The fact that the long-sought 'Palace Letters' are an empty vessel hasn't stopped the woman who posits the Queen being intimately involved in a conspiracy to martyr St Gough making a big noise about them. This tends to be the way of the Left: when there is nothing there, just shout louder that there is and wait for the partisan and gullible to join the chorus

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Far be it from me to say a positive word about Victoria's Daniel Andrews, but exactly how is he so different from any other political leader? Most are incompetent and all defer to blinkered public health officials because that is easier and safer than taking responsibility for their own decisions. And all keep lockdowns at the ready to appease the wrathful god of COVID-19

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Historian David Starkey has a worthwhile proposal: if immersion in the many grievances of identity politics represents an 'education' those who favour it should foot the bill. After infuriating rounds of correspondence with NSW bureaucrats, it is clear that only defunding can avoid another generation of brainwashed dolts

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Is it only a month ago that Victoria's Dear Leader was skiting about the success of his government's war on COVID-19, insisting the Garden State was 'the envy of the world'? That might still be true, but only if the rest of the world values gross mismanagement, inconsistency and an arrogant refusal to explain

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The aim is to trap our society in a pincer movement, assailed by external and internal forces, in which we will be rendered impotent by self-doubt and self-hatred. As our sovereignty is stripped away, we are to be reduced to a cowed and subordinate status, much as the CCP is seeking to do in Hong Kong

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Lockdowns of any part of the economy offer no enduring value. COVID-19 can't be made to go away by hiding from it and will come roaring back, as it is doing in Victoria, whenever restrictions are eased. Rather than optimistic notions of an imminent vaccine, a strong dose of realism is the only efficacious prescription

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If the government makes good on its promises to overhaul university fees the party is over. Universities will dramatically scale back the number of distinct study units, rearrange them into boutique majors, and hope to attract a small number of high-ATAR, high-income students. Simply put, Minister Tehan's initiative is a death blow

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Humour, like balance and square-bat reporting, is yet another concept the ABC no longer grasps. Brace yourself for a painfully unfunny experience, but do endure as much of 'At Home Alone' as you can manage. That such a show was conceived, let alone funded and broadcast, is one more argument for a sweeping review and reform

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While the Child Abuse Royal Commission spared no scorn for the Catholic Church, it pointedly neglected to investigate Victoria Police's well documented history of scuttling investigations, even to ending the career of a detective who was determined to see justice done. Will there be a reckoning or yet more dirt swept under the rug?

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Perversely, while living comfortably in the hollowed-out shell of the humanities, tenured practitioners of these subjects have adopted as their mission the destruction of the humanities and humanism, along with Western Civilization in general. Meanwhile, their acolytes are tearing down a civilisation so they don’t have to learn about it

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