Boris’s Tory enemies don’t know how lucky they are
It is often said that most Conservative MPs have a highly ‘transactional’ relationship with Boris Johnson. The inference is that…
The disinformation war continues between Israel and Hamas
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has started, and the gates to Gaza have opened for the international press. Now…
In praise of Kate Forbes’s Christian faith
Politics tends to attract people who consider themselves and their every mundane word and deed an example of great bravery.…
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Vaccine blackmail is unacceptable
One always tries to avoid resorting to hyperbole or comparisons linked to extreme events, but in this instance there doesn’t…
Biden’s perilous appeasement
How Iran declared war on the Abraham Accords
Israel under attack
And Biden is to blame
He go crazy: Josh hands down his Budget
How to make even Wayne Swan look prudent and responsible
A cynical Budget devoid of principles or beliefs
What’s the point of voting for the Liberals?
‘We have to save the country from lockdowns’
Yes, Prime Minister Modi, you do!
Destroyed from within
The United States now faces its greatest peril - itself
The fight for New Zealand is now underway
One country, two governments
Vaccine roulette
Are the Covid vaccines safe? You bet your life!
Applying the wrong industrial remedies
On industrial policy our governments are lazy
The Dry
It’s a hard thing, harder than it should be, to film a detective story. Is Billy Wilder’s version of Agatha…
Sydney Symphony Orchestra concert series
Last weekend’s sports pages told us that ‘the crowds have not yet been flocking back to the footy with pre-pandemic…
Aussie Life
Unlike most of the panellists on The Gruen Transfer, I still make ads for a living, and try to exercise…
Aussie Language
The Australian Breastfeeding Association has declared the word ‘mother’ to be ‘non-inclusive’. Does this make linguistic sense? Not for a…
Anti-semitism raises its ugly ahead (again)
Naturally, the elites blame the victim
The lives of mothers
There are few certainties in life. Death and taxes are the ones regularly trotted out. However, there is another that…
The great rule breaker
Philip Hensher describes D.H. Lawrence’s restless search of a new way of life
Teenage Fanclub: Endless Arcade
Grade: B– Advancing age has smoothed the edges of Bellshill’s finest lads, once — back in the early 1990s —…
Routine procedures
Among the horrors, some aspects of lockdown were bizarrely less gruelling than expected; indeed for some people, the experience was…
Flower power
Real Estate is the third and concluding volume of Deborah Levy’s ground-breaking ‘Living Autobiography’. Fans of Levy’s alluring, highly allusive…
Promises, promises
Charles Péguy’s adage that everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics is sharply illustrated by the development of the…
