Contrary to the aphorism and what you’re seeing in America, things don’t fall apart, the centre nearly always holds. Despite what you read democracy did not end when a protesting...
Beneath the noise of America’s Capitol Hill protests lurks the silent rise of Silicon Valley. Tens of thousands of social media users have vanished from the...
Ladies and gentlemen, please take an onion from your purse or pocket, peel it, hold it up to your eyes and weep freely. Channel 10 reports:...
As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than a crime, it was a mistake.”...
There are two writers whose analysis I try to almost always read – Aaron Patrick in the Fin and Troy Bramston in the Oz. This does...
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this...
Many of us have watched with fascination and horror what has been unfolding in the American capital over the past 24 hours. As a Yank living...
Kerry Schott, head of the Energy Security Board, the most senior of the dozen or so Australian regulatory bodies, is scolding state ministers for trying to...
In the battle of ideas, idiots are seldom useful. Look to Vladimir Lenin, who is reported to have coined the term to describe people “propagandizing for a...
Author’s Note: my editor refused to remove his (its) comments. Apologies. Stand and applaud, a great injustice has been corrected by the newly reelected Nancy Pelosi. (The noise of...