Andrew Bolt's Blog, page 41

Please, China: don’t start the war until we’re ready. Give us 50 years

We face a potentially explosive confrontation with China now that the Permanent Court of ­Arbitration has ruled that China’s grab for the territorial waters of the South China Sea is illegal - a decision China has denounced.

Australia has just one request. Could China hold off on its response for 50 years? We should be then have the new submarine fleet we need for our defence under Malcolm Turnbull’s strolling-to-safety plan to build 12 submarines in...

No Voltaire: Voltaire defended free speech to the death; Aly blames freedom for Islamic terrorism

Author Paul Monk wonders why a free speech award is given to someone who neither champions free speech nor denounces the greatest threat to it:

On July 23, Waleed Aly will be presented with the Voltaire Award for free speech from Liberty Victoria. It would be rather charming were he to give a speech on that occasion reflecting on Voltaire’s play Mahomet, which depicted Islam as based on false miracles, personal ambition and ruthless fanaticism.

For some...

Thank you

Thank you so much for your support for the book. It has been out for less than two weeks and we have so far sold around 2300 copies in direct sales - go here - and are already getting strong re-orders from book shops and news agencies on top of that. We expect to have to order a reprint in a couple of weeks.

In fact, we have also now decided to republish my first book of columns, Still Not Sorry, which sold out in 2005. Stand by for details here.

To...

Ginsburg is a warning that the highest court is anti-Trump Left

The arrogance of the Left, its march through the institutions and its unapologetic bias in the exercise of its functions is also suggested by this extraordinary comment by US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has surely now disqualified herself from any case involving a Donald Trump administration:

“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” she said. “For the...

Conservatives have had enough and will fight

Janet Albrechtsen in praise of Senator Cory Bernardi, fighting where so many Liberals are folding:

Good on Cory Bernardi. The move by the South Australian senator to set up a home for those on the Centre-Right of politics in Australia is needed now more than ever. After an election that saw the Turnbull government barely scrape home, and more than a million voters chose an independent or micro-party in the Senate, conservatives have two choices.

Do...

Someone isn’t listening

Malcolm Turnbull would rather blame Tony Abbott for nearly losing this election than change one of the real factors - one of his own dud policies:

Malcolm Turnbull is staring down backbench demands for drastic changes to the government’s tax hike on superannuation, launching phone briefings with colleagues to defend the $6 billion package and insist on the need to legislate the changes as soon as possible.

He’s not listening again.

And he’s not heeding...

Who let them in? Why is this not openly discussed?

This African crime wave is astonishing, yet a lot of the media is too polite to make much of it. The latest:

RESIDENTS of a housing estate north west of Melbourne are living in fear of a gang of car thieves after two home invasions in the past week.

The latest break-ins come amid a wave of similar terrifying home invasions and carjackings across Melbourne in recent weeks.

Police are investigating whether the two break-ins in Plumpton are linked.

The...

Street sleepers

I yesterday walked a few hundred metres from Melbourne’s Flinders St Station to the top of Bourke St Mall and counted five people sleeping in the streets.

I was shocked. I have never seen so many homeless people in our streets before.

What’s going on?

UPDATE

This isn’t just a problem in Melbourne. In Sydney in January I was astonished to see on opposite corners of one intersection in the city centre three people sleeping rough, and a couple of others...

Moves against Kroger? The Liberals are sick

Is this serious?  Does this make any sense to people who judge by performance?

Malcolm Turnbull is facing a Victorian Liberal Party at war in the wake of the federal election campaign, with party president ­Michael Kroger to defy any ­attempts to unseat him…

Members loyal to former federal treasurer Peter Costello .... attack Mr Kroger over the federal election result.... Three Turnbull ministers — Mitch Fifield, Kelly O’Dwyer and Scott Ryan — are...

The real racists

Va’Shona Dixon gets it said on racism, Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump: