Guest Notes
Gender notes
The trouble with a double-X rating Having worked across several professions, started and run four successful businesses and having a…
Cricket notes
It was the claim of one of my past editors – Jenny Naipaul – during my 11 years of writing…
Canadian notes
I’m a virtue-signaller and I’m OK We have left Britain behind on this year-long sabbatical and are now in my…
Dis-con notes
Wrong way, go back My last Dis-Con Note (‘Watching and hoping, Mr Morrison’, 13/07/19) pointed out that, despite his ‘miracle’…
Euronotes
Re-stocking the knacker’s yard If there is an Englishman more hated by the European establishment than Boris Johnson, it’s Nigel…
ABC notes
Not the 7 o’clock news – brought to you by ‘their’ ABC Is the nation getting good value for the…
Dis-con notes
Watching and hoping, Mr Morrison With our post-election parliament finally operative, what can we now expect from the new…
Euronotes
The hybrid Boris Johnson How is it that the likeable Boris Johnson has become such a hate-figure? The British Left…
American notes
Impeach Trump! (yawn) I suppose it is necessary to say – again – that it is not necessary to like…
Fair notes
In the land of the so-called ‘fair go’ it comes as no surprise that the words ‘fair’ and ‘fairer’ seemed…
European notes
Inside the knacker’s yard Why should we care about the European Union’s elections? The most famous thing about the European…
Liberal Notes
Why we won
Election notes
At the Anglican boarding school I attended in England as a scholarship boy from the age of ten it often…
London notes
A Right shambles One of the glories of London is its vast Hyde Park and adjoining Kensington Gardens. On a…
Dis-con notes
How to Vote, conservatively With only a week until the election, we Dis-Cons (disaffected conservatives) face a dilemma. A Labor…
Campaign notes
Shorten’s bottom line Could Bill Shorten‘s ‘Hewson moment’ be a similar turning point in the Coalition’s election campaign? Such a…
Political notes
Trudeau & the Virtuecrats It is too depressing to say anything much about the UK and Brexit. Well over half…
Rhetorical Notes
In the somewhat distant days of my early manhood rhetorical language – that is language designed solely to persuade or…
Zeitgeist notes
The Inquirer section of the Weekend Australian March 16-17 kicked off with a veritable drum roll performed vigorously by editor-at-large…
Naval notes
Australian bravery ignored Incompetence, inertia and injustice mar the fighting record of our World War II Navy, and our government…
China notes
Australia’s China obsession: get over it The Chinese economy is slowing, and everyone except the Chinese Communist Party knows it.…
Catholic notes
My personal thoughts on Cardinal Pell’s conviction From what I can tell, this is the crime for which George Cardinal…
Kiwi notes
What ScoMo should have said to Jacinda ‘Thank you Prime Minister Ardern for those blunt comments just now in which…
Aesthetic notes
Earlier this week I attended a vast party thrown by Tim Storrier in Bowral to celebrate his and his twin…
Political notes
Refusing to accept the vote One sign of the collapse of political order in a country is the refusal of…
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