Political notes
Refusing to accept the vote One sign of the collapse of political order in a country is the refusal of…
Liberal notes
The future in doubt No election result is a certainty in advance but all the evidence suggests that the federal…
Australian notes
On Republicanism The spectacle of so many grisly celebrities clustered together at the royal wedding reminded me why I was…
Australian notes
Sorry seems to be the easiest word I am sorry to have to say this, but I think we all…
Border wars
At the end of last year the European Union delivered an ultimatum to the Polish government. It gave the administration…
Whatever happened to socialism?
There has been some alarm expressed in Britain by worried editorial writers in journals like the Economist that Jeremy Corbyn…
Insane expectations
Politics has always been a notoriously unstable activity but over recent years this has been accentuated by several long-accepted rules…
Speak up!
Free speech is struggling in the battle against ‘conventional wisdom’ and ‘political correctness’
Notes from abroad
Flying across the Pacific, I am reading two new works from the recent explosion of books on the outbreak of…
