Howzat Howard!

Since we’re talking about shortcomings of Australian PMs, a recent release of Federal Cabinet papers from 2005 definitively nails one … More

Albo the Abdicator

PM Anthony Albanese has an uninspiring, slippery character, honed by a lifetime of political practice, the dark arts of Labor … More

Vincent

The 2018 film by Julian Schnabel titled At Eternity’s Gate is a real gem, which somehow escaped my attention till … More

WW2 Crimes & Justice

Neo Nazis are again on the march in Australia. The National Socialist Network is looking more professional than previous scrofulous … More

China & Chumps

His Magnificence King Donald will no doubt get bored eventually with this whole tariffs caper, but I reckon it’s timely … More

The Mystery of Artur Loureiro

While viewing an exhibition of European paintings in a Porto (Portugal) art gallery two years ago, I was surprised to … More

‘The Brilliant Outsider’

The compelling biography of George Ingle Finch by Robert Wainwright is aptly subtitled ‘the boy from the bush who set … More

Fateful Footsteps

Intro Reflecting some years ago on dramatic political developments in countries I had visited from the 1970s on, I noticed … More

Democracy Dump (by) Trump

Planet-threatening DDT is sprayed worldwide by one unhinged individual following his base authoritarian ‘instincts’. That last word comes from the … More

Pyramid Plonk Passé

Aesthetic vindication can take decades to arrive, but last week in Paris my original judgement of the Louvre’s (in)famous glass … More