A land of extremes
The Brendan Eich case proves US politics is just too absurd. And you’ll soon be able to buy a Mustang over here
Dear Mary
Plus: The trials of a minor media personality, and what to do if a friend has egg on their face
It don’t come easy
‘Got to pay your dues, if you wanna sing the blues,’ sang Ringo Starr wistfully after the demise of the…
Offending Mother Russia
Criticising Putin’s military incursion in Ukraine does not,contrary to a stifling new consensus, amount to racism
Diary
I knew from reading his book that Bob Carr was colossally vain. But still I’m stunned when, 90 seconds before…
Australian Notes
You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…
A noble cause
I supported Australia’s Vietnam commitment in the decade between 1965 (when the Menzies Coalition government deployed combat forces to South…
Brown Study
I devoted most of last weekend to attending the conference of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia in Canberra.…
A wicked orthodoxy
Global-warming alarmism has become a substitute religion, attended by all the intolerant zealotry that has so often marred religion in the past
Domestic harmony
Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…
Portrait of the artist
Who the hell was Dylan Thomas? Boozer, womaniser, sponger, charlatan — or master craftsman, besotted husband, generosity personified and one…
A military port
Alas, the ’63 ports are beginning to fade. I came to that conclusion the last time I tasted a Warre’s,…
A land of extremes
A few years ago I would have quite liked to live in America. I’m not sure now. For one thing,…
Domestic harmony
Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…
Not guilty
The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…
Not guilty
The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…
Portrait of the artist
Who the hell was Dylan Thomas? Boozer, womaniser, sponger, charlatan — or master craftsman, besotted husband, generosity personified and one…
Power really does corrupt: here’s scientific proof
It’s all the rage these days to worry about the growing gap between rich and poor. Our fretting was fuelled…
Australian Notes
You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…
