I’m still getting around to putting my thoughts on paper about Fahrenheit 9/11, although they’re well and truly mustered. In the meantime I’ve decided to collect any electronic reviews of Fahrenheit 9/11 that I am sent and publish them here, with the author’s permission of course. I’m not a lazy columnist, but it is luxurious […]

At a recent screening of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 the audience was less lively than I expected them to be. Where was the applause like that which erupted at the Cannes Film Festival or the vocal agreement with Moore’s representation of George W. Bush as a nitwit and lazy President who prefers Saudi money to […]

I’m going to do my own take on Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend. In the meantime one reader – Justice Marcus Einfeld sent this short comment in to me. Fahrenheit 9/11 has flaws but its basic message is powerful testimony to the grave sins which governments the world over are committing against their own and […]

THE Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair last week celebrated 10 years as Leader of the UK Labour Party. To mark the occasion, he has received very high marks on his service as Prime Minister from about as impeccable a source as it would be possible to find. Lord Bill Deedes is able to judge […]

Earlier this year the world was, if sometimes pruriently, appalled at the sexualised violence inflicted on male inmates by female soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Garnering less attention, but creating more victims, has been the systematic sexual assault of Sudanese women and girls as part of a strategy to capture Darfur, an area […]

As Ambit Gambit’s self-appointed commentator on some things gender, I thought spending an hour and a half in a suburban multiplex watching the new version of The Stepford Wives would supply the sort of ideas you’d enjoy to read my analysis of. Unfortunately, my desire to entertain was rewarded with a confused cinematic experience, saved […]

In today’s AFR John Quiggin argues that one source of savings from which Mark Latham could pay for policy initiatives would be the abolition of negative gearing. In passing John also blames negative gearing in part for the housing boom. contrasting it with the US where property losses are quarantined against the eventual profits made […]

THE recent media feasting over details of Mark Latham’s personal and political lives has probably not harmed his chances of being Australia’s next Prime Minister, but is the cause of getting the best candidates to seek public office the real loser? I fear it is. And that does not augur well for a parliamentary democracy, […]

It has been suggested that many women are abandoning paid work for the home. If this is an accurate appraisal, and not just wishful thinking on the part of some, then the Ladies Against Feminism (LAF) are surely this trend’s most radical faction. Armed with a Bible, an Edwardian Apron Pattern and the booklet of […]

Mark Latham’s performance on Monday was what I would call a “reverse smear” – it did to his opponents what he is claiming they are doing to him, and did it by playing the victim card. It is a legitimate tactic, but will it work? In this election campaign, one of the most powerful forces […]