Heartless Woolworths to start sacking unvaccinated staff
While many countries across the world have ditched Covid health orders entirely – declaring the pandemic over and the Omicron…
No, China isn’t about to invade Taiwan
I have a medal for winning the Cold War. And I’m not alone — they were awarded to all members…
Free things are not a ‘nappy’ thought, councillor
Buoyed by thoughts that Labor might actually be getting its act together, one of Sydney’s Inner West councils has come…
The working class of the world unite – against the Left
‘Working men of all countries, unite!’ exclaimed the last sentence of Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. Looking around the world,…
Catch 2022
There is a diabolical conundrum facing conservatives at the forthcoming federal election: how to get more conservatives into Parliament? Once…
Australian notes
Why on earth are we stopping people who want to work from working? I used to work at a community…
The hypocrites’ lobby
Where are our human rights ‘experts’ as Covid authoritarians strip away our freedoms?
Silence of the Lamb
‘God’s representative on Earth’ has nothing to say about China’s evil communist regime
Suffer the little children during Covid
Australian health authorities have treated our kids shamefully
Got a gun in my hand
The final scene in the brilliant television series The Sopranos is set in a diner where Tony’s family is gathered…
Richard Roxburgh
It’s not often that you get such a rapturous reception for a new show as Fun Home received and the…
Aussie Life
A journalist friend has been writing an advice column rather like The Speccie’s ‘Dear Mary’. He was calling it ‘Ask…
Aussie Language
A small award should be presented to the Australian’s Alice Workman for her new coinage. She has given us a…
Portrait of the week
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced, in the House of Commons, sanctions against Russia after its ‘renewed invasion’ of…
Low life
Every Saturday morning Michael rises at four and drives down to the Côte d’Azur to the Magic World car boot…
Dachshunds
Short of leg but big on personality, the eccentrically shaped dachshund is one of Britain’s most beloved pets. Originally known…
Puzzle No. 691
Black to play. Maric-Gligoric, Belgrade 1962. White has offered to exchange the rooks on f5 and c3. But Gligoric found…
Finding a voice
Howard Jacobson, who turns 80 this year, published his first novel aged 40. Since then he has produced roughly a…
The Theroux Paradox
In the latest episode of Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America, Louis asked a rapper called Broke Baby if ‘it’s important to…
