Boris 2029!
OK, it might sound a little fanciful, but hear me out. I think there could just be a way for Boris…
Liz Truss was the biggest loser of last night’s debate
Enid Blyton made a lot of money out of the Famous Five. Maybe she could have invented a brand called…
Brave new wombs
Sometime this century, or early in the next, women will no longer have to give birth. Already conception can take…
Dutch tolerance vs. the Great Reset
The Dutch are a tolerant people, and they have a long-standing reputation for that. I lived in the Netherlands for…
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Farewell to firm friends
In the space of week Australia has lost two great friends on the international stage. Within days of British Prime…
Brown study
The good news that has just come to hand is that the federal government has decided to keep as a…
Abe’s vision
The slain leader was a true friend of Australia and the West
The forgotten Liberal
Recognition of Malcolm Fraser’s achievements is long overdue
Trust plummets in US
The same forces are at work in Australia
B1 and B2 spell trouble
Bowen and Burke could make life difficult for Labor
Moribund on the Bund
Xi’s war on Covid is killing China’s economy
Rainbows and rubber bullets
The road to socialism is paved with public service platitudes
Disdain for democracy
Democrats don’t want to move to the middle ground on abortion
Coalition of the Perks
So many Voices, so little to show for them
Genesis of a Dreamcoat
Just the other day came the announcement that a new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat was to…
Aussie life
A younger cohort of visitors is heading for Bowen, best known hitherto as the home of the Big Mango, a…
Language
Here is a delightful phrase which may well become a familiar idiom in English language: ‘weather dependent economy’. I encountered…
Net-zero folly
Australia has been betrayed by its political class
Brought to book
You may already have read early reviews of Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion saying it’s ‘the worst adaptation ever’…
Resculpting the past
Rather than tearing statues down, Hew Locke believes in reworking them to highlight their place in our imperial history. Stuart Jeffries speaks to him
Shelley addict
Last week I heard the actor Julian Sands give a virtuoso performance of work by Percy Bysshe Shelley to mark…
Chekhov in a straitjacket
The Southbury Child is a comedy drama set in east Devon featuring a distressed vicar, Fr David, with a complex…
Nick Cave: Seven Psalms
Grade: B There has always been a seriousness and intelligence about Nick Cave quite at odds with that which usually…
Barometer
Hot hot hot The Met Office said temperatures may hit 40˚C on Sunday, which would be the highest ever recorded…
