Baton of iron
The Choral Directed by Nicholas Hytner Starring Taylor Uttley, Ralph Fiennes, Mark Addy, Carolyn Pickles. If it were in a…
Being Hermann Göring
Nuremberg Directed by James Vanderbilt Starring Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Rami Malek, Leo Woodall Before last Monday, the most recent…
Shaggy dog tale
I thought it would be impossible to make a bad film about a dog but the production team for The…
Australian art in the Roaring Twenties
The only criticism that can be levelled at For the Fallen by Paul Paffen is that it lacks the hard…
Anatomy of fiction
By more than a mile the best book I have read during the pandemic is Tim Finch’s Peace Talks. It…
Spy who came in from the EU
I read Mr le Carré’s latest spy novel, Agent Running in the Field last weekend, despite everything. What do I…
Australian diary
Although it is a winter of discontent in Europe, there was little overt evidence of it in Vienna. It was…
Australian diary
When I visited India as a tourist 47 years ago I was told that the population of Delhi was about…
