The wheat and the chaff of online comments
What’s to be done about the online comments sections in daily newspapers? These (for those estimable Spectator readers who have…
Terra nullius
For many people these days, exploration means peeking into some of the more unusual corners of the internet. This massive…
Across the aisle
These days, book launches, like election campaign launches, come well after a new book is actually released to the public.…
Across the aisle
These days, book launches, like election campaign launches, come well after a new book is actually released to the public.…
Knights on wheels
A knight and his lady awaken, naked in the forest. She pins up her embroidered gown while he begins his…
War Stories
The mental battle over Sunday roast: mum, my brother and myself trying our best to look interested, so he wouldn’t…
War Stories
The mental battle over Sunday roast: mum, my brother and myself trying our best to look interested, so he wouldn’t…
Knights on wheels
A knight and his lady awaken, naked in the forest. She pins up her embroidered gown while he begins his…
Niall Ferguson shouldn’t have apologised for his comments about Keynes
Is it homophobic to argue that it’s mainly gay men who keep the flame of popular culture alive? If so,…
The lady means business
Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World By Adele Ferguson PanMacmillan, $34.99, pp 490 ISBN…
Across the aisle
It was the best of time and the worst of times for Twitter. Anzac Day, our most sacred day, was…
Across the aisle
It was the best of time and the worst of times for Twitter. Anzac Day, our most sacred day, was…
Double vision
There were two Joan Eardleys, according to a new biography of the Scottish painter by Christopher Andreae. There was ‘the…
There will be spuds
Exmouth Market is a small collection of paved streets near the Farringdon Travelodge, which specialises in monomaniacal restaurants and has…
Double vision
There were two Joan Eardleys, according to a new biography of the Scottish painter by Christopher Andreae. There was ‘the…
What do the innocent have to fear? Ask Google
Forgive me, but let’s go straight in. Readers of a sensitive disposition look away, but there’s a serious reason for…
Across the aisle
As someone who was Minister for Immigration for nearly three years and who had to provide almost daily commentary on…
Across the aisle
As someone who was Minister for Immigration for nearly three years and who had to provide almost daily commentary on…
Progress and its critics
The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class By Nick Cater HarperCollins, $29.99, pp 309 ISBN 9781743098134…
Trading places
The Philippines: An Archipelago of Exchange at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (until 24 July) brings together an impressive…
Not so serenissima
Master your disappointment. The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice (Hale, £9.99) is as far from the fantasy-relocation genre…
The Drowners
They have done this before, the two lovers, each believing the other is drowning – parting their lips as the…
The Drowners
They have done this before, the two lovers, each believing the other is drowning – parting their lips as the…
Trading places
The Philippines: An Archipelago of Exchange at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (until 24 July) brings together an impressive…
Not so serenissima
Master your disappointment. The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice (Hale, £9.99) is as far from the fantasy-relocation genre…
