Was Leonardo da Vinci’s mother a slave?
There is great excitement in Italy, which has spilled over into the British press: Carlo Vecce, a professor from Naples,…
The ‘sham subculture’ sparking panic in the Kremlin
Their two countries may be at war, but Russian and Ukrainian police have a common and apparently formidable enemy. That…
OnlyFans: the last stop for Western feminism
Barely a day goes by without tabloid publications spruiking a ‘good news’ story about some poor, oppressed woman or D-grade…
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Once upon a time
Once upon a time there lived a generation who believed they knew far more about the world than their elders…
Brown study
There is so much ill-informed commentary on the proposed Aboriginal Voice and whether it will generate divisive litigation, that it…
Oscars of Incompetence
And the award goes to... Jimbo!
Australian notes
The announcement of the route we will take to acquire nuclear submarines is good only in parts. Down the road…
Unfairy tales
Leave our fables alone
JFK knew what a woman is
Kennedy and I would agree on almost everything. Does that make him ‘hard right’?
Tartan trench-warfare
A Christian social conservative to lead Scotland?
Don’t axe QoVax
A priceless biobank with the answers to long Covid is threatened with destruction
Voicing doubt
When it comes to the Voice, Anthony Albanese is breaking all the rules for successfully changing the constitution. First, he…
Deathless dag
You need only pick up Tim Robertson’s Reliques/Pomes to know that you’re in the presence of a man with an…
Aussie life
A new Arts policy has been released to help raise the creative standard just as a balding redhead called Ed…
Language
The word ‘manifestation’ has been part of the English language since the 1400s. It comes from the verb ‘to manifest’…
Australia has already achieved net zero
What climate crisis?
Business/Robbery, etc
Union superfunds’ questionable assets need fixing
The missing million
There was plenty of miserable economic news in this week’s Budget: the highest taxes imposed by any peacetime government, the…
Restraint now, rewards later?
The paradox of Rishi Sunak’s premiership is that even though he became Prime Minister because of the economy, it’s the…
Who’s next?
Could it be Credit Suisse?
Crash test
We are in a new era of economic uncertainty
