Australian Letters
Well-meaning Whitlam Sir: Over recent months we have been subjected to an unprecedented amount of vainglory from the ALP and…
Farming carbon
And so the great farming nation that rode to prosperity on the sheep’s back and through harvesting wheat now looks…
Birth of the sophisticates
Fifty years ago, The Lucky Country helped create a whole new breed of Australian
CO2 notes
This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…
Oh lucky man?
Fifty years ago, Donald Horne’s enigmatic phrase captured a nation’s imagination. But what did he make of his success, and what did it cost him? Donald’s son Nick and his former colleague Michael Baume dig back into the past
Don’s Party Tricks
How Donald Horne went from a flamboyant fun-loving Tory to a herald of the new age of Whitlam
Women, Booze & Bedspreads
It’s a pity Donald Horne didn’t call The Lucky Country ‘Women, Booze and Bedspreads’ instead. Better still, that could have…
Autumn Shades
They start to say autumnal in the forecasts, And on the Northern Line the shifting panels Look bleached already. I…
To my father, solicitor to the landed gentry
If you were still alive You would be ninety-six tomorrow. I think of you most days. Just now, for example,…
Title Stories: The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The post Title Stories: The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis appeared first on The Spectator. Got…
A vintner’s vocation
A delightful girl came to see me this morning. She is helping with the research for a biography of David…
S&M and B&Q
I never got beyond page 20 in Fifty Shades of Grey. No one got shot in the first chapter, and…
Gospel truth
‘I’m starting to think that all of the world’s major problems can be solved with either oyster sauce or backing…
Gospel truth
‘I’m starting to think that all of the world’s major problems can be solved with either oyster sauce or backing…
Medical diary
Among the delusions I use to warm myself in the bleak midwinter, channeling Dr Who is not one. But as…
To my father, solicitor to the landed gentry
If you were still alive You would be ninety-six tomorrow. I think of you most days. Just now, for example,…
CO2 notes
This year the world will enjoy its greatest grain crop on record. Let me say that again. This year the…
Title Stories: The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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The sermon that taught me what’s happened to Birmingham
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Miliband needs a plan – and soon
Ed Miliband’s internal critics used to complain that he had a 35 per cent strategy. They claimed that his unambitious…
The bookshop and the bump
‘You are like my cat.’ So I was told when eight-and-a-half months pregnant, just before going on maternity leave from…
The bookshop and the bump
‘You are like my cat.’ So I was told when eight-and-a-half months pregnant, just before going on maternity leave from…
Portrait of the week
Home The last British combat troops turned over Camp Bastion in Helmand to Afghan forces and withdrew from Afghanistan after…
