Eugenics for your email
Francis Galton was wrong about how people breed – but right, I suspect, about information
Credible
The favourite compliment of Labour leadership candidates is a grudging sort of praise at best
Australian letters
Mistaken identity Sir: Taki is mistaken in his column of 29 August 2015. Louis XVIII was not a ‘fat Napoleonic…
Photo opportunity
Former Speccie columnist and would-be federal Treasurer Chris Bowen clearly is in need of a decent sub-editor to help him…
First person diary
I hate first-person journalism, always have. In my early – olden – days as a copy boy with News’ Daily…
NSW: racists welcome
The failure of NSW authorities to prosecute an Islamic hate-preacher threatens all ethnic minorities
Will the intelligentsia fall for polygamy?
The push to legalise polygamy will inevitably come next. We would be foolish to embrace it
Labor’s renewables target doesn’t add up
The push for a 50 per cent renewable energy target is a fantasist’s pipe dream
Culture buff
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the appointment of Richard Tognetti as its Artistic Director. That…
Telling it on the mountain
As we stood on the threshold of the dacha outside Vladivostok, the Australian delegation paused. We had been monitoring Boris…
Going for a song
This column does like a bargain. Indeed, it not only esteems and relishes a bargain, it has also worked long…
A goddess, a city and a tree
Known for her strength, Athena can throw a spear like a dart, and on the day of the contest for…
Hermit
Let’s celebrate the solitary meal: the serendipitous trawl through the fridge; the hopeful foray into the deep freeze, the obliging…
The perfect pub
Whenever one of those news stories appears about how many pubs have been forced to close in the last year,…
Hermit
Let’s celebrate the solitary meal: the serendipitous trawl through the fridge; the hopeful foray into the deep freeze, the obliging…
Checkmate me in St Louis
The Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, one of the strongest tournaments of all time, has been convincingly won by the…
Puzzle no. 378
Black to play. This position is a variation from So-Aronian, St Louis 2015. How can Black conclude the attack? Answers…
Bennboozled
In Competition No. 2914 — which was inspired by a speech given by the late Sir Keith Joseph in which…
