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

Read More

Apart from his military triumphs over Russia's smaller neighbours, Vladimir Putin remains a leader of no moral or visionary seriousness. It is this absence of an ideology, as Quadrant's Daryl McCann noted in this 2012 review which we republish today, that underscores the politics of thuggery and a hoodlum's propensity to terminate all and anything causing him grief

Read More

Washington’s commitment to the Quad alliance and AUKUS is an obvious if belated response to the ambitions of China in the Indo-Pacific region. Other than that, Joe Biden’s charting of US foreign policy has so far encompassed no more than a jumbled and contradictory permutation of Obama-style appeasement and Trumanesque containment

Read More

Simon Holmes à Court claims his 'voices of' candidates represent the sensible centre, which is exactly the same turf on which the Liberals here in South Australia also claim to stand. Really? A 'conservative' party that endorses euthanasia and the latest of late-term abortions is 'moderate'? I don't think so. I believe, though, I have found a genuine, principled alternative

Read More

Why were West's elites and their media handmaidens so ill-disposed to countenance COVID's origins in a PRC bio lab almost within spitting distance of the first cases, as Sharri Markson wonders in 'What Really Happened in Wuhan'? Whatever the reasons, the likes of Paul Barry and Media Watch did Beijing proud in their efforts to deny the blindingly obvious

Read More

The US was in Al-Qaeda’s sights long before September 11 and it is fair to suggest that Washington’s my-enemy’s-enemy-is-my-friend Cold War realpolitik played a part in bringing about the attacks. But if 9/11 was in any way a consequence of US foreign policy, the larger truth is that Osama bin Laden was the product of an Islamic revivalism that failed to revive Islam

Read More

The woke mob, empowered by the omnipresence of social-media platforms, makes everyone a potential victim -- prey to be hunted and hounded with the encouragement of organisations, like the ACLU, whose former purpose has been subverted by naked politics. Andy Warhol was wrong. It's not fifteen minutes of fame we can all expect, but fifteen minutes of shame

Read More

Helmsman Xi's conceit is that the Party, the nation and the people are one and indivisible, and that the CCP has always 'loved the Chinese people'. It's a claim so brazen it invites the quip that relieving millions of their lives is a peculiar way of showing it

Read More

If you can make a fact-pattern fit the shape of your screwball ideology, then reality is a mere distraction. Such has been the template Hamas operatives once more have lavished on the eagerly gullible -- or is that mischievously partisan? -- Western press: ravenous Jewish wolves vs. innocent, peace-loving unarmed Palestinians

Read More

The CCP's great conceptual innovation in the post-Mao era has been to build on century-old fabrications to create a racialist nationalism that conveniently intertwines notions of 'China', 'the people', 'the government', 'the nation-state' and 'the Party'. The fact of the matter is that China has never been a nation-state in anything resembling the European sense

Read More