Crank Case
Paul Heywood-Smith QC has written a weak case for Palestine. A much stronger book was there to be written, but…
Culture buff
Elijah Moshinsky is back in town, in Melbourne, where it all began. Responsible for the most insightful and beautiful productions…
Our churches have fallen in love with climate change
Terrified of irrelevance, Christian churches are leaping onto a godless bandwagon
Closing young minds
The ‘Lomborg affair’ shows the intellectual bankruptcy of contemporary Australian academia
Budget diary
Just under two weeks until Budget. The office inbox is flooded with the first anti Budget campaign. Campaign tactics are…
The great divide
Politicians everywhere have an uncanny knack of dividing, not uniting, their people
Labor’s pyrrhic victory
By winning the battle, Labor have managed to lose the war. With such a monumental strategic blunder, Bill Shorten and…
Australian letters
Modern migrant families Sir, In recounting the positions in print of the likes of Miranda Devine from the Right, and…
Inside the Milibunker: the last days of Ed
The inside story of Labour’s chaotic and secretive election campaign
Lacan Appeals to the Patient
Since you remain reluctant, let us imagine that one’s selfhood is a work of art — a maquette in clay,…
The Best View in England
that’s what she said. Of course, I begin to find fault: a shrub partly obscures the view, there’s a glint…
Normandy
I am compiling a list of the best black puddings. It began in Spain when I encountered my first morcilla…
Hypnotism
During the World Championship qualifier of 1959, grandmaster Pal Benko wore dark glasses to counter the hypnotic gaze of his…
No. 362
White to play. This position is from Tal–Benko, Candidates 1959. Black has just advanced with … e5, attacking the white knight.…
Gizza job
In Competition No. 2897 you were asked for a job application by a well-known writer, living or dead. Inspiration for…
Your problems solved
Q. I have a friend who can be shy and inhibited. Recently, he was invited to stay on a Caribbean…
Goulash and whiplash
Ed is a plank. He was always a plank — and now he is in Ibiza being a plank. Plankety–plankety-plank:…
Cameron’s new mission
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thelastdaysofmiliband/media.mp3 As David Cameron lined up beside Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband at the Cenotaph on the day after…
High life
OK. Magnanimity in victory is a sine qua non among civilised men and women, so let me not be the…
Long life
On election day I was in Puglia in the ‘heel’ of Italy, where interest in British politics could hardly be…
Long life
On election day I was in Puglia in the ‘heel’ of Italy, where interest in British politics could hardly be…
Low life
I’ve been on two cruises before: one was fun, the other misery. The misery one was a late August cruise…
Low life
I’ve been on two cruises before: one was fun, the other misery. The misery one was a late August cruise…
