Overshadowing all the rest
We don’t know what Caravaggio himself would have made of Beyond Caravaggio, the new exhibition at the National Gallery which…
Dear Mary
Q. My father has been on the warpath to eradicate Tineola bisselliella, the common clothes moth. He told me to…
Going nowhere fast – and loud
As a general rule, I would not wish to spend nearly three hours in a mini-van with young people who…
Cover 15 October 2016 AU
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Revenge of the robots
The other day James Lovelock, the sprightly 97-year-old inventor of Gaia theory, told a mildly surprised Guardian interviewer that he…
Gay abandonment
The decision by the Labor party, in cahoots with the hypocritical Greens to vote against the Same Sex Marriage plebiscite…
Box of tricks
Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…
UK Diary
Not all words are equal. People who speak or write for a living are more aware than most that some…
It’s (still) a man’s world
When Jane Garvey announced to the audience who had just ‘taken part’ in the 70th birthday celebrations of Radio 4’s…
In the Navy, in the Army…
Those amused or alarmed by the pictures of former Army Chief and Australian of the Year David Morrison mincing about…
Sinful treat
Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…
Black women’s lives matter
Earlier this year, Mark Latham stirred up outrage with these comments on domestic violence: … it’s about how the men…
High life
New York This is a good time to be in Manhattan, the weather’s perfect, the park and foliage still…
In defence of human rights
An emaciated figure in Auschwitz’s prison rags stands across a desk from a tall, thin, blond German named Doktor Pannwitz.…
Low life
Six months ago Sally was living in a third floor flat in Glasgow. Then she was thrown into the back…
Adam Frandsen plays The Architect
First performed 21 years ago, it’s title was The Eighth Wonder. This year it is being revived under a cumbersome…
The waning of Wayne
As the final chords of the Wagnerian epic that is ‘The Dropping of Wayne Rooney’ fade away, we can leave…
October Revolution: time for democracy in the NSW Liberals
Self-confident democratisation within established political parties turns the tide against weak membership and enhances electoral prospects. These are the lessons…
Tony hearts big government?
A mixture of horror, dismay and disappointment amongst my right-wing Facebook friends greeted Tony Abbott’s UK Diary column in this…
Blue Poles: sell this monument to madness
Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test,…
It’s time for me to face the truth – I am no longer a feminist
This is a big deal for someone who was heavily involved with the Women’s Collective at university and helped to…
Union bully busting: FU to the UFU
Voters in the ACT have a stark choice this weekend: Jeremy Hanson and the Canberra Liberals, or four more years…
New York: Dives of the artists
Fernand Léger’s old studio now has squatters living on the doorstep. They’re an unusual sight in the new New York,…
Beautiful city, beautiful game…
The secret to keeping any relationship going is, of course, to see as little of each other as possible. We…
Gstaad: Swiss charm
‘Come up, slow down’ is the official slogan for Gstaad, but they seem to have forgotten one last important phrase…
