It's no secret many conservatives are less than pleased with the Liberals, what with the party's radical wing holding views overlapping those of Labor and even The Greens. But to favour Labor candidates in five vital seats, as the Australian Christian Lobby is doing, represents a calamitous folly when the ultimate beneficiaries will be Anthony Albanese & Co

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I have read that Scott Morrison, fresh from an abrasive encounter with a testy pensioner, will continue to meet and greet. Good on him. No doubt Labor/Greens apparatchiks will try to embarrass him. Maybe, too, the Libs will be able to dig up a couple of bright sparks to embarrass Albanese. Who cares? No one, really. It’s pantomime

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I am in your debt, as is all the West, for revealing the true nature of your own country: its evil, its heartlessness and the inability of your people to know right from wrong. Above all, let me thank you for destroying -- admittedly with a little help from Ukraine's patriots -- the myth of your military's indomitable strength

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Lia Thomas' conflicted gender identity, if it is genuine, would seem a disability of the most beneficial kind.  Sorry about that – not politically correct, I know -- but the psychological torment of having been born in the wrong body, as they say, doesn't justify exploiting his innate advantage over genuine women.  It’s akin to a biological female taking performance-enhancing drugs

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The German strategist was clear: an entrenched defender has a 3:1 advantage over the attacker. After this, two outcomes are likely. If the defending force is sufficiently coherent, it will be able to counter-attack and overwhelm the enemy. Alternately, if they cannot maintain this, then the attacking force wins. It remains unclear which fate awaits Ukraine's invaders

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Feminist leadership, we’re constantly told, is more mature and empathetic than that awful ‘toxic masculinity’. Prove it, girls. Admit feminism was wrong to focus on anything other than equality before the law and equality of opportunity for women. Then apologise and move on before any more harm is done

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As Zali Steggall demonstrated in Warringah, the well-heeled can be persuaded to vote for a chimera, provided it is attractively packaged and feeds a desperate need to feel virtuous. That's a greater problem this time than last for Morrison & Co., whose focus on Anthony Albanese might well see it outflanked by the seductive charmers of Climate 200

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Joe Biden wasn't supposed to say out loud that Putin needs to be ousted, which he did to the further chagrin of the White House spin team now so used to 'walking back' their leader's brain-freeze gaffes and outbursts. For once, though, this President has blurted out a truth that goes not only to the heart of the ongoing Ukraine catastrophe but also the very purpose of NATO and the UN

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A recent email from the bureaucrats charged with the care of those who have served Australia in the armed forces seemed standard issue boilerplate ... until I reached the sign-off logo at the foot of the missive. That's when I saw not only red but all colours and iterations of the rainbow

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The wretches who endured a living death in the Soviet Union's labour camps maintained a defiant dignity in six crisp words: 'Don’t trust. Don’t fear. Don’t beg'. As Putin's troops brutalise Ukraine, those three principles should be at the very core of the West's reactions, not only in the short term but until Russia genuinely throws off the shackles of despotism, aggression and paranoia

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