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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Her Majesty and the Ignorance of the Woke
Just days before Her Majesty The Queen celebrates her first Official Birthday after the passing of her liegeman of life and limb, Prince Philip, woke ideologues at Oxford University’s Magdalen College have maliciously smeared our nonagenarian sovereign as a racist and announced the removal of the royal portrait from the college’s Middle Common Room.
American PhD student Matthew Katzman, who tabled the motion, declared that this latest example of cancel culture insanity was necessary to make Magdalen a “welcome, neutral place for all members”, disparaging the sovereign’s image as an offensive symbol of “recent colonial history”. The announcement triggered predictable outpourings of woke bile from fringe academics like Birmingham City University’s professor of black studies Kehinde Andrews, who defamed the Queen as the “number one symbol of white supremacy” in the world.
But unlike comically ideological professors from third-rate universities who equate…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
