University isn’t sexy anymore
Freshers’ Week. It sounds so appealing, even to an uneducated counter-jumper like me who finds the word ‘uni’ so repellent…
Smart meters aren’t so clever
Smart meters were meant to make our lives easier. They were designed to help us reduce energy consumption and cut…
Morrissey’s martyrdom knows no bounds
Say what you like about Steven Patrick Morrissey – lead singer of The Smiths, the Mancunian miserabilist, ‘the Pope of…
Narrow church
Increasingly, and not surprisingly, political pundits across the mainstream media are beginning to say what this magazine has been saying…
This Bill is a disgrace
Libs must fight now for free speech. Or lose the election.
Business/Robbery, etc
Mining industry rediscovers its backbone
Customer is always right?
Nah, government knows best
The white man’s burden
Critical race theory is racist and deliberately foments division
Housing crash is now inevitable
Look at what happened 30 years ago
The boys from Brazil
Making censorship respectable again
Trump’s questionable tactics
The debate was riddled with missed opportunities
The woke manifesto
Progressive campaign to destroy free speech
Leo’s worldwide hypocrisy tour
DiCaprio sells us his environmental cartoon, but is anybody buying it?
And then there was the voice
It was at Cape Liptrap that the call came through. The setting was almost absurdly beautiful, the sea one way…
Aussie life
Recently the ABC online, and the Weekend Australian, both published detailed articles about problems within the Northern Territory Aboriginal communities.…
Language
Can ‘difficult’ be used as a verb? Surely not, I hear you mutter. But on the web I encountered the…
Corrupt media to rig this election too?
Fall of France recalled
The joy of hiring an old banger
There is always much to look forward to on a holiday with friends in France (the day one supermarket sweep,…
Cheers to corkscrews!
For the first 50 years of the corked bottle, there was no easy way to get into it. The combination…
Are the Tories brave enough to be conservative?
The Conservative party is out of power – and that’s not easy if you’ve been in power for more than…
The meaning of ‘moot’? It’s debatable
In Florence there was a stone on which Dante sat in the evenings, pondering and talking to acquaintances. One asked…
Nigel’s next target: Reform has Labour in its sights
At this weekend’s Reform conference in Birmingham, the opening speech will be given by a man who wasn’t even a…
The adult ADHD trap
I was on the bus recently and bored when I decided not to ignore but to answer one of those…
In defence of McJobs
The burden of higher taxation must fall on those with ‘the broadest shoulders’, says the Prime Minister, and City folks…
Manacorda’s thrills and spills at Prom 72
At a Hollywood party in the 1940s, the garrulous socialite Elsa Maxwell spotted Arnold Schoenberg, then teaching music at UCLA,…
