The demise of our previous monarch has unleashed a veritable orgy of mass outpourings of grief, veneration and nostalgia. Media…
Holy Smokes!
Today we’re inaugurating an occasional showcasing, without commentary, of a randomly interesting and/or surprising new factoid, which must be shared.…
CBD: Central But Dead
The Emerald City aka Sydney lost its allure for office workers when the pandemic gave them a choice to work…
Stasi Stealth
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope is not literature, but it makes a convincing…
ScoMo ScumBag
Sorry folks, for the vulgar epithet, but scumbag is as scumbag does. Our erstwhile PM Scotty Morrison literally knows no…
Qantas Qandary
Breaking News: Qantas to Phase out Passengers in Plan to Improve Service (PIS) In a new strategy that it says…
Ukraine Unity
Every conversation in Germany and France, during a recent sojourn, included discussion of the Ukraine war, conveying a palpable feeling…
Berlin & Beyond
Kookynie may be a thriving hub of cosmopolitan life, but after two years of pandemic confinement your International Affairs correspondent…
Putin? PUTAIN!*
Further to Once Upon a Time in Russia and its portrayal of three of the original oligarchs, my new recommendation…
Cradle Mountain Dreaming
PART ONE KINDRED: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge is the engaging biographical story of Gustav Weindorfer and…
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