Guest notes
Election notes
At the Anglican boarding school I attended in England as a scholarship boy from the age of ten it often…
London notes
A Right shambles One of the glories of London is its vast Hyde Park and adjoining Kensington Gardens. On a…
Dis-con notes
How to Vote, conservatively With only a week until the election, we Dis-Cons (disaffected conservatives) face a dilemma. A Labor…
Campaign notes
Shorten’s bottom line Could Bill Shorten‘s ‘Hewson moment’ be a similar turning point in the Coalition’s election campaign? Such a…
Political notes
Trudeau & the Virtuecrats It is too depressing to say anything much about the UK and Brexit. Well over half…
Rhetorical Notes
In the somewhat distant days of my early manhood rhetorical language – that is language designed solely to persuade or…
Zeitgeist notes
The Inquirer section of the Weekend Australian March 16-17 kicked off with a veritable drum roll performed vigorously by editor-at-large…
Naval notes
Australian bravery ignored Incompetence, inertia and injustice mar the fighting record of our World War II Navy, and our government…
China notes
Australia’s China obsession: get over it The Chinese economy is slowing, and everyone except the Chinese Communist Party knows it.…
Catholic notes
My personal thoughts on Cardinal Pell’s conviction From what I can tell, this is the crime for which George Cardinal…
Kiwi notes
What ScoMo should have said to Jacinda ‘Thank you Prime Minister Ardern for those blunt comments just now in which…
Aesthetic notes
Earlier this week I attended a vast party thrown by Tim Storrier in Bowral to celebrate his and his twin…
Political notes
Refusing to accept the vote One sign of the collapse of political order in a country is the refusal of…
Sports notes
James Allan’s notes last week about unenviable aspects of Australian tennis certainly struck a chord with me. When in Sydney,…
Sports notes
Tennis as progressive ideology As I have made clear once or twice already in the pages of this august magazine,…
Blasphemy notes
Affection for the Prophet more than for life itself The plight of the Pakistani Christian woman known as Asia Bibi…
Identity notes
Colourful opinions In the last edition of the Saturday Paper for 2018 there is an article by a self-styled ‘Person…
Brexit notes
Parris and the mob No doubt many readers viewed with incredulity Speccie columnist Matthew Parris’s nostalgia for the democratic process…
Conservative notes
Lefty Tory Brits Arriving in London for a posting at Australia House during the dying days of the Blair government,…
Submarine notes
The build-process for our new subs will be disastrous Of all of the possible solutions to Australia’s need for submarines,…
Presidential notes
Insiders and Outsiders Buckle up, US political junkies! We are now just moments away from the starting gun being fired…
Rainy day notes
As I write rain is absolutely bucketing down in the form of what is commonly known in the UK as…
Teaching notes
TEACHER’S VOW TO TURN KIDS OFF LIBS: so read the lesser front-page headline of the Australian on November 21. From…
Dis-con notes
Next please, PM Last week’s editorial, ‘In praise of the PM’, rightly gave Prime Minister Scott Morrison ‘full marks ……
Terrorism notes
PM’s plain speaking about motivations and excuses The Commonwealth criminal code defines ‘terrorist act’ as one intended to coerce or…
