Australian letters
Bad behaviour Sir: A good number of years ago I was at the University of NSW with a pleasant fellow…
Tough talk
‘Crack down on welfare rorters. Get tough on radical Islam.’ If there’s a whiteboard in the Prime Minister’s office (or…
Australian notes
It was one of the Prime Minister’s best speeches. He was clear, eloquent and convincing. Clear about the terrorist threats…
Right wing hunting pack
Was it really all that wise for the conservative commentariat to hound Tony Abbott?
Diarist’s Diary
‘At a certain point, you go, there’s a human-being here and you would think this must be incredibly bruising.’ Greg…
The liberation of butter
With good old fashioned butter being rehabilitated in the eyes of the ‘experts’, what’s next?
Culture Buff
Adelaide is the perfect festival city and its once biennial, now annual, Festival has been the pace setter for others…
Glad to be Grey
Great works of art may have a strange afterlife. Deracinated from the world that created them they are at the…
Glad to be Grey
Great works of art may have a strange afterlife. Deracinated from the world that created them they are at the…
The not-very-general election
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/the-snp-threat-to-westminster/media.mp3 There’s normally an easy way to tell which party is losing a general election campaign. Whenever one side…
Daffodils
These sprightly flowers are no cowards. They poke forth sun seeking heads, proudly proclaim when earth remains clenched in winter’s…
Small things in the cathedral
A place to see the little things between the monuments and tombs. As in the chapel of St Gabriel, a…
The Turquoise Coast
Legend has it that Mark Antony considered Turkey’s Turquoise Coast so beautiful that, in about 32 bc, he gave it…
Small things in the cathedral
A place to see the little things between the monuments and tombs. As in the chapel of St Gabriel, a…
A divided inheritance
When we consider poets who perished before their day, thoughts turn to the Romantics or the war victims: Burns, Keats,…
Going the wrong way one step at a time
If I were to give you a budget to choose your perfect house, you would quickly have a clear idea…
Eurocrash and Eurotrash
Funny how things turn upside-down with time. A work of contemporary dance that made an iconoclastic splash decades ago is…
Diarist’s Diary
‘At a certain point, you go, there’s a human-being here and you would think this must be incredibly bruising.’ Greg…
Daffodils
These sprightly flowers are no cowards. They poke forth sun seeking heads, proudly proclaim when earth remains clenched in winter’s…
