The MSM finally waves the right red flag
Beyond the shameless partisanship and lack of trustworthy professionalism lies a deeply disturbing truth. The mainstream US media — and I include…
Don’t put a pox on vaccination opponents
Letitia Wright is a talented, award-winning Guyanese actress who has broken the glass ceiling in superhero cinema and Hollywood. There’s…
Is America still a democratic republic?
‘Disappointed but not surprised.’ I suppose that describes my initial feeling about the summary dismissal by the Supreme Court last…
Eton mess
The Duke of Wellington, one of England’s most celebrated and honoured military figures responsible for defeating Napoleon at the Battle…
US Supreme Court ends Trump’s last hope
This is the end, my only friend, the end. The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Texas’s legal bid to challenge…
Britain is still failing to confront Islamism
How time flies. In March 2014, quite out of the blue, I was commissioned by then prime minister David Cameron…
The madness of Green Kean
The New South Wales Liberal government of Gladys Berejiklian has embarked upon the most reckless and unprecedented assault upon the…
Cultural notes
Warts and All Memorial As its name makes clear, the Australian War Memorial exists to memorialise the service and sacrifice…
Australian notes
Covid-19 and anti-Semitism In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Australia and the disruptive economic and social impact of Covid-19,…
Business/Robbery etc.
Wolfensohn’s success was Australia-based The glowing world-wide obituaries detailing the remarkable achievements of expatriate Australian James D. Wolfensohn who died…
Ned Kelly
All the young millennials I know were raging in Melbourne the other Saturday night and so were some of their…
Office boy
For most of us, going to work means going to an office, to sit at a desk and perform bureaucratic…
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Time to look to the future; performing arts companies are encouraging us to do so through their subscription seasons now…
Aussie Life / Language
Simon Collins Contrary to popular belief, the largest and deadliest constrictors do not kill with speed and ferocity. Rather, having…
Brown study
I am glad that at long last the ABC has exposed the toxic sexual atmosphere that exists in Parliament House,…
The importance of giving offence
As dons at Cambridge vote on a new protocol on constraints to free speech, we mark this month the 500th…
Recorded delivery
For an orchestra to lose one anniversary concert may be regarded as unfortunate. To lose two? Welcome to 2020. The…
Slaves to hunger
‘It was a gray mass of people in rags, lying motionless with bloodless, pale faces, cropped hair, with a shifty,…
The science of scent
Harold McGee’s Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells is an ambitious and enormous work. Indeed it’s so…
