The errors identified by the High Court in the Victorian Court of Appeal's majority ruling against George Pell were no trivial missteps. Justices Maxwell and Ferguson were judged to have misapprehended their role in assessing jury verdicts, which a layman might capture in two simple words, 'gross incompetence'. That Victorians have been denied an explanation for this travesty furthers the disgrace

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I don’t think Trump’s return is very likely. Four years is a long time when you are his age. But who else? None of the GOP primaries candidates he faced in 2016 looks up to the job of taking on the media, the swamp, the Chinese, Iran, North Korea, the Palestinians, the Europeans – day in and day out, without wilting

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The urbane, charming and well-heeled Vincenzo Muccioli was generally reckoned something of a saint for his work with Italy's drug addicts. Then the battered corpse of a recovering junkie turned up in a village tip. It soon emerged that things at his sprawling San Patrignano rehab centre were nothing like what they seemed

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The appearance of scuttling invaders in a neat and tidy home can be most disconcerting, but they at least have the decency to slip under the nearest skirting board when the lights go on. The opposite applies to the national broadcaster, which keeps a narrow spotlight on its own slants and passions while leaving viewers in the dark

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If professed conservative politicians won't fight for conservative causes, what good are they? In light of the looming and certain passage of Victoria's Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill, an opposition that won't push back needs replacing with one that will

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The long march of Pascoe’s fake history into the education system and popular imagination is well advanced. Given the fauxboriginal fiction writer is now a professor of 'indigenous agriculture', how long before the university history faculties succumb completely is anyone’s guess. Mine would be sooner rather than later

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A team of cyber-security analysts, all with backgrounds in defence and national security, has conducted a court-authorised forensic examination of voting machines in Michigan's Antrim County. The conclusion: the Dominion voting machines don't merely allow fraud, they are specifically designed to facilitate it

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This month marks 75 years since the publication of Nancy Mitford's 'The Pursuit of Love', whose title was suggested by Evelyn Waugh and which barely masks its inspirations in the author's infamously eccentric family. Even at such a distance of years the novel remains as witty and amusing as the memory of the woman who wrote it

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For those who still regard the State as servant, not master, to see a significant section of the population bleating its approval of a pyjama-clad lady's arrest for no greater crime than a dissident Facebook post was to despair. COVID isn't the only plague. Amongst conservatives, an epidemic of spinelessness

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A recent judgment in the UK offered the commonsense opinion that children and teenagers are unable to give informed consent to taking puberty blockers. In Australia, however, the trans movements' advocates have yet to be brought to account

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