Low life
‘Jeremy, I want you to sit here next to me — unless you’re frightened of me?’ We were briefly introduced…
Goof
Susie Dent has been trying to make us love Americanisms on Radio 4. Now Miss Dent knows far more about…
Real life
After spending the day unblocking the gutters and drains in the pouring rain, he wasn’t in the mood for a…
Metal fatigue in the golden generation
Not a bad week for Roger Federer then: first pootling along being cool and rich in a morning suit at…
Fraternity, solidarity and the spirit of 1945
My father worked as a fire warden during the Blitz, trying to contain the damage done by the Luftwaffe, and…
The turf
Most racehorse trainers, those at least who didn’t have a legacy from Aunt Agatha to lubricate their way into the…
Diary
The chances of my 20-year-old student son being at an Ariana Grande concert on a Monday night were, my head…
Portrait of the week
Home Twenty-two people were killed and 59 wounded by a man who blew himself up, with a bomb containing metal…
Making waves
Hokusai wanted to paint everything, says Laura Freeman, and at 70 he was only just beginning
Be-Friending the ABC
It comes as no surprise when you discover that ‘Friends of the ABC’ is not, like, say, the CWA or…
Angered by Manchester? That’s racist!
There isn’t much that is more frustrating than the desperate scrambling, post the latest Islamist terrorist attack, for commentators and…
The battle for Manchester
In times of great tragedy, when the minds of the masses unite in stunned grief, warped voices become incredibly clear.…
What’s happening with the RSL?
This week’s victory for newly elected NSW RSL president James Brown disproved the enduring adage that old age and cunning…
Dumb celebrities and other Manchester menaces
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that in the aftermath of a tragedy a celebrity in a wont of brains (but…
Plain packaging … for alcohol?
It sometimes feels like our society has long abandoned its sense of individual responsibility. Flick open the papers or scroll…
Letters
NHS in a mess Sir: Max Pemberton is quite right to say that the NHS is close to collapse, but…
Making waves
The end, whenever it came, was always going to be too soon for Katsushika Hokusai. There was still so much…
It’s time for Labor voters to pay their way
It now looks like that Labor and the Greens will support a tax increase for people earning above $85,000 a…
Bye-bye Yassmin
It may well be a month too late, but slow clap to the ABC for finally doing the right thing.…
You don’t argue with Ms 61 per cent
Malcolm Turnbull must be staring at UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s poll numbers with vaulting envy. The Britain Elects polling…
Manchester, Trump and terror
It’s been a big week underlining the challenges in combatting global Islamic terrorism. The combination of Trump’s speech to Middle…
Killing children makes no sense
Killing children makes no sense. They were not soldiers. They were not partisans. They were kids enjoying music in the…
At least the British have a choice
There has already been much debate about British Labour’s election manifesto commitment to re-nationalise the UK’s energy, rail, water and…
Don’t bring them home
What does jihadist Neil Prakash, now jailed in Turkey, alleged drug mule Cassandra Sainsbury, jailed in Colombia and ex-Waverley college schoolboy, John Zakhariev…
My boyfriend’s back…
Lock up your left-wing activist sisters; Julian Assange is back in town. In a triumph for accused rapists everywhere, the…
