That society need banks goes without saying, unfettered inquiries from time to time as well. But the various taxpayer-funded watchdogs whose shortcomings were exposed by the recent inquiry into financial institutions, the case for them is harder to make on the strength of their record

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Many people of reason and standing -- Mark Steyn, Douglas Murray, Mark Durie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, to name just a few -- are concerned about Islam's tendency to produce violent and supremacist advocates of the Prophet's creed. The oafish and tin-eared Fraser Anning should not be included in that company

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Aircraft accidents rarely have a single cause, so many investigations reveal a tragic convergence of errors, mistakes, misjudgements or mechanical faults, trivial in themselves but deadly in conjunction. So seems to be the case with the 737 MAX and its alarming tendency to fall out of the sky

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The classroom objective should be knowledge, discernment, judgement, truth, tradition, culture, seriousness and wisdom. That our schools have once more filled the streets with junior climate marchers is sad in itself, but so much more depressing for what it says about the crimped minds of a rising generation

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It was typical of Theresa May's almost autistic inability to understand the emotional needs of others that it did not occur to her to go to the scene of the great Grenfell Tower fire. That same flaw has been at the root of her many failures, be they Brexit negotiations, the treatment of foreign residents or jihadi brides

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Sheer stupidity and megalomaniacal ignorance are the fountainhead of Brenton Tarrant's 'manifesto' and his pitiless exercise in mass murder. 'White supremacy' is the nominated culprit, but that odious sentiment is the metastasised symptom of poor education, a disdain for critical thinking and personal inadequacy

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The many who doubt the allegations against Cardinal Pell have taken particular exception to the prosecution's assertion that he molested two choirboys while wearing the full regalia of a high Mass celebrant. This video further demonstrates just how implausible is that claim

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Facts can be complex, laws confusing and trials long. But the finding of the jury that judged George Pell is unaccountable. The verdict is not an indictment of Cardinal Pell, far less the Catholic Church as a whole, but of Australia’s mainstream media and Victoria Police

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Believers seeking protections for the fundamental right to religious freedom are finding their reasoned arguments fail to make purchase in this dawning 'era of feeling'. Fervid hostility to any public expression of religious belief said to offend, humiliate, or disempower the vulnerable is already erupting into a vile hatred for Christians

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Removing clear and unyielding Catholic voices from the public square has been the real goal through years of hearings, slanders, cancerous journalism and unprompted police probes. Today in a Melbourne court just such a figure was taken down. The Left is determined he won't be the last

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