Malcolm Turnbull is fond of proclaiming that Australia is a multicultural society, but this is loose talk. A multicultural society is a contradiction in terms, since common cultural understandings are the glue that holds a society together. Just look at France and the way its very fabric is ripped asunder

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The scathing eye that The Associated Press cast over Hillary Clinton's latest deceptions will make for an interesting election season if it marks the birth of a trend. Here's to the hope, a faint one, that the lure of a good story trumps Big Media's leftist orthodoxy

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It's going to be messy, Malcolm Turnbull's need to square the circle of his ruthlessly plotted ascent to the Liberal leadership with the revulsion now animating so many of his party's supporters. Be that as it may, there remains a role -- a key role -- for Tony Abbott

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It's going to be messy, Malcolm Turnbull's need to square the circle of his ruthlessly plotted ascent to the Liberal leadership with the revulsion now animating so many of his party's supporters. Be that as it may, there remains a role -- a key role -- for Tony Abbott

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The leftist political prejudice in Whitehall and the wider British establishment is as undeniable as the repeated and shameful shunning of Robert Conquest, chronicler of Soviet evil. As one wag put it: anti-communism may die, but anti-anti-communism  lives forever

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If you are bent on re-making society, first change or undermine long-held norms and values. Under a transforming officialdom, and with the police enlisted to serve as The Guardian's paramilitary auxiliaries,  the very concept of respectability is decried as "middle-class privilege", a stigma in and of itself

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The world is poorer for his passing, but his searing and accurate appraisals of Soviet evil will stand as enduring indictments of those calculating apologists and useful idiots who persist, even now, in making their excuses for Stalin and his murderous tyranny.

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Sensing weakness in the West, the absence of conviction and resolve, illegal migrants of all kinds pour into Europe. More drown. The problem gets bigger. And worse. Nations can only be generous if they feel secure. Australia has absorbed that lesson. The international community ... not so much

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Celebrating Magna Carta’s birthday is inevitably a complex and even disputatious matter. Historical events, especially those that still echo in our current politics, are subject to interpretation. Different ideological movements claim to be their best modern advocates. We read old phrases on old parchment and to our surprise we notice new meanings in them. And […]

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If defending rights becomes the preserve of bureaucracies and international courts, especially those geographically remote and intellectually abstruse, Magna Carta's freedoms will mean for the rest of us what David Cameron's recent inability to explain them implies: not very much at all

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