Why Macron cancelled the King
Many on the French left were in buoyant mood on Friday after the success of the previous day. They claimed…
What’s wrong with the BBC?
Being a senior BBC executive has never been a guaranteed route to national affection, but the past few weeks have…
Why was the West so slow to see Putin’s true colours?
Cast your mind back just over a decade, to a charity benefit gig in St. Petersburg in 2010. Sharon Stone,…
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Clown show
From preposterously clownish Nazis to battery-powered campaign buses that have to be ditched in favour of diesel alternatives, the political…
I was wrong about Perrottet
But right about Matt Kean
Virginia rises to the top
The submarine decision is not only wise, but potentially hugely beneficial
Here comes that sinkin’ feeling again
We’ll be wasting a lot of money on these subs
Loving the aliens
...and the rocks, plants and trees
Misleading the young
The national curriculum substitutes raw emotion for hard learning
Brooding beauty
The prospect of a revival of Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote by the Australian Ballet in Melbourne is a reminder of…
Is China winning the Covid wars?
It’s easy to see who’s losing
Covid coming apart at the seams
The restrictions and vaccine narratives are fast unravelling
Keating’s vision for Australia
Obedient Middle Kingdom tributary state
Language
The charity Oxfam has come under fire for issuing a bizarre ‘inclusive’ language guide to staff. The 92-page report warns…
Stormy’s happy ending?
What’s bad for democracy may turn out to be good for Trump
Aussie life
Two weeks after our Prime Minister told us he will be attending the coronation of Charles III we still don’t…
Brown study
I am sure you remember The Year My Voice Broke. You probably also remember The Year of Living Dangerously. You…
The ghost children
The pupils who never came back after lockdown
The Boris soap opera
Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can…
Party games
Boris Johnson should not be forgiven for his handling of lockdown. He needlessly criminalised everyday behaviour when voluntary guidelines would…
Childcare: an inconvenient truth
Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that,…
