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The Spectator correctly predicted that Australia would regain the Ashes
Australia have regained the Ashes, much to the dismay of the British side. But did the Spectator predict this might happen…
Desperate times
Kevin Rudd is playing politics with security and foreign policy
Don’t listen to this foreigner
The British anti-Murdoch Labour MP has no right to interfere in Australia’s election on Labor’s behalf
Notes from America
Back in Los Angeles after four months in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where I directed a three hour Bonnie & Clyde…
A dry spell
Melbourne’s Crucible is unbewitching
Kevin Rudd is just like Tony Blair
And that is no compliment
September 7 is our Spring Clean-up day
Let’s jettison all the rubbish that plagues Canberra
Please get rid of this dreadful technology
Far from making the game fairer and more interesting, the Decision Review System is poisoning cricket
My Aussie heroes
In memory of Ian Davis and the Test losers of 1977
A political melodrama
We really do need to talk about Kevin
In praise of people smugglers
Stop attacking a legitimate and morally justified trade
Gorilla tactics
King Kong is an unmissable circus
Silencing climate change dissenters
Two Australian universities have ostracised eminent scientists for straying from the ‘consensus’
Notes from reality TV
They say politics is reality TV for ugly people. So draw what you will from my being invited to participate…
Rudd’s foreign policy mess
Militant Islamists could set up shop in our backyard
I leave a sunburnt country
After six years, the BBC’s Australia correspondent bids farewell to ‘the Antipodes’
We are all ‘racists’ now
At last, a hardline policy to stop the boats is the bipartisan consensus
Falling wickets
Cricket’s slow trudge back to the pavilion
Strange bedfellow
Gather round for my explosive Kevin Rudd revelations
A tribute to Ken Minogue
Remembering an antipodean founder of Thatcherism
Why Brits are gloating like hell over the Aussies
British sport is experiencing a remarkable renaissance
Ruddnomics redux
A Europeanised economy won’t work
Notes from the feminist frontline
Moments after Julia Gillard’s downfall was announced I took a call from Jason Morrison, live on Radio 2UE. Virtually levitating with…
Blame culture
John McTernan has someone new to heap scorn upon: all of us
Falling towards England
The Old Foe look to be in worryingly good form for the Ashes
