London for aliens
Street food for people who hate streets, world cuisine for people from somewhere else
The new Garnaut Report
Yes, economics really is a dismal science, if this book is to be believed. Even when things are going right,…
An Aussie wolf on Wall Street
The new movie resonates with Eighties London adland, albeit in a less cartoonish fashion
The trouble with Aunty
The image of the benign, slightly fuddy-duddy old eccentric has been wrong for some time. But in recent weeks, the…
Diary
Here in Patterson Lakes — Melbourne’s Mecca for cashed-up tradies and tattooed ladies — Tony Abbott has an image problem.…
On the contrary
Last October, the ABC aired two consecutive episodes of its flagship science programme, Catalyst, which claimed the causal link between…
Australian Noties
When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…
Brown Study
Writing about the need to reform the ABC is profoundly depressing. You can draw attention to its failure to provide…
Power to the people
In recent years contemporary art and regeneration have gone hand in hand. Works such as Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the…
Zeteticism
Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…
Zeteticism
Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…
London for aliens
Lanes of London serves street food to people who hate streets; that is, it exists to soothe the still-curious mouths…
Death of a team
Englishmen used to be deported to Australia as a punishment. Now they get sent back to England as an act…
Women’s ways
Liverpool manager Bill Shankly was once challenged with the story that for their wedding anniversary treat he had taken his…
Power to the people
In recent years contemporary art and regeneration have gone hand in hand. Works such as Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the…
The real thing
Every musical career has its own narrative, and most of them include at least one comeback. To come back, you…
The real thing
Every musical career has its own narrative, and most of them include at least one comeback. To come back, you…
If Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t happy, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Celebrity deaths have no decorum. From Elvis on his toilet to Whitney face down in her bathtub, their last moments…
Warning: ‘no’ won’t be Scotland’s final answer
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_6_February_2014_v4.mp3 From a kind of torpor about this year’s Scottish referendum, Lord Lang of Monkton has roused me. You…
Australian Noties
When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly…
