by PAUL COLLITS – SEAN Connery’s most memorable line in The Untouchables, for which he won an Oscar, runs as follows: “You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to…
by PAUL COLLITS – ANYONE observing the trajectory of modern societies will be unable to avoid the conclusion that individuals, communities, regions, nations, their “leaders” and the world have been overtaken by collective stupidity. As Stephen Hawking said: “The greatest enemy of…
by JEAN CURTHOYS – COMMENTATORS from Right-wing media routinely make the claim that the Left has taken over our ruling institutions. This is the thesis of the Left’s “long march” through the institutions, from student revolts of the late 60s and 70s…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA’S bizarrely appointed Ukrainian Cardinal, Mykloa Bychok, was unsurprisingly fulsome in his praise for the late Pontiff. There are several reasons to tilt towards kindness towards the late Pope Francis. Francis was a managerialist, who brought HR to…
by FRED PAWLE – AS SHARK attacks become more frequent, the world’s leading boffins have convened on a tropical island to reassure us that a happy compromise can one day be found. Yet, there are not many consolations to being attacked by…
by ALEXANDRA MARSHALL – THE claim that “Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world” appears to be the dream that never was. That is not to say that multi-ethnicity doesn’t work. Australia has been an immensely successful multi-ethnic nation…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE war on Cardinal George Pell continues beyond the grave. How could it not? The stakes for the Mean Girls and their allies are simply too great. The battle lines have clearly emerged. On one side, we have…
by PAUL COLLITS – STEPHEN Jones – a politician of whom I had happily never heard, until this week – is retiring. He is taking his bat and going home. He is, appropriately enough, the Member for Whitlam. (Formerly it was called…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to force all local councils to hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26 — Australia Day. “I don’t want us to be divided. I want us to stand up for what we…
by FRED PAWLE – THE unchecked rape of hundreds of thousands of girls by monstrous men would, in normal circumstances, be enough for feminists to go into collective meltdown. Add to this one of the worst fires in modern history and those…
