A-bomber-nation!
Peter Dutton has made a serious error in his comments regarding Thorburn and Essendon
Swerves of warmth and coolness
One of the great things about the Australian Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet is that the kids love it. Even the…
Aussie life
I have barracked for the Essendon football team since I was a youngster. Amongst the mementos of my childhood days…
Language
Now we tiptoe carefully into the area of the derogatory and offensive – those being the words used by the…
A very spooky Halloween
Warren Buffett famously said that ‘when the tide goes out, you see who is swimming naked’. Now that the tide…
PayPal and my sweet revenge
Dan Schulman, the president and CEO of PayPal, gave an interview earlier this year entitled: ‘The thing that separates good…
Diary
I was interested to see that amid the Byzantine intrigues of embattled Conservative panjandrums, two Spice Girls have criticised the…
Meghan’s wisdom
Meghan Markle has been urging women to define themselves as they see fit, with ‘your full, complete, whole-layered, sometimes weird,…
Barometer
Dying of heat The former government chief scientific adviser Sir David King predicted that the heatwave in mid-July could cause…
My hour tuning in to the night
‘That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency,’ wrote George Eliot in Middlemarch, ‘has not yet…
Moules mouclade
Mussels were probably the first thing I ate as a child that I knew at the time was ‘an acquired…
A house-price crash will be just one effect of the Kwarteng calamity
Where next for house prices? Clearly, they’re going down as mortgage rates go up – and my forecast in May…
University is supposed to be hard
If I seem to be bashing universities lately, they’ve asked for it. The prestigious New York University in lower Manhattan…
Solution to 2574: A Chinese
Each unclued Across light (including the pair at 16/7) is a SWEET and the unclued Down lights can be preceded…
Growth
‘You’re easily pleased.’ said my husband when I told him how satisfying I found a chance discovery. It was about…
Resistance isn’t futile
Two lessons learned from the breakfast buffet at the Hilton Hotel, Deansgate, Manchester. First, the plates are no longer minuscule,…
