Get serious about debt
‘This is something we have to take seriously.’ So said Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson in his post-budget address to business…
Letters
An independent policy Sir: James Curran’s review of my book Dangerous Allies (‘Radical nationalist’, 17 May) showed a significant and…
Brown study
It is a minority opinion, but to me there seems to be a remarkable lack of passion and enthusiasm in…
The silly culture war on Gen Y
The ‘entitlement generation’ is being blamed for the sins of society, from txt spk to coward punches
Diary
Budget day. It has its time-honoured rituals which outlive governments of all persuasions. There’s the pre-budget leaks both intentional and…
Australian Notes
I first met David Armstrong early in 1947 when, recently discharged from the Navy, he arrived at Sydney University and…
A PR guide to selling a budget
The problem with the government’s fiscal agenda isn’t that it’s too mean; it’s that it remains too confusing
Keeping promises can’t guarantee good government
It’s absurd to compare Julia Gillard’s carbon tax backflipto Tony Abbott’s post-election budget proposals
Pony tales
‘The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.’ But a Thelwell pony sometimes…
The road to bestsellerdom
I met George Macdonald Fraser when he was the features editor of the Glasgow Herald. He was a very good…
Landings
On our anniversary, you drag the sofa-bed into the old conservatory. The January moon swells to cliché and under a…
Landings
On our anniversary, you drag the sofa-bed into the old conservatory. The January moon swells to cliché and under a…
Port and daughters
Port, or Hermitage? This does not refer to personal consumption. I was trying to remember Meredith’s Egoist, in which one…
When brave is better than good
Oskar Morgenstern grew up in Vienna, John von Neumann in Budapest. Clearly the same Austro-Hungarian intellectual spirit which gave rise…
Wild life
In bed Safety measures — I’ve never been good at them, so inevitably I inhaled and got soaked by the…
Pony tales
‘The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.’ But a Thelwell pony sometimes…
Balanchinian ideal
George Balanchine’s Serenade, the manifesto of 20th-century neoclassical choreography, requires a deep understanding of both its complex stylistic nuances and…
Running out of time
If I live as long as my father, I’ll be checking out on 9 December 2017. Since every man in…
Running out of time
If I live as long as my father, I’ll be checking out on 9 December 2017. Since every man in…
The road to bestsellerdom
I met George Macdonald Fraser when he was the features editor of the Glasgow Herald. He was a very good…
