Vehicle metaphors
Various vehicular metaphors are commonly used to describe the unravelling of an incompetent government, usually involving train wrecks, car crashes,…
Slipping on a banana Teal
Two Bs or not two Bs for the seat of Higgins?
Making appointments, Coalition-style
A satirical look at the previous government’s conservative leanings
Four troubling features of the Higgins judgment
Everyone behaving badly, but only one is pronounced guilty in a social justice outcome
Trump versus Biden
Economic policies compared
The Spirit Whale has spoken
Activists are weaponising indigenous myth-making
Business/Robbery, etc
Lawfare conspirators ordered to come clean
How to be an ‘Approved Jew’
Antipathy to Israel is just the starting point
Tertiary degrees in Intifada
Our universities have abandoned Western civilisation
Bullying the Fed
Will the US central bank skew the US election?
Music as pasta
It’s sad to see that Sir Andrew Davis, the former head of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, has died. The man…
Aussie life
From a nation that gave us riot police, rude waiters, baguettes and non-negotiable submarine contracts we have a new word,…
Language
The expression ‘non-racist’ is still missing from most of the world’s major dictionaries (Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Macquarie) but perhaps this…
Elon Musk, free speech hero
Policy determined on the steps of the Lakemba mosque
Who decides which politicians are liars?
This week the Welsh parliament has been debating a law that would ban politicians from lying. Assuming it ends up…
Dear Mary: how can I help pay for an expensive lunch without seeming rude?
Q. My husband and I (both in our eighties) recently visited a carpet shop with a view to replacing the…
The strikers giving Southgate a headache
Poor Gareth Southgate. Having three outstanding finishers is giving him a thumping headache ahead of the European Championship. Harry Kane,…
Can MPs really defect?
‘He did it years before William Donaldson did The Henry Root Letters,’ said my husband querulously, as though I had…
The real reason I don’t drink
It’s been 30 years this month since I last touched alcohol and I still can’t face the prospect of a…
Letters: the joy of a male book club
The state of our defence Sir: Your article on the etiolated state of European, including Britain’s, defence, is spot on (‘The…
