Guest Notes
Ancestral notes
Being David Cohen The apparent news that Joe Biden tapped me to help lead one of his new administration’s most…
Euro notes
Ursula Fond o’ Lyin’ Odd policy choices continue to bedevil Boris Johnson’s government. Almost a year after Australia started putting…
Covid notes
Beyond the quarantine fiasco While the mismanagement of the hotel quarantine in Melbourne has been in the news, a more…
US notes
Every idea is an incitement When the outgoing 45th President of the United States vouchsafed to his audience at The…
Euro notes
Brexit Boost for Boris Having won a thumping majority a year ago, Boris Johnson keeps squandering the early, widespread good…
Euro notes
Europe’s woke Iron Curtain Who could have predicted that the gulf between Europe’s west and east would still be there…
Christmas notes
Put some coal in our stockings Santa will be busy this year because 2020 marks the final year of the…
Cultural notes
Warts and All Memorial As its name makes clear, the Australian War Memorial exists to memorialise the service and sacrifice…
Media Notes
Where are all the journalists? Please could someone just clarify a point of law for me: is theft no longer…
Election notes
They want him to 'turn the other cheek' so that they can have a free ride to power regardless of what laws they have broken and what cheating they've stooped to
Euro wuflu notes
Lonely Goatherd immunity While Australia has spent much of 2020 establishing Iron Curtain border regimes, Europe’s bewildering and ever-changing internal…
Euro notes
Half-hearted Tory Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until…
Musical notes
Trumps like us, baby we were born to run Mr Bruce Springsteen has, depending on how one views these things,…
Covid notes
India and the missed opportunity of HCQ The coronavirus pandemic has had rapidly shifting and often contested storylines on infectiousness,…
Covid notes
The Pied Piper of Pandemic Porn ‘Fool me once,’ say Americans, ‘shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’…
Farewell notes
Today on a day of unsurpassable spring glory my wife and I visited the onetime home of her maternal great-grandparents,…
China notes
Ducking Peking ASoviet-era joke had someone visiting the part of the commu- nist bureaucracy which issued permission to move your…
Covid notes
I’m at risk, but I don’t want lockdowns It’s hard to credit in a democracy like Australia, but five and…
Trade notes
Boris picks a real Tory In his two years as prime minister, Tony Abbott achieved more to help Australia’s exporters…
Woke notes
Chinese aggression and the New Cold War The elderly woman in the ground floor flat was the janitor of the…
Lockdown notes
A good war Who could ever have imagined that the greatest act of rebellion in the second decade of the…
Euro notes
How dangerous for Boris is Nigel? The first anniversary of Boris Johnson’s prime ministership didn’t bring him good news. Firstly,…
Dis-con notes
Reshuffle revisited On 5 July we learned that the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, will leave parliament towards the…
Cultural notes
My answer to China? The Anglosphere. ‘Enough buying from China! Why do we need their stuff? It’s s—t quality anyway.…
Political notes
We must resist the American Left’s dangerous race-based lies I have been following the rise of identity politics for 30…
