ANY INQUIRY into fake news is much like having a royal commission into the make up and motivation for halal food. (The latter absurd proposition has been put forth by a few Australian politicians irritated by the Islamist bogeyman.) Neither mission is particularly helpful, other than to illustrate a mounting ignorance about a phenomenon that always was.

WASHINGTON — In just his first 10 days on the job, President Trump has already signed two proclamations,  seven executive orders and seven presidential memoranda. He's invented a new form of presidential directive — the national security presidential memorandum — and signed three of those.

One Nation's candidate for the seat of Pilbara in the West Australian election is standing by an article he wrote saying taxpayers should not support single mums who are "too lazy" to attract and hold a mate.

The pastor of a largely immigrant Catholic church in Queens has a suggestion for his anti-Trump parishioners — go take a flying leap off the nearest building.

“Show your hate for Trump. Do it for social justice. #JumpAgainstTrump,” read a meme posted by Father Philip Pizzo just hours after he celebrated Sunday Mass.

New South Wales' new Minister for Women Tanya Davies has come under fire for her pro-life stance on her first day in the job.

Apparently, Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump haven’t read any Frost.  More’s the pity.  They could each save themselves billions to know that walls don’t keep invaders, infiltrators and criminals out.

Whatever one can say about Trump is that he has declared war on the wrong side of Muslimdom. The country that does not feature in his edict of Nantes revocation is, you've guessed, Saudi Arabia and all the nasty gulf states that peddle niceness and airlines on the one front and support terrorists on the other. But the people who are suffering are the Shia kind, because the US hate the Shia kind, not so much because they support terror like the Saudis but they don't kneel in front of the Emperor — no, the Emperor is not Donald but the US DOLLAR — and most of the Shia are supported by RUSSIA...