The alliance between Leftism and the Islamists

Islamists benefit, in particular, from the access, legitimacy, skills, and firepower the Left provides them. Cherie Booth, wife of then-prime minister Tony Blair, argued a case at the appellate-court level to help a girl, Shabina Begum, wear the jilbab, an Islamic garment, to a British school. Lynne Stewart, a leftist lawyer, [...]

Shine completely gone now

AUSTRALIANS’ confidence about their jobs and the cost of living has crashed to its lowest since the recession of the 1990s, with pessimism in the community at levels last seen two decades ago when Paul Keating warned that the nation could become “a banana republic”.

In the past six months, the percentage of people who fear [...]