The only Eurosceptic in the room
At Sciences Po in Paris, I was listened to with polite amusement, but almost no one took the threat of Brexit seriously
A blueprint for English cricket
Fewer Tests, conferences for the counties, and inter-city T20s full of razzle-dazzle
Your problems solved
Plus: coming up against wedding guests’ chronic flakiness; the man who stayed too long
Brown study
No-one should have been surprised when Greens Senator Richard Di Natale was sprung last week for paying his three employees…
Business/Robbery etc
Those who criticise Morrison’s super reforms are ill-informed (including this magazine)
Eoin Andersen
Zurich’s loss was Melbourne’s gain in 2015 when Eoin Andersen became Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Having begun violin…
Australian notes
I dropped in the other day to the Sydney Writers’ Festival to hear Stan Grant deliver his autobiographical and sometimes…
Unenchanted
For the first time in living memory, many conservative Australians are unenchanted by the choices facing them at the ballot…
Consider this…
Colin Dillon – Straight shooter In times of shrill complaint, it is worth contemplating the life and career of…
Attack of the transgender Marxists
The Safe Schools agenda is designed to bring down the traditional pillars of Australian society
Australian letters
Not gay Sir: Ian Thompson in his review of Freedman’s book “ The Murderous History of Biblical Translations …” (Spectator…
Australian diary
April 2012. News Limited newshound Steve Lewis and I are hustling to a meeting at the ABC’s headquarters in Ultimo.…
The Romantic poets
People can be mightily protective of their Romantic poets. When I worked at the Keats Shelley House, overlooking the Spanish…
Garry’s comeback
To great surprise, the former world champion Garry Kasparov staged a brief comeback when he participated in a blitz tournament…
No. 410
Black to play. This position is from So-Nakamura, Ultimate Blitz Challenge, Saint Louis 2016. How did Black make a key…
Drinking partner
In Competition No. 2949 you were invited to submit a poem about sharing a drink with a famous writer. I…
Your problems solved
Q. What is the etiquette regarding asking to drink the wine you have brought to a dinner party? The man…
Cool and underground
The Keeper’s House sits in the basement of Burlington House, a restaurant in disguise. It is quite different from the…
