It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals ...

Whenever a new study of the Nazi regime appears, it is taken as a given that after Adolf Hitler seized power and became ...

It is rare to read a book about Cicero that likens its hero to a demagogue. Rome’s prosecutor of conspiracy and corruption in ...

Maeve Brennan (1917-93) was a supremely gifted Irish/American writer, whose work is periodically rediscovered, only to vanish ...

When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a ‘catalogue of cruelties’ at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response ...

My cat can smell depression. Another family cat could smell my stepfather’s dementia. They both became more affectionate and ...

As with so much of the rest of the Western world, Australians are demanded to ‘reflect, respect, and celebrate’ on their national holiday. Even if couched in the soft language of human ...

Attempting to sell one of my ‘world’s best ferry designs’ in the 1990s to a local but prominent ferry company, the unhappy manager, known as GF, eyed me suspiciously. ‘You were here before trying ...

I’m walking down the street on a weekday morning, heading for the shops to do some banking and check the post box, when I see a couple approaching from a distance. I am already anticipating how I ...

Whatever way you voted in 2016, I suspect that many of us have the same image of post-Brexit Britain. It is easier to capture in a cartoon than in prose but it looks something like this.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has had a rather good few months, with a number of opinion polls showing the Clacton MP’s party ...

Oh dear… it appears that birthday and greetings cards are sexist. This is, at least, the claim of a group of MPs who have ...