There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice
David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder,…
Why the BBC keeps on blundering
The dust is settling on the BBC’s latest crisis over its sloppy editing of a Donald Trump video, but it…
The trans myth
On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament…
Protecting victims of explicit AI content online
This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’. The Bill is…
ABC of failure
Tens of thousands of Sydney radio listeners have deserted the ABC in the latest ratings survey. When this happens to…
Confused and cumbersome
Anne-Louise Sarks’ production of that dazzling dramatic opera Carmen at Melbourne’s Regent was sometimes lit like a Christmas tree, sometimes…
Aussie life
Lock up your babies, Brisbane; the Queensland government is considering lifting its ban on keeping dingos as pets. I had…
Language
There is an expression that is now quite common in America, although I don’t think I’ve heard it used in…
Climate ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’
Empower Australians to initiate constitutional change, as the Swiss can
Could a degree make you less employable?
A few years ago my employer, the advertising agency Ogilvy, introduced a recruitment scheme called ‘The Pipe’. It was a…
What’s Trump got to do with the price of turkey?
During last week’s excruciating Oval Office make-nice between an insultingly buddy-buddy American President and a fraudulently obsequious New York City…
Somali charity scams have come at a high price
Kenya Here’s why house-hunting in Nairobi, where I can’t afford to buy even a bedsit these days, gives me flashbacks…
What the newspapers reported in ancient Rome
Nero’s personal amphitheatre, recently discovered near the Vatican, was praised to the skies in the ancient Romans’ ‘newspaper’. The historian…
A Frenchman who does not drink wine is a disgrace
The world is in an even greater mess than was apparent. I am not referring to Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan or…
Dear Mary: Can I remain friends with someone who has a frozen face?
Q. A close friend of my own age, 52, has had various things done to her face and now looks…
