Teamwork? It’s not the American way, even in the Ryder cup
For a nation which gave us a brilliant TV show called Band of Brothers, the Americans find it hard to…
Dear Mary: what do you say to neighbours who find you in your nightdress?
Q. I recently gave a jolly dinner for eight friends (some old, some rather famous), all home cooking, ending with…
Can my inner feminist cope with another restaurant named after a prostitute? Cora Pearl reviewed
Cora Pearl is the new, and second, restaurant from the people who made Kitty Fisher’s in Shepherd Market, Mayfair. Kitty…
Was everyone a psychopath before 1909?
My husband is enjoying Do No Harm, the arresting memoir of the brain surgeon Henry Marsh who was on Desert…
Fish or bear’s paw?
Last century, when Mao ruled China, shop assistants repeated daily, ‘We don’t have any more’ (Meiyou). I heard the phrase…
Reds on the red carpet
For the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who watched Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969, there are…
Kiwi notes
The adoration of Ms Ardern I am just back from a week in New Zealand where my family and I…
Castration of the male?
Expect the US Supreme Court, still captured by political activists, to downgrade men’s rights within the decade, with honorary ‘feminist’…
Troubled land
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.– Rudyard Kipling, ‘Letters from the East’,…
The Left’s libricide
Recently, Erik Jensen, founding editor of the Saturday Paper and convener of the Horne Prize for essays, had been so…
Dis-con notes
ScoMo’s (recommended) manifesto Everyone seeking, like myself, to avoid a Labor government must wish Prime Minister Morrison well. However, in…
Artists of The Australian Ballet
There is a lot of dance news about at the moment. The Australian Ballet’s new version of Spartacus, to the…
New prophets of doom
Picture a scene. A cowed audience is gathered to listen to a wise man. He tells them that he has…
Business/Robbery etc
You won’t find it in the headlines about the Hayne Royal Commission’s 1,000-page interim report that slammed the greed, ‘profit…
Brown study
The political world has been consumed by two big issues, one here and one in the US, and I have…
Juvenile and clueless
‘Juvenile and clueless’ is how the Australian’s esteemed Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly deems the suggestion by Liberals and conservatives (including many…
The week in the world of misandry
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. A 39-year-old…
Let this rape survivor tell you: fake rape claims harm
A person doesn’t forget the date, year, time, place and environment in which they were raped and I should know.…
Marise and the Mad Mullahs
Marise Payne is the new Foreign Minister of Australia; she will be an even more pareve version of Julie Bishop.…
How Ford denied Kavanaugh a defence
It isn’t that Dr Catherine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee alleging attempted rape by Judge…
How Fred Flintstone flattened the Iron Curtain
On September 30 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour…
Ten flaws with Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony
I once heard of a young woman who decided to become a Christian after reading a single verse from the…
Brett Kavanaugh has religious protections against lunatic left-wingers. We don’t
I am sure you all remember that old poem by the German Lutheran Pastor, Martin Niemöller. No? Then let me…
The ‘tampon tax’ is not sexist. Removing it is
The price of a name-brand pack of ladies’ sanitary pads with wings is around $5.00. A packet of name-brand extra-absorbent…
