Litter is a class issue
I've found a new hero. Though I'd prefer a Big Society method for carrying through his obsession
Dear Mary
It featured a famous cast and I have been sworn to secrecy – how can I get her to tell me again?
18Charlie
Even as we were putting the finishing touches to our editorial last week, in which we ‘joined the dots’ between…
Australian notes
It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…
Business/Robbery etc
The Australian National University’s ‘ethical’ dumping of $16 million in Australian resource stocks last October has progressed from ‘stupid’ (as…
Australia’s film awards – put your money on the pulpy stuff
If I were asked to name my favourite job over the past 15 years, since I took leave of my…
Letters
No Stitch Up Dear Qanta: Our names are Andrew O’Keefe and Monique Wright, and we were the hosts who interviewed…
Culture buff
Wanting to love it was not enough; Mr Turner just didn’t quite do it for me. Mike Leigh’s new film…
Responding to murderous bullies
The media can defeat the Islamists’ terrorising threat tofree speech by themselves
Intern’s diary
Four months in Washington D.C., interning on Capitol Hill sounded pretty good to a kid who was addicted to The…
Charlie, the Prophet and the Pope
When will the Left understand there is no religious equivalency with fanatical Islam?
Title Stories: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Burgundian battles
There is only one answer to the question ‘Burgundy or claret?’ ‘Yes, but never in the same glass.’ Yet I…
Reputations at stake
‘J’ai failli attendre’ — ‘I almost had to wait’ — allegedly said by Louis XIV when his carriage drew up just a…
Wild life
Hell’s Kitchen My ambition to open a fish and chip shop in Mogadishu has not happened yet, though I remain…
Let the wrong one in
There’s been heated disagreement over the past week about what’s right and wrong. Is the rocket-propelled ex-Bolshoi enfant terrible Ivan…
Title Stories: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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