Business/Robbery, etc
Game of wolves
The Albanese government mantra regarding relations with China ‘we need to cooperate with China where we can, disagree where we…
Multiculturalism put to the test
‘Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world.’ Australian political leaders of all persuasions have often paraded this…
Pray for sensible socialists and compassionate capitalists, son
There it was again, in a report about what Minister Bowen is planning next – that dreaded phrase … ‘dramatic…
Mandate madness
The 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season was one of the worst in recorded history with fires burning across Australia for over…
Bowen should be goin’
It’s still not too late for Australia’s welfare, let’s hope, for the Opposition to call on the Prime Minister to…
Albo’s control of your TV is only the tip of the iceberg
With Communications Minister Michelle Rowland expected to introduce a ‘prominence’ bill this week, Australians should be very worried about the…
Does the ABS partner violence survey fall short?
Since the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its publication on partner violence, the widely reported statistic is that one…
A memoir: ruminating on multiculturalism
Although I do not harbour a principled objection to the writing (and reading) of memoirs – in fact, I enjoy…
Our ‘handsome boy’ in Beijing
Gosh, who knew the Prime Minister would be acclaimed as a ‘handsome boy coming from Australia’, as announced by China’s…
Your handy guide to unreliable activist journalists – published by them
We owe a debt of thanks to hundreds of journalists, and the media union house committees in the ABC and…
Punk Rock politics personified
Javier Gerardo Milei, Argentina’s President-elect, is the new face of punk-rock-politics. The unmarried, former soccer player, economics professor, singer, and…
The Net Zero lemmings rush
Australia’s ALP/Green government and their media mates are using subsidies, taxes, and propaganda in a lemming-style attempt to move the…
Airbus Albo flies off again and again
An overseas trip a month, the latest undertaken during a domestic political crisis – our Prime Minister has truly earned…
Interfaith solidarity must be a two-way street
Since the terrorist attacks on southern Israel by Hamas on 7 October (10/7), there has been a spike in recorded…
A post-Jewish London
The sacking of Suella Braverman as Home Secretary on 13 November was a watershed moment in modern British politics; the…
Sunak’s bizarre lurch leftwards
Not for Suella Braverman the old wisdom that revenge is a dish best served cold. It’s hard to think of…
Black arts faculty
The Queensland University of Technology is to establish a Faculty of Indigenous Knowledges and Culture. Damn, my grammar app keeps…
Israel falsely accused
The horrific 7 October terror attack by Hamas and the consequent yet expected retaliation by Israeli Defense Forces has resulted…
Business/Robbery, etc
Diversity not division. But Australia is headed the other way. When six former prime ministers joined to warn that Australia’s…
Crinks’ war on West
Australian school children protesting for Palestine will gladden the hearts of the Crinks. The Crinks is not a new millennial…
Sunak has doomed Britain to a total ban on smoking
It is an indictment of the intellectual vacuum in British politics that when a prime minister is looking for a…
The desperation of Olivia Colman’s climate change video
When you have a surname like Colman you might think it would be best to avoid appearing in an advertising…
Sunak doesn’t realise the trouble he’s in on immigration
As they headed into the autumn, Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives needed a gamechanger. Their gradual recovery in the polls…
Why is Sunak snubbing the Greeks?
Whatever position people take on the long-running dispute over the ownership of the Elgin marbles, there can be little doubt…
Kiwi life
Given the UK’s Rishi Sunak sacking Suella Braverman for saying what many others would feel – that the police were…
New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy
New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…
The worst Noel? Why Kiwis are turning against wealthy foreigners
Wealthy foreigners are flocking to New Zealand, but not all Kiwis are happy about their arrival: not least locals who…
Poetic justice in New Zealand
October 14 was a good day to be a conservative on either side of the Tasman. On the same day…
The mad cult of Doctor Who
When Doctor Who returned to wild acclaim in 2005, after 16 years off-air and about a generation of being regarded…
Ed Sheeran’s time is up
Who’s the worst pop star of modern times? Some might say that Adele sounds like a moose with PMT –…
Eye-batting nonchalance
What is it about the Egyptians that bewitches us? Ramses and the Gold of the Pharoahs opened at the Australian…
Tracey Emin and the problem with museum trustees
The Royal Academy has nominated Tracey Emin to be a trustee of the British Museum. There is quite a fanfare…
No nonsense in the kitchen
I rather bristle at newspaper column collections. They strike me as a bit lazy, a cheat’s way of getting another…
The last battle: The Future, by Naomi Alderman, reviewed
The sirens sound in the street. The lockdown order comes. The images on the television are of chaos and illness,…
The Duke of Windsor had much to be thankful for
Once a King is trumpeted as ‘game-changing’, a ‘trove of never-before-seen papers which shed fresh light on the maligned Duke…
A multicultural microcosm: Brooklyn Crime Novel, by Jonathan Lethem, reviewed
Would readers approaching this novel (although novel might not be precisely the right word) without any indication as to the…
The real problem with ChatGPT is that it can never make a joke
I have been reviewing books for nearly four decades – starting in this very magazine – and over the years…
Surreal visions: the best of this year’s art books reviewed
Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas first met in a gallery at the Louvre. Degas was standing, etching plate in hand,…
A choice of this year’s cook books
What a relief to find ourselves in a non-faddy cook book year. We are not being encouraged to chew only…
The horrors of the ‘Upskirt Decade’
The subject that Sarah Ditum addresses in Toxic is why the early part of this century was ‘such a monstrous…