Australian notes
The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…
No Aussie knighthood for Winston
It was Churchill’s stuff-ups, rather than his successes, that made Australians who we are today
Don’t poke fun at the terrorists
An exclusive interview with Meidyatama Surodiningrat, the ‘blaspheming’ Editor in Chief of the Jakarta Post
The viper lurking in our bosom
Recent tragedies have led to a long-overdue Australian awakening to the threat posed by Islamist ideology
Coolies sold down the river by the bamboo ceiling
Those who seek to unearth overt racism will find it in even our most successful migrant stories
Censorship guide
Here is a wee little guide for all of you people who work for the ABC, or Get-Up!, or the…
Letters
Non pas Charlie Sir: Like many people I too was shocked and horrified at the attack on the staff of…
Culture buff
Possibly in the most beautiful setting of any theatre in the world, Sydney’s Wharf Theatre saw its first performances 30…
Persuasions
Persuasions of shattered glass, fifty rounds bringing carnage, injury, terror, bereavement. What can preserve the State? Citizen A calls an…
Study
I’d tell you I came back here, that I’m writing in this room, if you had not found another and…
Study
I’d tell you I came back here, that I’m writing in this room, if you had not found another and…
The spirit of Prohibition
It is an old adage, but still pertinent. ‘Every generalisation about India is true, and so is the opposite.’ The…
Shopping and viewing
Some time in the 1960s, a group of people in an advertising agency (among them Llewelyn Thomas, son of Dylan)…
Jugglers v. dancers
January is something of a palate-cleanser for the year, as the London International Mime Festival flies in plane-loads of companies…
Saved by Spotify
We have all read about the current woeful state of the CD industry — how it is 28 per cent…
Saved by Spotify
We have all read about the current woeful state of the CD industry — how it is 28 per cent…
Persuasions
Persuasions of shattered glass, fifty rounds bringing carnage, injury, terror, bereavement. What can preserve the State? Citizen A calls an…
The hottest year on which record?
Did you know that 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded in the entire history of the world? Probably you…
Do I care about Liberia? Do you? Does Oxfam?
It’s strange how quickly we all forgot about Ebola. Speak for yourself, you might say — and I will. Until…
Benedict Cumberbatch and what’s really offensive
How should we refer to non-white people, and foreigners in general, given that of course we do sometimes need to…
Australian notes
The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…
Who’s afraid of deflation?
Commentators fear that falling prices could lead to a Japanese-style downwards spiral. Their gloom is misplaced
Portrait of the week
Home More than 1,100 imams and Islamic leaders received a letter from Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, and Lord Ahmad…
