Brown study
Scott Morrison must have taken leave of his senses. His change to the national anthem, to delete ‘we are young…
Euro notes
Europe’s woke Iron Curtain Who could have predicted that the gulf between Europe’s west and east would still be there…
You can’t fight Tammany Hall
Fraudulent practices in the US election have been ignored because they suit the global elite
Business/Robbery etc.
Divorce – British or Chinese style It took Britain nearly half a century to correct its mistake. How long will…
Protecting girls from genital mutilation
Australian Muslims must promote respect for the law of the land
Speaking Our Language
The Australian language is one of the few bonds that still binds together the Australian nation. And, heaven knows, we…
New year pleasures
There are things to bring us pleasure in this new year. The opera has opened The Merry Widow (until 16…
Christmas Covid Outlaw
I was sitting with one other person in a sterilised public hospital reception area waiting to be tested for COVID…
Woke for kids
Now that hate-speech has been recognised as an act of physical violence, using non-problematic language has never been more important.…
People’s galleries
Ignore the activists, says Tristram Hunt, Alexander von Humboldt’s Enlightenment project, embodied in a flash new Berlin museum, deserves celebrating
A pan-European cheese dream
The best moment in the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Day Concert comes after the end of the advertised programme.…
What have we learnt?
So great have been the government’s failures over Covid that it would be easy to forget to give credit where…
High life
Gstaad Chekhovian boredom ruled supreme, but the loss of my luggage brought instant relief. Anger beats boredom by a mile,…
Bridge
It’s so much easier to play bridge well when luck is on your side. You’ve just doubled your opponents and…
Diary
Real men are not supposed to confess to feeling fear. But I am frightened, second time round, about the plague.…
Pig in the middle
It’s the Portuguese piglet you feel really sorry for. The diminutive (ready cooked) porker — a festive delicacy all over…
2488: Clueless
The unclued lights (one of two words), when paired, have something in common. Across 5 Fly eggs not at all…
Punishment stocks
Welcome to the sunlit uplands which, for me, contain small plastic tubs of stock, which is just the opening to…
Segment
In the aisle of Tesco I stood like one thunderstruck. It was not the print of a man’s naked foot…
