High Life
Greece I am surfing along the Cycladic islands on Puritan, a 125ft classic that was launched in 1929 by…
Low life
‘We are always waiting for somebody,’ observed a vexed British journalist. Usually it was me they were waiting for, but…
Real life
Quite stoically, I was mountaineering on my hands and knees over a sea of rubble to get to the temporary…
Now I get it – Corbyn is the new Murdoch
For our 16th wedding anniversary, Caroline and I went to the Almeida Theatre to see Ink, a new play about…
The Father
A co-production by MTC and STC of a new play which has been acclaimed in Paris, London and New York…
Post-modern notes
For those of us who exist long enough it is all too easy to live on somehow through decades of…
Liberal notes
Rosehill: democracy reborn The Rosehill Convention of the NSW Liberal Party may go down in history as the beginning…
Cheating German car-makers are good news for Brexiteers
It came as no great surprise to learn that the EU competition authorities are crawling all over the three major…
No true Tory can support this gender idiocy
I’ve had it with the Conservatives. For me, and I know I’m not the only one, the final straw was…
Tricky, and slightly sicky
The Big Sick is a rom-com that’s smarter than most rom-coms, which isn’t saying much, admittedly. It stars a Muslim…
2320: Crossings out
The unclued Across lights become thematic when a suffix is appended. The individual unclued Down lights (one a proper noun)…
Is Macron’s vanity presidency already falling apart?
The French president’s embarrassing attempts to reinvent himself as the new Tony Blair are not working
Why must I have a strong opinion about everything?
At a party earlier this summer, I was chatting to a man who asked me how I voted in last…
No, Premier, we will not get out of the way
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has formally accepted the recommendations of the Ministerial Advisory Panel that he set up in December…
Inside the Hillary book
Exciting news for fans of the president who never was, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yep. The inevitable has happened. She’s got…
Importing China’s poison
There is an engineering company in Brisbane with about 30 employees which used to do a lot of work in…
Everyone hates political correctness: official
A swag of media outlets have run a yarn along the lines “Older Australians say political correctness is running society”…
I’m an atheist and against euthanasia
Some prominent Australians who favour a change in the law on assisted dying seem so anxious to implement it that…
No, men are not more of a threat than terrorists
When does a “comment” piece stop being comment and become a short work of fiction? The answer lies in the…
The (new) God Delusion
Richard Dawkins has discovered that it’s trendy to be an atheist – but only if you are an exclusively Christian…
Gillian Triggs: the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
In today’s Australian Chris Kenny has a wholly accurate piece on Gillian Triggs. Kenny sets out the ways in which Triggs…
A brown coal plan that’s worse than Finkel?
The Victorian Government’s new Statement on Future Uses of Brown Coal, released earlier this month, is further proof that there…
Canavan will be missed
LNP Senator Matt Canavan stood down from his position as resources minister this evening while issues over his citizenship are…
Class war breaks outs
Bill Shorten has declared to the Melbourne Institute and later, on Insiders that Australia had a ‘two class’ tax system…
