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Book spins out in Galle

My book at first lived large and wide, visiting Ho Chi Minh City, Santorini, London, Lake Como, Ithaca, Scotland, the Bay of Naples, Dubrovnik, Fiji, Aileron and the Andes, before attending a christening in Newcastlle.

But then it got down to work in Kalgoorlie and the coal seam gas fields of Condabri, Queensland, before invading Australia’s most Left-wing Parliament - an experience which convinced one reader of the need to conduct an experiment at...

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UPDATE

My editorial from the latest The Bolt Report - on the Australian Communications and Media Authority accusing me of being “hyperbolic” for saying most Australians “aren’t stupid”, after it had to agree I was right to say that warming had essentially paused for 18 years.

On The Bolt Report and on radio tonight

On The Bolt Report on Sky News Live at 7pm tonight: 

Editorial: Rio wins gold for Leftist hyperbole.

My guests:

I go to a bar with PJ O’Rourke to discuss who is worse - Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? And which of us is most sick of these new bullies of the Left?

The panel: former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman and former NSW Treasurer Michael Costa on the free-speech sell-outs, Liberals in strife and the ACT’s dangerous...

The Twitter urinal has an echo

Chris Mitchell nails the danger of Twitter to journalism and politics:

Academic research has shown that in political terms social media skews left.

Twitter is the worst. I would call it little more than a left-wing echo chamber for various highly politicised activists, including many journalists…

Who, for example, could follow Channel Ten’s Paul Bongiorno or Crikey’s Bernard Keane on ­Twitter and ever imagine they were impartial reporters?…

Now for...

Shut up, the Human Rights Commission explained. UPDATE: Liberals help to ban criticism of Islam

The race industry denies you your freedom to speak your mind.

Now it also wants to deny you your freedom to tell it to its face what you think about its tyrannical ways:

The Human Rights Commission wants the public prevented from expressing views to an inquiry into the handling of a controversial ­racial hatred case against univer­sity students in Queensland.

The inquiry is examining complaints by three Queensland University of Technology students...

Muslim school boasts not one student is gay. Left looks away

They’d be ripped apart by the Left if they were Christian, but they’ll get away with this on the grounds of their approved faith:

The president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, which runs six schools across the country, has said students are taught they should not practise sex until they are married — and it should not be with someone of the same sex.

“This is something that is clearly spelt out in the Koran and the hadith, that sex is...

Column - Malcolm Turnbull does nothing in 11 months

IT is 11 months since Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister. What on earth has he done in all that time?

Last September, Turnbull said Tony Abbott had to be sacked because “ultimately, the prime minister has not been capable of providing the economic leadership our nation needs”.

But in the 11 months since Turnbull took over, name one thing of substance he has achieved.

Name one single thing that Turnbull has done that makes your lives better. Makes...

Could you trust your secrets with Clinton?

Hillary Clinton has had a shocking week, although she still leads in the polls.

Did her reckless use of a private server help Iran track down an informant for the US?

Hillary Clinton recklessly discussed, in emails hosted on her private server, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed by Iran for treason, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday… Cotton was speaking about Shahram Amiri, who gave information to the U.S. about Iran’s nuclear program.

The...

Book on a break

My book at first lived large and wide, visiting Ho Chi Minh City, Santorini, London, Lake Como, Ithaca, Scotland, the Bay of Naples, Dubrovnik, Fiji, Aileron and the Andes, before attending a christening in Newcastlle.

But then it got down to work in Kalgoorlie and the coal seam gas fields of Condabri, Queensland, before invading Australia’s most Left-wing Parliament - an experience which convinced one reader of the need to conduct an experiment...

Should Hanson really be bashed into silence?

This sounds far too much like victim blaming:

PAULINE Hanson cost taxpayers an estimated $1 million in police protection when she was last a federal MP and will again qualify for security if threats are made against her in her new role as a Senate powerbroker.

It’s not Hanson who is costing us that $1 million in police protection. It’s the Islamists and Leftist who threaten to bash and kill her.

Amanda Vanstone, now the kind of Liberal only the ABC (her...