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3 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Barry Spurr |Roger Franklin |Gabriël Moens |John McRobert
The literal-minded obsession with laity participation and a dumbed-down misunderstanding of what people are capable of appreciating have had a destructive impactMar 29 202515 minsLegacy media is billing the Opposition leader as a nasty clone of the US President, who at the same time is supposedly turning into Xi. One thing, though, is certain.
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3 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Barry Spurr |Gabriël Moens |John McRobert
The literal-minded obsession with laity participation and a dumbed-down misunderstanding of what people are capable of appreciating have had a destructive impactMar 29 202515 minsLegacy media is billing the Opposition leader as a nasty clone of the US President, who at the same time is supposedly turning into Xi. One thing, though, is certain.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Augusto Zimmermann |Gabriël Moens |Tony Abbott |Matt Ridley
Say you write of the Koran's admonition that apostates must be killed. Well the new 'hate speech' laws might put you in jailFeb 19 202512 minsFailure can be more instructive than success, thus does Liz Truss' memoir chart how government can go off the railsFeb 19 20259 minsThe great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Matt Ridley |Augusto Zimmermann |Gabriël Moens |Tony Abbott
Say you write of the Koran's admonition that apostates must be killed. Well the new 'hate speech' laws might put you in jailFeb 19 202512 minsFailure can be more instructive than success, thus does Liz Truss' memoir chart how government can go off the railsFeb 19 20259 minsThe great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting. The good drives out the bad -- or so I used to thinkFeb 19 202529 minsFor much of my life I have been a science writer.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Gabriël Moens |John McRobert
A cover story in The Economist, entitled, The coming food catastrophe, compiled sobering facts regarding worldwide food production and distribution. The story described how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was an attack on the food-bowl of Europe. As this dreadful war drags on, the predictions of this story, written over two years ago, manifest themselves today.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Gabriël Moens |Anthony Daniels |Oliver Hartwich |Amy Brooke
The just-passed under-16 social media law purports to safeguard kids. Perhaps, but it is another step towards a digital IDs for all Dec 11 202410 minsThorpe has a penchant for dressing in animal skins. Does she capture and skin her wardobe, and with what stone implements? Dec 11 20247 minsWho ever would have thought deregulating the housing market, as New Zealand has done, leads to cheaper rents?
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Joe Dolce |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Gabriël Moens
Things of which conservatives dreamed but never hoped to see are being fulfilled by a Trump administration. And now, alas, I have to leaveDec 08 202412 minsTrap has received mixed review, but I still feel it's a film worth seeing and thinking aboutDec 07 202414 minsThe Good Lord has form in using noticeably flawed people for His purpose.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Amy Brooke |Gabriël Moens |Dejan Hinic
The Good Lord has form in using noticeably flawed people for His purpose. The next US President certainly qualifiesDec 07 20244 mins"Officially in New Zealand it was 'Girls can do anything year'. I was instructed to make the boys in my story into girls"Dec 06 202433 minsBallistic missiles have heightened the risk of the Ukraine war sparking an even larger conflict. So far sober heads have prevailedDec 06 20245 minsDid God save Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania?
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Gabriël Moens |Dejan Hinic |Kevin Donnelly |Damien Freeman
Ballistic missiles have heightened the risk of the Ukraine war sparking an even larger conflict. So far sober heads have prevailedDec 06 20245 minsThe cost of living will surely dominate next year’s election, but Labor’s bid to stifle school choice will not be far behindDec 05 20244 minsThere was bipartisan support for constitutional recognition in 2007, and yet in 2023 it was utterly rejected. Why?
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Dejan Hinic |Gabriël Moens
On Thursday, November 21, Russia, in an escalation of its war with Ukraine, fired a new kind of missile at the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine accused Russia of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). According to the Ukraine and Defence Editor for Tortoise Media, this weapon is ‘designed for use with nuclear warheads and normally considered an instrument of Armageddon’.
