Coronavirus, climate change and C S Lewis
As I write this article I am about to board an almost deserted plane from Northern Thailand bound for Bangkok and then…
UK quarantines elderly as over-70s told: stay at home
People over 70 will be instructed by the government to stay in strict isolation at home or in care homes…
Will the NHS drop its trans obsession when peak coronavirus hits?
As coronavirus sweeps across the country, I am sure people will be reassured to know that the NHS is doing…
Revealed: Michel Barnier and France’s Brexit stitch-up
The glaring difference between the EU and British negotiating goals has been brought into plain sight. In readiness for the…
Every cloud – and cough and sneeze – has a silver lining
Our hearts bleed for the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark — sorry — Clover Moore. Look…
Karlie Kloss’s dad’s Facebook posts are now US government policy
Cockburn was admittedly a bit skeptical yesterday when he heard that Jared Kushner was seeking out advice for a federal…
What the government doesn’t yet know about the coronavirus
I understand a bit more than I did about what the prime minister, the chief medical officer Chris Whitty and…
Coronavirus confusion
With people swarming the aisles of our supermarkets grabbing every multipack of dunny paper they can lay their hands on,…
Brown study
As Chairman of Apologies Inc. I am pleased to report that we have had another bumper year and that business…
Short notes
Confessions of a Coronavirus vulture The luckiest man in the world is a financier friend of mine who decided two…
Aussie surfers riding a wave of hypocrisy
No fossil fuels: no boards, no wetsuits, no trips to foreign surf breaks
Euro notes
Auf Wiedersehen, Willkommenspolitik What a difference five years makes. In the European summer of 2015, a huge wave of illegal…
Simon Collins
A friend recently invited me to a Sydney gallery opening to see paintings by a group of first nations artists…
David Hallberg
The artistic leadership of a major performing company is, by definition, important. The Australian Ballet has a forthcoming vacancy of…
Listening to Leonard when the plague is coming
Coronavirus, death and despair... so plenty to laugh about, then?
In a class of her own
Who was the most influential figure in 20th-century classical music? Stravinsky? Pierre Boulez? What about Bernstein or Britten? John Cage…
Earthly powers
Exhibitions about fungi, bugs and trees illustrate the depth, range and vitality of a growing field of art, says Mark Cocker
When perving was the norm
Misbehaviour is a film about the 1970 Miss World contest that was disrupted by ‘bloody women’s libbers’ — that’s what…
Plumbing the depths
Two years ago, the counter-extremist analyst Julia Ebner decided she needed to delve deeper into the extremists trying to disrupt…
