Mad men plotting
Fifteen years ago, A.M. Homes published The Mistress’s Daughter, an explosive, painful account of how she met her birth mother,…
What Charles shouldn’t do
One of the most regrettable trends of the past few decades is the creep of politics into every aspect of…
A home between worlds
When asked what it is we do, translators often resort to metaphors. We liken the act of translation to performing…
A dose of sanity
Listening to BBC Radios 3 and 4 over the past week has been like meeting an old friend who, after…
Roundheads on the run
When Charles II became king of England in 1660, he pardoned most of those who’d committed crimes during the civil…
Andrew Laming: how the media destroyed my life
Cancel is without antonym. It is decisive, brutal, and irreversible. Like a ticket punched and chad obliterated, it’s not something people…
Europe detransitions
Australia left behind as Europe distances itself from extreme gender affirmation
For the state funeral mourners, the endurance is part of the ritual
The queue snakes for miles along the South Bank. Thousands of ordinary people are giving up hours of their time…
The moment that showed the madness of gender ideology
Homosexuality was legalised in England and Wales 55 years ago. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 permitted homosexual acts between two…
Could Putin still trigger nuclear war?
The world is facing the prospect of its first nuclear attack since the US Air Force dropped atomic bombs on…
Even Xi is unimpressed with Putin’s bungling autocracy
To say that Vladimir Putin is giving autocracy a bad name is rather to state the obvious. But it now…
King Charles should let Harry back into the fold
First, it was a flagpole. Back in 1997, inside the Windsor bubble based at Balmoral – where the priority was…
The morality of the EU’s gas grab in Azerbaijan
My enemy’s enemy is my friend. This ancient proverb partly describes the EU’s fast developing relationship with Muslim Azerbaijan, a…
It’s wrong to ban China from the lying-in-state
Unlike some Americans, China’s communists have no problem getting their heads around hereditary monarchy. Last week, President Xi sent his…
Why Harry has been allowed to wear his military uniform
P.G. Wodehouse once wrote that ‘it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray…
The inconvenient truth about France’s forest fires
Montpellier Last month the Prime Minister of France, Elisabeth Borne, visited the south-west of the country to offer her support…
Viktor Orban is facing pressure from the right on abortion
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has become a towering figure in European politics over the past 12 years thanks to…
Divorcing the TQ from LGB
The LGB is divorcing the TQ and there is a court case. While the world’s eyes are on Britain changing…
George Clooney loves Aussie lockdowns
George Clooney has praised Australia’s harsh Covid lockdowns, telling Network 10’s The Project the lockdowns were impressive. Then again, Mr…
Majestic memories in Victoria’s Mallee
The cars and utes are beginning to gather around the small, corrugated iron and weatherboard hall at the tiny township…
Climate Change 101
With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (foolishly) declaring it ‘entirely appropriate’ last Sunday that King Charles III should continue advocating for…
The future of Australia’s monarchy
Sombre recent events have driven pause and reflection, not only upon a life of great service, but on Australia’s connection…
