The Silence of the Barnes
Many on the right believe the rest of us on the right should refrain from criticising the Abbott government. They’re wrong.
Australian diary
The Israeli’s and I didn’t get off to the best start. Maybe they just didn’t like the cut of my…
Australian notes
The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…
Of myths and messiahs
There is much about the legacy of Whitlam that is reminiscent of Kennedy and Obama
Business/Robbery etc
Millions of Australian investors can now sleep safely in their beds knowing that in November 2014 Jacqui Lambie and Ricky…
Surrogacy Notes
Even the most ardent supporters of surrogacy admit that the present situation in Australia is a mess. Commercial surrogacy is…
Culture Buff
John Hearder was a society photographer whose studio and display window were on Castlereagh Street between Rowe Street and the…
Advising Abbott
All of a sudden the world and his pet poodle purport to have crucial advice for Tony Abbott, as the…
Shock jock
A senior Minister in the NSW government of John Fahey once told me that there was a vacant metaphorical chair…
Australian Letters
Creative writing Sir: When Geoffrey Robertson gets it wrong he is calamitous. He ends his Diary note defending ‘a young…
Children’s books for Christmas
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to launch a campaign please. Right here. You may be wanting me…
Language
And when I landed in America, aged ten, I knew the language was the same. And yet At once the…
First Day of Spring in Bath
Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering: Faux fanes in gardens, Nash and Wesley’s shades, Gold, gaily weighty houses, rocketing sky,…
Title Stories: Utopia by Thomas More
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Cornish and pasty
Mousehole is a charming name; it is almost a charming place. It is a fishing village on Mount’s Bay, Cornwall,…
Tackling Jim Murphy
The author of a rather brilliant little book about football could just hold the key to Labour’s otherwise negligible prospects…
The resurrection man
‘I’m going for Al Ferof,’ said a suit in front of me in the Totepool queue at Ascot on Saturday…
Second coming
Earlier this month the Wigmore Hall was sold out for a Schubert recital by a concert pianist whose only solo…
Second coming
Earlier this month the Wigmore Hall was sold out for a Schubert recital by a concert pianist whose only solo…
Australian diary
The Israeli’s and I didn’t get off to the best start. Maybe they just didn’t like the cut of my…
Children’s books for Christmas
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to launch a campaign please. Right here. You may be wanting me…
Language
And when I landed in America, aged ten, I knew the language was the same. And yet At once the…
First Day of Spring in Bath
Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering: Faux fanes in gardens, Nash and Wesley’s shades, Gold, gaily weighty houses, rocketing sky,…
