Toast to a future wedding
We have the wines chosen. Now we must just wait for the couple to meet and fall in love
Politics is not a blood sport
Mocking, abusing or vilifying Labor leaders is morally repugnant. Mocking, abusing or vilifying Liberal leaders is cool. Such is the…
Letters
Oh, the horror! Sir: I think the enthusiasm of Dean Bertram for genre horror and sci-fi films (‘Terror Australis,’ 15…
Brown study
I see that Kevin Rudd has been appointed to a teaching job in international politics at Harvard University, specialising in…
Indonesia should grow up
The country’s ability to conduct itself as a mature regional power is increasingly in doubt
Notes of a diplomat
New York. One of the best overseas postings in Australia’s Foreign Affairs portfolio. So yet another politician is to enliven…
Trollhunters are a menace to the internet
Don’t blame Twitter for the tragic death of Charlotte Dawson
Australian notes
The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
Diary
My wife and the mother of our six children, Lucia, is from an Italian family and two of our disagreements…
Australian Notebook
To Sydney for the first of three G20 meetings in Australia this year. It’s a long way to travel, but…
Double vision
Artists make good critics, but do critics make good artists? It’s hard to tell, when most are too chicken to…
Toast to a future wedding
Three of us, old friends, were meeting to arrange a marriage. The young couple have never actually met. Indeed, they…
How to give yourself a better chance
During the O.J. Simpson trial, the prosecution made much of the fact that Simpson had a record of violence towards…
Double vision
Artists make good critics, but do critics make good artists? It’s hard to tell, when most are too chicken to…
Bring on the young
One of the unlooked-for side effects of the financial crisis has been what might be called the desocialising of music…
Bring on the young
One of the unlooked-for side effects of the financial crisis has been what might be called the desocialising of music…
What’s bad about giving people what they want?
Since I landed my new job as executive editor at Breitbart London, my old Fleet Street friends and colleagues have…
Would you let parents destroy ‘gay’ embryos?
Because I’d like to have a child, and I’m getting on a bit, my husband and I have spent time…
Australian notes
The Labor party and many journalists are scandalised (‘aghast’, ‘outraged’) by the Abbott government’s decision to accede to a request…
Portrait of the week
Home It would be ‘extremely difficult, if not impossible’ for an independent Scotland to join the European Union, José Manuel…
