No. 376
Black to play. This position is a variation from variation from Maslak-Smerdon, Pardubice 2007. Black has powered through on the…
Fan fare
In Competition No. 2912 you were invited to submit a tribute in verse to a once-popular foodstuff that has fallen…
2226: Whitehouse
Clockwise from 4 run three titles (6,2,3,6,7,9,3,4,3,4,5) linked with X who won a 21 of 8s. 29 is a fourth…
To 2223: Clerihew
Edmund Clerihew Bentley wrote: The art of Biography/ Is different from Geography/ Geography is about maps/ But Biography is about…
French cowardice knows no bounds
Plus ça change: they leave it to Americans and Brits to protect them from murderous fascists
Two industries in need of regulation
But there are couple of industries left which really do need to be regulated
Raving right-wingery?
Run through the Abbott government’s charge sheet and there’s not much evidence of the ‘rabid’ right
Diary
We’re off to see Tony Abbott launch When We Were Young and Foolish, Greg Sheridan’s new book. How a pair…
Phallus in Blunderland
It was about 2 years ago that I started hanging out with Teddy. And what a roller- coaster of a…
Aux bien pensants
It’s not so long ago that the commetariat was talking about the end of Qantas, at least as an international…
Culture buff
The oldest professional orchestra in Australia with the longest continuous history, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will next year celebrate its…
Conflict resolution
Do the ALP really want to promote an Islamist, racist, ethnically-pure Palestine?
The Conquest of Russia
An Aussie’s role in a unique ‘Marshall Plan of Ideas’ designed to try to save Russia from itself
Protecting Leftist dogma
It’s hard to see what Dyson Heydon, Mark Latham and anal sex have in common, yet these are the three…
Gnats
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) Their world is a glass of rainwater. They move up and down through the clearness,…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
The lessons of exam results season
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
