Words of wisdom
Dominic Frisby is an actor best known for voicing the booking.com adverts (‘Booking dot com, booking dot yeah’). Voiceover specialists…
What’s love got to do with it?
Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades is probably his greatest opera, certainly the one in which his characteristic strengths are on…
What’s love got to do with it?
Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades is probably his greatest opera, certainly the one in which his characteristic strengths are on…
Super human
‘We think we’re in charge of this stuff but we’re not,’ said Quincy Jones, the composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter, musical…
Super human
‘We think we’re in charge of this stuff but we’re not,’ said Quincy Jones, the composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter, musical…
Consider this…
Blasphemy is back The ACT government abolished the crime of blasphemy in 1996. Earlier this month, they brought it back.…
Consider this…
Blasphemy is back The ACT government abolished the crime of blasphemy in 1996. Earlier this month, they brought it back.…
Bridge
Bridge players love going on about system. Some want every bid to have a conventional meaning and some want to…
Tick tock
Since the Prime Minister’s petulant and angry election night spray, he and his government have looked anything but in control.…
Tick tock
Since the Prime Minister’s petulant and angry election night spray, he and his government have looked anything but in control.…
Why lining shareholders’ pockets is more productive than plugging black holes
The revelation by actuarial consultants Lane Clark & Peacock that 56 of the supposedly blue chip companies in the FTSE 100…
The best thing about Brexit? It’s not my fault
Brexit Britain fills me with calm. Six weeks on, there’s no point pretending otherwise. Losing is far better than winning.…
Something must be done for Wales
On Monday 25 July we climbed Cader Idris. No particular reason except a free Monday and a memory of what…
It’s not the Trots you need to worry about
How strange it is that an obscure Tsarist prison warder in Odessa is commemorated forever in thousands of tiny, irritable…
The Spectator
When you vote in Britain, there is a relaxed feeling in the polling stations. This is a long-established part of…
Rio, Rio
Stuff I have learnt after two solid weeks watching the Olympics on TV. 1. Tennis and golf shouldn’t be Olympic…
It’s fatuous to outlaw an emotion – especially hate
A man in Austria has been sentenced to three months in prison for posting a picture of his cat on…
The biggest rort of them all
A stopped clock is … well, you know the rest. And so it was with Buzzfeed yesterday when the Australian…
#blackfathersmatter
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is recovering from brutal rioting. The unrest grew out of protests over the death of Sylville K. Smith,…
Finally, Shorten stumbles
When Malcolm Turnbull finished the election with all the grace of Shaunae Miller’s win in the women’s 400 metre final in…
If business shuts the door to debate the fringe will flourish
Among the many losers of the 2016 election, big business is near the top of the list, which might teach…
The anarchist bookstore and the Lodge: a parable
Walking past the Newtown Anarchist’s Club/Bookstore, I noticed their shopfront window was smashed. “Fitting”, I thought, before walking on. But…
The Party of Freedom and the Gosford Anglicans: pity both sides can’t lose
Yesterday, a group of yobbos known as the Party for Freedom staged a noisy anti-Islamic protest during the Sunday mass…
Captain Catholic’s confession
Catholicism can be ridiculously simple. Confess your sins in a spirit of true repentance and — te absolvo — you…
Balfour notes
For the Jewish people the tiny sliver of land between the Jordan River and the eastern Mediterranean coast has always…
