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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Mark Powell |Mark McGinness |Daniel Hannan |Christopher Akehurst
In terms of the filmmaker's craft, Conclave is a fine movie. Theologically, though, not so muchFeb 02 202524 minsWinston Churchill's niece, wife of Anthony Eden and an intimate of Greta Garbo, Countess of Avon Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, was one of a kindFeb 02 202514 minsWills and inheritances loom large in an immense number of English-language novels.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Christopher Akehurst
Not everyone will have noticed, but the strains of carol singing were heard less this past Christmas than in previous years. Not because of secularising councils’ anti-Christian campaigns or disingenuous protestations that public celebrations of Christmas ‘offend’ certain minorities, though all that plays its part, but because there are fewer churches to sing them in.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Akehurst |Andrew Roberts |Bettina Arndt |Michael Connor
At his age, the author must suspect he will not live to see the Australian republic for which he has campaigned so vigorously. The vicious, historically absurd blood libels he pours on the Mother Country in The Three Famines might well be seen as a cry of impotent rageNov 22 20247 minsThis week we saw the media alerted to play its part in Alan Jones’ arrest and public shaming.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Akehurst |Bettina Arndt |Michael Connor
This week we saw the media alerted to play its part in Alan Jones’ arrest and public shaming. The only thing missing was a nooseNov 21 20243 minsA Catholic speaker at a Catholic university decries abortion, his audience walks out and a grovelling vice-chancellor apologises. There's something very wrong hereNov 21 20248 minsHow ever did Warra Warra Wai's compendium of absurdities find favour with a major publisher?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Akehurst |Michael Connor |Kevin Donnelly |Augusto Zimmermann
A Catholic speaker at a Catholic university decries abortion, his audience walks out and a grovelling vice-chancellor apologises. There's something very wrong hereNov 21 20248 minsHow ever did Warra Warra Wai's compendium of absurdities find favour with a major publisher? Nov 21 202414 minsMichael Oakeshott captured in a few words the essence of a liberal education.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Daryl McCann |Christopher Akehurst |Roger Franklin |Timothy Cootes
The MEAA represents journalists but its endorsement of censorship leaves no doubt it doesn't represent journalism or free speechNov 08 202415 minsDespite the Voice's overwhelming rejection, the likes of Thomas Mayo and our cultural elites carry on as if never happenedNov 07 20248 minsHow did Robert Kennedy Jr come to team up with Donald Trump?
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Christopher Akehurst
‘Now, Jill, what would you like to be when you grow up?’‘I’d like to be an equal opportunity commissioner.’‘What a lovely idea. And you, Jack?’‘Yes. I’d like to be an equal opportunity commissioner too.’‘Oh I am sorry, but I’m afraid that’s not really a career for boys.’Poor Jack. He’s too young to know that in the world of equal opportunity one place you won’t find equal opportunity is in commissions for equal opportunity.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Akehurst |Nigel Biggar |Nick Cater |Jack Bulfin
test onlyOct 31 20240 minsgnited by the Left: Not everyone thinks the Culture Wars […]Oct 31 202420 minshen Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb was published in 1968, […]Oct 31 202410 minstest onlySubscribe and enjoy unlimited access to Quadrant Editorial and much more.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Akehurst |Darren Rix |Craig Cormick |Andrew Roberts
At his age, the author must suspect he will not live to see the Australian republic for which he has campaigned so vigorously. The vicious, historically absurd blood libels he pours on the Mother Country in The Three Famines might well be seen as a cry of impotent rageNov 22 20247 minsThis week we saw the media alerted to play its part in Alan Jones’ arrest and public shaming.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Akehurst |Mark McGinness |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Michael Evans
Charles III has been a frequent visitor, but this was the first time in more than two centuries we have welcomed a KingOct 28 20249 minsLeftism is for university campuses, certainly not for adults living in the real world, where there are ruthless bad guys and, over recent years, an America reluctant to play the global copOct 28 20244 minsThe Times summed it up in 1954: 'No nation acquits itself so valiantly in war.
