Monarchy Must Go

The demise of our previous monarch has unleashed a veritable orgy of mass outpourings of grief, veneration and nostalgia. Media … More

CBD: Central But Dead

The Emerald City aka Sydney lost its allure for office workers when the pandemic gave them a choice to work … More

The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope is not literature, but it makes a convincing … More

Sorry folks, for the vulgar epithet, but scumbag is as scumbag does. Our erstwhile PM Scotty Morrison literally knows no … More

Breaking News: Qantas to Phase out Passengers in Plan to Improve Service (PIS) In a new strategy that it says … More

Every conversation in Germany and France, during a recent sojourn, included discussion of the Ukraine war, conveying a palpable feeling … More

Kookynie may be a thriving hub of cosmopolitan life, but after two years of pandemic confinement your International Affairs correspondent … More

Further to Once Upon a Time in Russia and its portrayal of three of the original oligarchs, my new recommendation … More

PART ONE KINDRED: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge is the engaging biographical story of Gustav Weindorfer and … More

Hilary Mantel’s epic tome (first in a trilogy) is fictionalised biography of Thomas Cromwell and history of the early Tudor … More