We often talk about the agony of modern TV – the hopeless collapse of entertainment into the seething, blind, mindless nest of streaming service offspring governed by a diversity box-ticking exercise.
Polished by CGI and edited with ChatGPT, it is designed to flicker in the background while the audience doomscrolls on their phone.
At least we still ...
Soon, theatre-goers strolling past Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide – the very stage where Barry Humphries made his theatrical debut as a 19-year-old in 1953, and later called his favourite theatre in the world – will encounter a new bronze statue in his honour.
In December 2025, Adelaide City Council approved the $313,083 sculpture, to be crafted by ...
In Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood delivers one of greatest lines in cinema history:
A man’s gotta know his limitations.
It is wisdom so simple that one can only marvel at the lengths Treasurer Jim Chalmers has gone to avoid absorbing it.
Chalmers is Australia’s Treasurer, a title that in his hands, carries roughly the same reassurance as finding out ...
I got married last year and was shocked to find that it would be more than three times as expensive to get married in the church as it would be in the town hall. Most people have no idea what General Synod – the national assembly for the Church of England – is, and this week it quietly decided how expensive marriage will be for the next quinquennium. ...
At the height of John Howard, poodle politics reigned. Party discipline was tight, Ministries unified, and crossing the floor was anathema. From deep within this primordial electoral soup, the late Don Randall emerged. Contrarian, fearless, and pragmatic, this Western Australian ex-teacher won a record 7.2 per cent swing in 2004, becoming the first of ...
There is a palpable, renewed optimism now that Angus Taylor and Jane Hume are at the helm of the Liberal Party. ‘Change or die,’ says Taylor. It’s an honest phase, one that well captures the situation the Coalition finds itself in. While nothing in politics is ever certain, I’ll admit that the confidence in Taylor expressed by Tony Abbott and others is ...
Just when you thought sanity might prevail as more and more overseas doctors, health officials, and politicians are becoming aware of the dangers of the cultural-left’s radical gender and sexuality theory – the NSW Education Department has descended to a new low.
By now, NSW schools would have received an official enrolment notice stating a new ...
British Jews are under threat. That was the blunt warning from Sir Stephen Watson after a jury at Preston Crown Court convicted Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein of preparing acts of terrorism. The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police said that had their plan succeeded it would have been ‘one of the worst atrocities’ the world had seen. He was ...
It’s the end of the working day on a Friday, and punters are steadily beginning to fill up Sparkhill’s last remaining pub. Landlord Mark McDwyer pulls another pint of Guinness (only £4.60), our conversation punctuated by the thwack of pool balls from the table behind us.
‘This is the headquarters of the Birmingham Pool League,’ he says proudly. His ...
I don’t know if ‘gaun yersel, yer excellency’ translates into Japanese but the salutation is on the lips of many a Glaswegian after Hiroshi Suzuki’s visit to the city. Japan’s ambassador to the Court of St James’s has been love-bombing the United Kingdom since his appointment in 2024, making his way around the country with his little Paddington Bear ...
India are very likely to win the T20 World Cup that they are currently co-hosting with Sri Lanka. They won the last one, in the US and the Caribbean, in mid-2024. They are also very likely to win the 2028 tournament in Australia and New Zealand and the 2030 tournament that is so far away that the hosts have yet to be chosen. This is because the Indian ...
We often talk about the agony of modern TV – the hopeless collapse of entertainment into the seething, blind, mindless nest of streaming service offspring governed by a diversity box-ticking exercise.
Polished by CGI and edited with ChatGPT, it is designed to flicker in the background while the audience doomscrolls on their phone.
At least we still ...
Soon, theatre-goers strolling past Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide – the very stage where Barry Humphries made his theatrical debut as a 19-year-old in 1953, and later called his favourite theatre in the world – will encounter a new bronze statue in his honour.
In December 2025, Adelaide City Council approved the $313,083 sculpture, to be crafted by ...
In Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood delivers one of greatest lines in cinema history:
A man’s gotta know his limitations.
It is wisdom so simple that one can only marvel at the lengths Treasurer Jim Chalmers has gone to avoid absorbing it.
Chalmers is Australia’s Treasurer, a title that in his hands, carries roughly the same reassurance as finding out ...
I got married last year and was shocked to find that it would be more than three times as expensive to get married in the church as it would be in the town hall. Most people have no idea what General Synod – the national assembly for the Church of England – is, and this week it quietly decided how expensive marriage will be for the next quinquennium. ...
At the height of John Howard, poodle politics reigned. Party discipline was tight, Ministries unified, and crossing the floor was anathema. From deep within this primordial electoral soup, the late Don Randall emerged. Contrarian, fearless, and pragmatic, this Western Australian ex-teacher won a record 7.2 per cent swing in 2004, becoming the first of ...
There is a palpable, renewed optimism now that Angus Taylor and Jane Hume are at the helm of the Liberal Party. ‘Change or die,’ says Taylor. It’s an honest phase, one that well captures the situation the Coalition finds itself in. While nothing in politics is ever certain, I’ll admit that the confidence in Taylor expressed by Tony Abbott and others is ...
Just when you thought sanity might prevail as more and more overseas doctors, health officials, and politicians are becoming aware of the dangers of the cultural-left’s radical gender and sexuality theory – the NSW Education Department has descended to a new low.
By now, NSW schools would have received an official enrolment notice stating a new ...
British Jews are under threat. That was the blunt warning from Sir Stephen Watson after a jury at Preston Crown Court convicted Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein of preparing acts of terrorism. The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police said that had their plan succeeded it would have been ‘one of the worst atrocities’ the world had seen. He was ...
It’s the end of the working day on a Friday, and punters are steadily beginning to fill up Sparkhill’s last remaining pub. Landlord Mark McDwyer pulls another pint of Guinness (only £4.60), our conversation punctuated by the thwack of pool balls from the table behind us.
‘This is the headquarters of the Birmingham Pool League,’ he says proudly. His ...
I don’t know if ‘gaun yersel, yer excellency’ translates into Japanese but the salutation is on the lips of many a Glaswegian after Hiroshi Suzuki’s visit to the city. Japan’s ambassador to the Court of St James’s has been love-bombing the United Kingdom since his appointment in 2024, making his way around the country with his little Paddington Bear ...
India are very likely to win the T20 World Cup that they are currently co-hosting with Sri Lanka. They won the last one, in the US and the Caribbean, in mid-2024. They are also very likely to win the 2028 tournament in Australia and New Zealand and the 2030 tournament that is so far away that the hosts have yet to be chosen. This is because the Indian ...
