Stephen Loosley

Art of diplomacy

29 July 2017 9:00 am

The language of diplomacy often requires nuance and subtlety. Not infrequently, it needs to be opaque, to enable differing interpretations;…

Revolving doors

27 May 2017 9:00 am

There is a curious twist in the montage on the cover of Rodney Tiffen’s Disposable Leaders; a detailed treatise on…

Bankstown lefty

4 February 2017 9:00 am

For Paul Keating, there have always been two kinds of politics: ‘high tone’ and ‘low rent’. High tone was to…

Up Close and Personal

3 December 2016 9:00 am

Chris Mitchell’s memoir of his life as a News Ltd journalist, then as editor, first of Brisbane’s Courier Mail and…

Walking the walls of Theodosius

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Hagia Sophia (the Church of the Holy Wisdom) in Istanbul is arguably the most important building in our Judeo-Christian tradition.…

A hero recalled

6 August 2016 9:00 am

In these times it seems that heroes are acclaimed readily and easily. A single television appearance coupled with a politically…

Australian Diary

21 May 2015 9:30 am

At the end of the week of Treasurer Joe Hockey’s second Federal Budget, I recalled the caustic observation about the…

Californian diary

5 February 2015 2:00 pm

The American Republic has always been characterized by great political families. From earliest days, from the Adams and the Harrisons…

The useful Colonel Houses

18 July 2013 1:00 pm

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was determined to get the measure of Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, and of Britain’s chances…