The engineering Luddites and political breeze-testers currently in charge couldn’t even be bothered politely to acknowledge a 70-year-old Australian success story for fear of transgressing against the climate cult.
It’s not just Moscow that’s geared up for war. Beijing burns to overcome its ‘century of humiliation’ and resume its Middle Kingdom destiny.
One of the reasons Russia is now slowly grinding down gallant Ukraine is because the West has helped it enough to avoid defeat, but not to win.
The internal struggle on the right is not between conservatives and liberals, but between conviction and opportunism.
The Western world has never been more materially rich, or so spiritually bereft. Here is the antidote.
There have been few to match Ron Boswell as an honourable adornment to Australia’s public life. Among much else, his book is a reminder of how tougher times could produce better men.
We shy from the thought that Mariupol or Gaza could be us. But that’s what beckons if deterrence fails. We are still sleepwalking through lotus land.
If the US and its allies won’t further help the Ukrainians, the question must arise: how much stomach is there for any sustained resistance to a nuclear-armed dictator?
While the recent Australian Coalition government was far from perfect, Anthony Albanese is starting to make voters nostalgic for Scott Morrison.
This is a lively account of how one public life flourished and another collapsed into ignominy, with much to instruct anyone interested in the ingredients of political success.
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