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24 May 2025 Aus
Labor’s telling porkies
Life
Aussie Life
Simon Collins
In the 1980s there was a popular watering hole on Sydney’s Lower North Shore called The Plum. Its popularity with…
Aussie Life
Kel Richards
I have wanted to write a column on ‘common sense’ for a long time – but it is a surprisingly…
Mind your language
Dot Wordsworth
‘Farage is no leader,’ said Rupert Lowe MP. ‘He is a coward and a viper.’ Cedric Hardwicke immediately came to…
Sport
Roger Alton
Without wanting to sound like a refugee from the 1950s, it was a shame that last week’s Cup Final was…
Food
Tanya Gold
After a week in which Israel triumphed at the Eurovision Song Contest with second place – western Europe is for…
Still Life
Catriona Olding
Two years ago, at five to eight in the evening of Monday 22 May 2023, I ran into the department…
Dear Mary
Mary Killen
Q. I was caught off guard last week by a busybody mother at my son’s boarding school asking us to…
No sacred cows
Toby Young
Caroline has gone on strike. At least, as far as cooking is concerned. Her case for downing spatulas is that…
Real life
Melissa Kite
The builder boyfriend returned from a trip to London to inform me he was being done for speeding at 32mph,…
The turf
Robin Oakley
Nearly always a thriller, Newbury’s Lockinge Stakes, instituted in 1958 and a Group 1 race since 1995, is an ever-welcome signpost…
Competition
Lucy Vickery
Competition 3400 invited you to write poems to mark YouTube’s 20th birthday. This challenge drew a large, accomplished entry which…
