Counterclaim
The first line of a 4 (two words) consists of 7A and the puzzle’s 3 41; the second line is…
to 2342: Decorative
The key terms are ART NOUVEAU (12) and JUGENDSTIL (19). One indicates 24 and 28D, and the other can be…
In today’s brave new world, fat is a high-tech issue
I have a confession to make: I’m a yo-yo dieter. For the past ten years, I’ve lost a bit of…
This Six Nations could be anyone’s – and it couldn’t be more exciting
‘It’s never easy going to Rome,’ observed Anthony Watson after the traditional mauling of a hard-working but outgunned Italian side…
Dear Mary: What do you do when your secretary accuses you of not making a pass?
Q. I am at the age where parts of the body start to go wrong, and I have a minor…
A new addition to north London’s underwhelming restaurants: Café Hampstead reviewed
Café Hampstead is a new café in — big reveal! — Hampstead, the gaudiest of the old villages on the…
Jejune
A range of book reviewers’ clichés was held up to mockery 60 years ago, in a letter by Jocelyn Brooke…
Burdens of proof and blatant bias
The non-lawyer readers of this fine publication may not be aware of a key premise (really it is a trade-off…
To stay or go?
Senator Lucy Gichuhi’s decision to sit with the Liberal Party is a small but important step militating against the fragmentation…
Abusing the Holocaust
This year’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, was at once illuminated…
Brown Study
My colleagues and I in the noble profession of investigative journalism have now spent 12 months poring over the goldmine…
Railways and the Raj
Many of our acquaintances now rarely watch 7.30, partly out of irritation with the succession of whingers and trade union…
Australian notes
Turnbull’s 18C on steroids Rahm Emmanuel, one-time Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration, once said: ‘You never let a…
Eyeballing DFAT
In republican Canberra, admiration for British tradition is thin. But in one respect it’s alive and well. Our career mandarins…
Down the rabbit hole into Trump’s America
A curious discovery at this year’s Australian Open tennis showed how America’s President Trump trauma is filtering into the most…
Business/Robbery etc
Small businesses and individuals income-earners beware! Now that Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan’s successful five-year multi-billion dollar campaign against tax dodging…
We must not go down the Corbyn path
Perhaps because of its outrageous early ‘70s sexism, one of Britain’s most important ural films, The Rise and Rise of…
Mr President, look beyond the swamp
Not since Ronald Reagan has the reaction to a State of the Union address been so optimistic, anticipating the return…
The Green-left’s war against Jim Molan
The Greens are a party without principle or common sense. They’ve proved their lack of seriousness by their attack this…
Barnaby Joyce and the return of the scarlet letter
With all the grubby reporting of a private matter between two consenting adults, the media pack, led by the Daily…
Ten non-religious reasons against euthanasia
I have, in awe, seen a husband caring for his young wife—and their four children—in the last months of her…
Tanks on the streets
Trump sure as hell knows how to stir up the left: President Trump has asked the Pentagon to explore holding “a celebration”…
The rule of law also applies to law processes
George Brandis’s parting shot in his valedictory speech to the parliament over his concern that ‘attacks upon the institutions of…
Is honour killing a “peopleslaughter”?
Oh Canada! Your Celebrity-in-Chief, Prime Minister Justin Castro, er, Trudeau, continues to deliver. Mostly laughs, though often you don’t know…
