The service station problem: it’s becoming impossible to correct a mistake
My first award for intelligent design this week goes to Dublin airport for displaying a sign which reads ‘Lounges. Turn…
Dear Mary: How can I stop the book club gossip from snooping around my house?
Q. One of the members of our book club is particularly nosy and gossipy. I like this woman, but when…
Ian Botham’s Ozzie Chardonnay is too good for the convicts
Cricket is the most gracious of games. County grounds in the lee of cathedrals, village greens in the perfect setting…
The barking world of ‘doggo lingo’
Doggy sounds childish. ‘How much is that doggie in the window?’ asks the popular song. (The song title used the…
China’s organ grinder
Political violence is rare in Australia but a senior partner at a Sydney accounting firm gave a new ‘twist’ to…
Fighting back in the gender wars
Israel Folau is right to condemn gender fluidity and the push to get children and adolescents to transition. Folau also…
Brown study
The long march through our institutions goes on, and they are falling over like ninepins. The latest victim is the…
Business/Robbery etc
A real political crisis? Or just some local manifestations of the West’s worldwide collapse of rusted-on party loyalty that is…
Latham’s law
Somewhere, most likely in a bunker buried beneath the ABC, there’s a Left-wing laboratory working overtime at inventing new slurs…
Not your grandfather’s nuclear power
When Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s electricity market review passed through New York a couple of years ago, the team went…
On trade, Trump is the new Menzies
Our federal election is over but the US-China trade war rolls on. Overnight Donald Trump offered some free advice to…
Cane toads squashed by the bedwetters
I finally sat down and had a look at the new Scott Morrison cabinet. Wow! If you imagine a spectrum…
Climate Council crestfallen
Australia’s media will shortly run the following ‘climate crisis’ stories: London’s black cabs are going electric; UK offshore turbines are…
Detail from the cover of WINX
It is possibly lying on a Royal bedside table. Certainly we know that a week or so ago, a copy…
Albo – more of the same
Greeted by the naive as a breath of fresh air, the only significant difference Anthony Albanese has demonstrated from his…
The point of Cory
Writing in the Feb 24, 2018 issue of this magazine, father of the ‘del-cons’ James Allan asked a rather impertinent…
Donald Trump and the politics of Netflix
Given that there’s apparently no aspect of American life where culture wars don’t rage, the only surprise about Netflix’s latest…
Why the polls will be wrong about Trump – again
The great ceremonial game of poll dancing is gearing up for its quadrennial orgy. Headlines across the fruited plain bark…
John Setka and the Greens: a match made in heaven
The Greens, as a political brand of sorts, have made some remarkable headway towards establishing their spotless moral credentials over…
How Boris Johnson intends to approach the next stage of the Tory leadership contest
There was a huge cheer in Boris Johnson’s office when it was announced that Jeremy Hunt had 77 votes, sending…
Liberals must never forget the forgotten people
One month ago, on a polling booth in Labor’s Victorian inner west heartland of Gellibrand, about an hour before closing,…
The Boris campaign get the leadership final they hoped for
There will be sighs of relief in the Boris Johnson camp this evening after Jeremy Hunt won the second spot…
The case for locking Joe Biden in a cupboard
Most candidates for the Democratic nomination are struggling to be noticed in a crowded field. Elizabeth Warren details policy proposals.…
Give Tucker Carlson a Nobel prize!
The strong favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize this year is Greta Thunberg, a girl who lectures grownups about climate…
