Guest notes
Covid notes
Covid kilos Throughout this pandemic, our leaders have bombarded us with slogans about the importance of social distancing, vaccinations, staying…
Euro notes
Travels with my App How the Covid tables have turned. In the pandemic’s initial stages, the Anglo world congratulated…
Cultural notes
Hobart’s historical heretics violated ‘Vitalist, unscrupulously optimistic cultures, cruel, bigoted and superstitious, all detest the grace-saving presence of the statue…
Covid notes
A day at the anti-lockdown rally When your only observations of protest marches are from television news reports, it’s easy…
Covid notes
Upholding the truth in a time of universal deceit Australia’s disproportionate March 2020 response to the Covid pandemic has morphed…
Euro notes
Europe’s rightward drift Two of the great issues which animated the woke EU establishment until recently were hatred of Donald…
Covid notes
Talkers, we need to talk.. Two things stand out almost immediately when one gets on an early morning train in…
Dis-con notes
Why no action on the ABC? What possible reason can any conservative have for voting for the Morrison government? Neil…
Euro notes
Woke juggernaut gets the wobbles It often feels as if the woke Left is omnipotent, razing all before it as…
Euro notes
Reds under the downing street beds Two unorthodox senior advisors to Number 10 deserve attention. The first and most prominent…
Euro notes
Boris Johnson’s eco-road to ruin The results of Scotland’s elections next week will dominate British politics for the foreseeable future.…
Anzac notes
Time for Rankin and Taylor to be rewarded After 78 years of injustice, finally last December 18-year- old naval sailor…
Medical notes
‘The Science’ versus science Science first became unwell when we had to suddenly accept, without any possibility of debate, the…
Euro notes
Europe’s political cross-dressers A good Tony Abbott story is that early during his time as an MP, he did a…
Euro notes
Boris & the nightmare of Lady MacStalin After Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former first minister, claimed his successor Nicola Sturgeon had…
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
