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Forking the Tone: An affair to forget

Last week, we were treated to two unedifying spectacles — Cardinal Pell in Rome, and the media ...  
Cardinal Pell: Cut from a different cloth

The lack of accountability in Cardinal Pell's evidence before the Royal Commission is more indi ...  
EXCLUSIVE: Former HK Governor Lord Chris Patten is George Pell's spin doctor

Former Hong Kong governor and chair of the BBC as news of Jimmy Savile's crimes on children were ...  
Southwell Report: The truth about the so-called 'exoneration' of George Pell

Cardinal Pell was not 'exonerated' of claims of child sexual abuse, as has been claimed, by an ...  
Will Syrian Kurds defeat ISIL , helping Democrats win White House in 2016?

ISIL's defeat in Syria in 2016 would vindicate Obama's strategy and bolster the security creden ...  
EXCLUSIVE: Church victims seek leave to appear with Cardinal Pell in Rome

Lawyers for Catholic Church sex abuse victims are applying to the Royal Commission for leave for ...  
Is Israel planning a new war on Gaza?

Is Israel's new threat of another war on Gaza a plan to drag Palestinians into armed violence to ...  
Sam Harris takes Noam Chomsky to task for equating Western crimes with 9/11

Sam Harris, author of best-seller The End of Faith, took Noam Chomsky to task for equating Western ...  
Jews and Arabs kiss in protest at Israel's banning of best-seller

When the Israeli Ministry of Education banned the novel, Borderline – the story of a love affair ...  
ISIL (Daesh) threatens to attack Saudi Arabia after executions

Professor Juan Cole examines an article in Daesh's weekly magazine al-Naba (News) depicting the ...  
All I want is a Christmas Pell

All contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence wants is cowardly Cardinal Pell to come back home ...  
Abbott gets it wrong again. And again.

Deposed prime minister Tony Abbott has yet again exposed his deep ignorance of important matters ...  
ISIS fails to maintain anti-Muslim bigotry

ISIS is a misrepresentation of the Quran and does not reflect the true Muslim teachings — Bilal ...  
ISIS or Daesh!

Calling Daesh 'Islamic State', 'ISIS' or 'ISIL' serves the policy of this radical organisation and ...  
Cardinal Pell, his lawyers and the Royal Commission

Given the high degree of scrutiny applied to Pell by the commission and the media, Father Frank ...  
The Royal Commissioner, the Bishop and the Nazis

Why does Dyson Heydon hold up a man complicit in history’s most shocking crime, who denied the ...  
The Grand Mufti was right

You’d be forgiven for thinking, after reading the mainstream media and hearing some politicians ...  
How Islamic law can take on ISIS

We need to demystify ISIS as a criminal organisation and counter its interpretation of Sharia says ...  
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