Why shouldn’t 16-year-olds get the vote?
On 18 September 2014, Scotland went to the polls to decide its future in the United Kingdom. While the outcome…
‘Hey Dad, it’s John Stone on the phone’ – Vale John Owen Stone 1929-2025
It is with great sadness and affection that we report on the death of John Stone, a long-time contributor to…
Feast in our time
The appeasement of totalitarian regimes is never a brilliant idea, as history has reminded us on many occasions, including, of…
Brown study
I am thrilled about the government’s plan for an economic roundtable to be held in Canberra from 19 to 21…
A touch of the unthinkable
The other night we watched one of the greatest American films ever made. Network was directed by Sidney Lumet to…
Aussie life
To much leftist adulation, the eagerly awaited findings of Victoria’s Yoorrook Commission into ‘historic and ongoing systemic injustices’ against Aborigines…
Language
Social psychologist Irving Janis coined the term ‘groupthink’ in 1971. So, let’s see if I can break that down, and…
Why wealth taxes don’t work
The nation owes the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock an eternal debt for losing the 1992 general election when he…
Picture perfect: Locatelli at the National Gallery reviewed
I feel for Locatelli, the new Italian restaurant inside the National Gallery, whose opening coincides with the 200th anniversary of…
Could Japan soon be governed by chatbots?
Tokyo Could Japan be the world’s first -algocracy – government by algorithm? The concept has been flirted with elsewhere: in…
I’ve rekindled my love affair with England
Late spring. Sitting in the armchair in the living room, I was chilly and disconsolate. My middle daughter was seven-and-a-half…
Let straight white men write novels!
About 15 years ago, I tried to interest my literary agent in a state-of-the-nation novel set in 21st-century London. My…
Dear Mary: How can I get through a long, exhausting wedding?
Q. When I have an arrangement to meet a certain friend for lunch she sometimes turns up with a streaming…
The sorry demise of Windies cricket
The tub-thumping atmosphere in the Long Room at Lord’s was so raucous late on Monday afternoon as India and England…
The radical vegan ‘Zizians’ are the cult we deserve
Every week brings a new revelation about the Zizians: the craziest, saddest cult in recent American history. Eight deaths have…
