Austria is becoming a nightmare for the unvaccinated
Salzburg, Austria Across Austria, the streets are alive with the sounds of drums and cow bells. Ever since the Austrian…
Boris’s biggest mistake was taking his allies for granted
It is often said that there are few convinced ‘Boris-ites’ to be found among the ranks of Conservative MPs and…
The battle for ‘based’
Earlier this week, a pair of right-libertarian journalists announced the launch of their new site, BASEDPolitics. All hell promptly broke…
Will the media ever be honest about Joe Biden?
Joe Biden usually likes being compared to Donald Trump. During the 2020 presidential campaign the media often contrasted the two…
Is Covid crushing the Australian spirit?
The media and state governments have irrevocably destroyed our innate mental and emotional stability by pitting Australians against each other.…
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Don’t turn tennis into Tampa
Not since the deportation of Joe Cocker in the dying days of Billy McMahon’s government has there been a celebrity…
I don’t give a RATs
And neither should the government — don’t hand out tests for free
Catch 2022
Damned if you’re vaxxed, damned if you’re not
Diary of a Covid Heretic
Brits are more rebellious than Aussies
Pandemic wokeness
With a bit more courage we can reach herd immunity
Rules are rules
The slogan of anti-democratic autocrats
Lithuania backs Taiwan despite Beijing bullies
The West needs to unite in defence of rules-based order
Dodgy sex
Parliament House is no different to other workplaces
Sydney diary
The Test matches between Australia and England in Australia have not been much of a test of the Australian side.…
Communists down under
When I was a fifteen-year-old student at Melbourne High School, I tried to join the Communist Party of Australia. One…
West Side Story
How strange to revisit the Nova in Lygon Street, Carlton, where a lifetime of films have been experienced, after an…
Aussie Life
I am writing this in Old South Wales, in the visitor suite of my mother’s assisted living facility. When I…
Trump is right
The election was rigged It was inevitable that 6 January would be used in a desperate attempt to breathe life…
Aussie Language
In his column in the Weekend Australian just before Christmas demographer Bernard Salt expressed his fear that the Australian language…
Marmalade
The spectrum of ‘bestowing homemade gifts on one’s friends’ ranges from giving to foisting. Pure giving is when you make…
2535: Green light! Cross!
In this pangrammatical puzzle, the unclued lights are of a kind near 21A. Ignore all accents. Across 7 Fresh…
Puzzle no. 685
White to play. Maxime Lagarde-Thai Dai Van Nguyen, Reykjavik 2021. Lagarde found a brilliant finish, forcing mate in just a…
All human life is here
When is a life worth telling? The Soviet writer Konstantin Paustovsky’s six-volume autobiography The Story of a Life combines high…
The new immortals
In the world of books, a modern classic is an altogether more slippery thing than a classic: it must walk…
