Had the purported one-night stand with a mattress actress come to light, Trump might have lost a few votes but only a few. Amorous misadventures never harmed Bill Clinton or many other successful politicians, including our own Bob Hawke. His real crimes were beating Hillary Clinton and leading Biden in the polls

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The first ex-president to be convicted and face prison. The undeniable fingerprints of the White House on the levers of justice. The pretense of impartiality indicted by the speed with which 12 typical New Yorkers reached their 34-count verdict. Trump haters are cheering, apparently unaware that what goes around comes around

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The Gameau/Cool alliance's astounding capture of the schools system should give those of us not prone to green fantasies pause for thought. With our schools producing a rising generation of programmed and brainwashed soon-to-be voters, good sense and sound policy will be in even shorter supply than is already the case

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Ever wonder how climate activists fill the streets with loud, anxious adolescents demanding 'climate action'? Well a good place to start would be the 'educational' films of Damon Gameau, which are peddling eco hysteria to millions of kids and their teachers

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It's fair enough to dislike a politician for his or her policies and even, truth be told, for reasons trivial as comportment and Plasticene smiles. But the reasons to detest Anthony Albanese, not just as a politician but as a person, are almost too many to list

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Stepping down as the founding CEO of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, Professor Simon Haines shared these welcoming thoughts with the last draft of incoming scholars. 'It’ll be up to you,' he told them, 'to show your generation how to move beyond a trivialising, conformist, divisive and often extremist mindset'

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The Prime Minister recently observed that current federal parliamentary terms are too short, needing to be fixed and extended to four years. Apparently this will help the political class better serve the citizenry. Even by the standards of Albanese & Co's brainstorms and rationales this is a very bad idea

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I am constantly struck by the economic ignorance dressed up as expertise. It pours forth from Treasury, from the Reserve Bank and, of course, from the economics commentariat. What all that suggests is that the ghost of John Maynard Keynes remains hard at work turning logic on its head

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The supposed torchbearers of the reconciliation project have played a significant role in platforming and promoting Aboriginal nationalism. It is relevant to ask to what extent the resilience of this ideology, writ large in the Uluru Statement and remote-area referendum results, is due to the reconciliation process itself

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How did he Gershwins, Benny Goodman, Aaron Copland, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein achieve such stellar prominence? Obviously, if you're of a mind to set up a tent on a university campus and voice your Jew hatred loud and long, it's not talent but a Zionist conspiracy

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Catch the Kuwarna vs. Euro-Yroke match? What's this you say? No idea what I'm talking about. Well shame on you! You're obviously a colonialist invader whose selfish wish it is to leave woke nostrums outside the stadium and watch a hard-fought contest. Well the AFL won't tolerate such bigotry, not now or ever

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"A rare letter comes from her mother. She’s still angry with Ronnie for leaving the island, for leaving a husband who provided for her. He’s pining for you, she writes. He says he won’t do it again. But Ronnie knows he will do it again, not because he can’t handle his drink, but because he takes after his father who was a wife-basher too"

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Nobody who identifies as a survivalist or prepper is ever likely to be invited to an Australian writers’ festival or any other gathering of the ideologically pure. Unless, of course, they’re the sort of cashed-up, grant-fuelled preppers who anticipate the destruction of our planet by climate change

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Israeli author Dina Rubina was invited to headline a a literary discussion in London about her many books, something she would have been delighted to do. Then panelists began demanding to know 'where she stands on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict' before agreeing to take part. Her response is a salty classic

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'I can hardly believe these MSO programme notes could be so ill-informed and so keen to whitewash an era of hideous tyranny and murder in the now-unlamented Soviet Union,' I complained some years ago. To my surprise, my gripe was taken to heart. I seriously doubt that would be the reaction today

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'Why do so many of us walk around with a palpable sense that something has gone fundamentally wrong,' wondered a speaker at the recent National Conservatism conference in the UK. Just how wrong and how disenchanted will become clear on July 4, when Britons go to the polls in Rishi Sunak's surprise election

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As the global jihad gathers momentum, is it too much to expect our political and academic leaders will realise it is their children and grandchildren who will be living in a future world their wilful ignorance of Islam's death cult is so rapidly bringing into being?

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The article you are about to read is comprised almost entirely of tweets posted by Australians concerned about free speech. As you continue, be aware each quoted tweet was monitored, recorded and filed in submissions to the Federal Court by the Office of the eSafety Commissioner

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Advocates believe it works not because of its firm evidentiary basis -- it is on very shaky ground empirically -- but because it has garnered so many citations from progressive academics. As the miseducation of Australia's children not only continues but gathers pace, the solution is a return to teacher-directed instruction

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Ron Boswell, my former parliamentary colleague, has produced a superb instruction manual for anyone wanting to make a mark on our public life. His prescription is simple enough: have strong principles, be a good listener; be largely indifferent to recognition or reward, and work assiduously for the people you’re pledged to represent

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Conservatives have been too tolerant, too lenient, too accommodating for too long, so mild-mannered we've become victims to our own passivity. Look at Their ABC, to cite but one example, and the succession of Coalition ministers too weak to insist it honour its charter. Look around, we're reaping what we sowed -- and didn't sow

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Xi and his coterie are going about the business of stealthily disintegrating the one power, America, standing in the way of the Middle Kingdom assuming its place as the dominant world power. For that to occur America must be broken and defeated, preferably 'without fighting', just as Sun Tzu recommended

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Speaking for myself, I'm very glad to have grown up in an era when seduction was alive and well, woke just meant awake, LGBTIQ+ were random letters and there were only two genders. Today's lusty Lochinvars face an entirely different world, one where taking precautions needs to involve rather more than prophylactics

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As Jim Chalmers' budget made no claims about Donald Trump and Russian puppetmasters, there was no opportunity for the ABC's Sarah Ferguson to take viewers on a globe-girdling flight of fancy. Instead, and to her considerable credit, she gave the Treasurer and his fiscal fantasies a thorough thrashing. Well done, Ms Ferguson

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