Dear Mary: My friend always has food around his mouth. How can I help him?
Q. A dear friend of my husband, a shy bachelor, is an acquired taste. Once you acquire it you are…
Tradition and terroir: the new reign in Spain is producing great results
The Kingdom of Spain always sends outstanding ambassadors to the Court of St James, none more so than the appropriately…
‘Living with’ is now a thing – usually followed by something nasty like Alzheimer’s
I’m not at all sure about the formula a person living with, followed by something unwelcome, such as Alzheimer’s disease,…
Australian letters
Russian meddling Sir: Please help me out here: just what, exactly, did the Russians do, and/or try to do to…
Where have all the engineers gone?
When the Chifley Government, in 1948, decided to implement a scheme to harness the waters of the Snowy Mountains and…
Cast members of An Ideal Husband
He was already skating on thin ice when Oscar Wilde opened his newest play at the Haymarket Theatre on 3…
Brown study
One of the more obvious features of left-leaning luvvies is that they are all stupid. They simply cannot think straight,…
A golden century
Lord Carrington, who died last week in his hundredth year, witnessed and shaped much of the international politics of the…
Dancing to terror’s tune
If when you woke on the morning of Sunday 15 July, you made the error of watching the ABC television…
The Treaty of Spring Street
History in the old sense of events and names isn’t much taught in our schools any more, such history as…
Austro-Hungarian diary
One of the great pleasures of spending time in Budapest is admiring the city’s restoration. Despite war, communism and 1956,…
Simon Collins
Like most Australian men I am horrified by reports which attest to the ubiquity of violence against our womenfolk. But…
The bully boys and girls have gone too far
On both sides of the Tasman, too many of our MPs haven’t listened to the brilliant black American academic, Thomas…
Global brand Julia
‘Trailing clouds of glory’ is so apt for Julia Gillard AC’s post-prime ministerial career. This month the apolitical.co blog for…
Paradiski lost
Once again, Western civilisation is under mortal threat. This time it comes from a deepening schism between the rank-and-file and…
King Coal’s reign not over yet
When it comes to power generation, only two things matter. One, ensuring a sufficient and reliable supply of electricity to…
The NSW Liberals destroy themselves along with the nation
Well done, New South Wales Liberals, well done. You weren’t content with sentencing the people of NSW to years under…
Immigration: the issue that won’t go away
With Australia’s population set to hurtle past the 25 million mark in August – decades earlier than predicted – there…
A new front for the left’s war on effort and achievement
Selective public schools across the country have again come under fire for their success as opponents claim they inflict ‘brain…
Thank you, Ms Ford – if you’ve finished
For feminists like Clementine Ford, it seems that absolutely everything is about gender, even when the evidence tells a different…
Annastacia Palaszczuk and the merchants of death
In 2016-7 former Labor MP and independent Rob Pyne proposed radical liberalisation of Queensland’s abortion laws as a private member’s…
Sorry Scott, but the GST fight isn’t over
It is a safe rule of thumb to assume that whenever a minister or a bureaucrat says “no one will…
Show me the honey shot
Those fighting this imaginary battle for women’s rights really need to sit down for a chat to discuss strategy. Their…
The enduring appeal of African gangs
There are some political issues that have a peculiar ability to remain topical over many news cycles, interest slowly waning…
Pro-choice or pro-privileged, middle-class, hysterical women?
Queensland’s white, privileged ALP Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk emerge from her very working class electorate of Inala, to tell one of…
