Hal G.P. Colebatch

My feelings have seldom been as mixed as when I watched Queen Elizabeth’s great Diamond Jubilee pageant on the Thames…

Tests of a nation’s honor have a way of coming out of left field. A Pakistani surgeon and senior medical…

A to TAS commenter wrote yesterday, “Everybody KNOWS who Jeremiah Wright is.” I’d like to tell a couple of little…

Australia is a nation where freedom of speech has appeared as solidly established as anywhere in the world. Today, however,…

The pro-government blog Russia Today, generally hostile to the West and the U.S., in one of its innumerable hagiographies of…

One point about the Obama Administration is significant but has been little remarked on — the global failure of its…

As tensions rise in the Middle East, the Straits of Hormuz, the Mediterranean and off the Somali pirate coast, the…

Writing here on July 21, I drew attention to the attack on the Murdoch press by Australia’s leftist Prime Minister,…

Here in Perth, Western Australia, we have just had the Queen and a number of Commonwealth leaders assembled for the…

Britain’s apparent determination not only to commit national suicide but to drag as much as possible of the developing world…