and, most shamefully, to the blanket rejection of conservative principles
The arguments against constitutional monarchy are rooted in ideology, rather than a case, however tenuous, for improved function and practicality. 'National unity!' cry republicans, hoping none will notice the divisions they themselves sow and aim to exploit
The US President was put in an invidious predicament by Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and the many RINOs in the US Congress. They encased the desperately needed increased military spending inside an omnibus bill and gave Trump no option but to sign. Or did they?
Bill Shorten wouldn't be getting get away with his Sheriff of Nottingham impersonation if financial commentators still brought a smidgen of balance to their analyses, rather than regarding policy announcements through the prism of nakedly partisan political sympathies
The Left's rules: The personal is political. Belief trumps argument and evidence. Don’t change your mind when the facts change, simply summon a Twitter posse of the abusively like-minded. 'Shut up' is a valid argument. There can be no debate with racists/misogynists/climate deniers...