Desperation has taken over the Treasury.
Jim Chalmers is staring down a trillion-dollar black hole which is threatening to consume the bedrock of Labor’s leadership strategy – soft-core socialism.
Thanks to poor choices, reckless spending, self-indulgent policy, and attempts to buy voter loyalty with last-minute election promises – the wealth of ...
Dear Antiquity,
It is 2025 AD, and Western Civilisation is on the precipice.
We have ignored the lessons you forewarned us of.
Countless exemplars that you provided in the hope the future would not repeat the mistakes of the past are obsolete.
History is being rewritten by those who seek to destroy their own nations. Men and women who seek power for ...
Every so often in Australia’s housing debate, an idea pops up that perfectly captures where our culture has gone astray. The latest is the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ – a proposal to make it more expensive to own more bedrooms than one supposedly ‘needs’. The argument goes that if older Australians were financially pressured to downsize out of their family ...
Amid the shouting match between NIMBYs and YIMBYs, between mass-migration extremists and advocates of sensible population policy, between spiralling housing prices and the wider economy, few seem willing to ask the deeper questions about housing itself.
Why does it matter that people own a home? If it’s cheaper, why not settle for a nation of renters? ...
The unclued lights reveal the titles of six Westerns: 1A, 1D/38/26, 18/5/43, 20/11, 23 and 45/24.
First prize Basia Jones, London WC1
Runners-up Michael Crapper, Whitchurch, Hants; Geoff Hollas, London W12
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Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new storehouse in Stratford’s Olympic Park are being enthralled by an atmospherically lit chamber devoted to the display of one vast and magnificent work of art: Picasso’s 10 metre-high, 11 metre-wide drop-curtain for Le Train Bleu, a popular hit of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, first seen in 1924. The canvas, ...
As Sigmund Freud pointed out way back in 1905, everyone feels a bit schizo about Mum. On the one hand, she carried you in the womb, she probably nursed you at the nipple. She made the greatest of sacrifices so that you exist. Heck, maybe you really love her cooking.
On the other hand, you have to escape her. The Italians have a brilliantly pejorative ...
One of the facts that emerges from this detailed study of ‘modern British aristocracy’ is that the divorce rate among peers is roughly twice that of the rest of us, although the old unwritten adage that it didn’t much matter how you behaved provided discretion prevailed has long held good among many. Witness the 10th Duke of Beaufort, one of whose many ...
Moore problems
Sir: Many years ago a colleague warned me that I was so impossibly uncool that one day I was bound to become hip. Has this moment arrived? Charles Moore (Notes, 23 August) informs me that there is a ‘currently fashionable conservatism’ which is ‘militantly against Ukraine’. By this he presumably means not regarding Ukraine as a sort of ...
In 1620, in the Staffordshire market town of Bilston, a teenage boy decided he didn’t much fancy going to school. Rather than resort to conventional methods, 13-year-old William Perry claimed that he was possessed by a demon. His symptoms included reacting with spasms to the reading of the first verse of St John’s Gospel and peeing blue ...
‘The problems of financing our deficits have seriously hampered progress in achieving our goals,’ wrote Labour’s chancellor Denis Healey in 1976 in his letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Half a century on, little has changed.
Britain’s numbers still don’t add up. Our demographics are the problem: we’re an ageing population with too few ...
As a snapshot of our country, you’ll be pressed to find anything quite so resonant as the one which depicts a leading member of our Skankerati sitting in an inflatable off the southern coast of the UK with tattoo and vape in attendance. There has been much debate of late about the very large numbers of other people bobbing about in the English Channel ...
Desperation has taken over the Treasury.
Jim Chalmers is staring down a trillion-dollar black hole which is threatening to consume the bedrock of Labor’s leadership strategy – soft-core socialism.
Thanks to poor choices, reckless spending, self-indulgent policy, and attempts to buy voter loyalty with last-minute election promises – the wealth of ...
Dear Antiquity,
It is 2025 AD, and Western Civilisation is on the precipice.
We have ignored the lessons you forewarned us of.
Countless exemplars that you provided in the hope the future would not repeat the mistakes of the past are obsolete.
History is being rewritten by those who seek to destroy their own nations. Men and women who seek power for ...
Every so often in Australia’s housing debate, an idea pops up that perfectly captures where our culture has gone astray. The latest is the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ – a proposal to make it more expensive to own more bedrooms than one supposedly ‘needs’. The argument goes that if older Australians were financially pressured to downsize out of their family ...
Amid the shouting match between NIMBYs and YIMBYs, between mass-migration extremists and advocates of sensible population policy, between spiralling housing prices and the wider economy, few seem willing to ask the deeper questions about housing itself.
Why does it matter that people own a home? If it’s cheaper, why not settle for a nation of renters? ...
The unclued lights reveal the titles of six Westerns: 1A, 1D/38/26, 18/5/43, 20/11, 23 and 45/24.
First prize Basia Jones, London WC1
Runners-up Michael Crapper, Whitchurch, Hants; Geoff Hollas, London W12
Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below.
Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new storehouse in Stratford’s Olympic Park are being enthralled by an atmospherically lit chamber devoted to the display of one vast and magnificent work of art: Picasso’s 10 metre-high, 11 metre-wide drop-curtain for Le Train Bleu, a popular hit of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, first seen in 1924. The canvas, ...
As Sigmund Freud pointed out way back in 1905, everyone feels a bit schizo about Mum. On the one hand, she carried you in the womb, she probably nursed you at the nipple. She made the greatest of sacrifices so that you exist. Heck, maybe you really love her cooking.
On the other hand, you have to escape her. The Italians have a brilliantly pejorative ...
One of the facts that emerges from this detailed study of ‘modern British aristocracy’ is that the divorce rate among peers is roughly twice that of the rest of us, although the old unwritten adage that it didn’t much matter how you behaved provided discretion prevailed has long held good among many. Witness the 10th Duke of Beaufort, one of whose many ...
Moore problems
Sir: Many years ago a colleague warned me that I was so impossibly uncool that one day I was bound to become hip. Has this moment arrived? Charles Moore (Notes, 23 August) informs me that there is a ‘currently fashionable conservatism’ which is ‘militantly against Ukraine’. By this he presumably means not regarding Ukraine as a sort of ...
In 1620, in the Staffordshire market town of Bilston, a teenage boy decided he didn’t much fancy going to school. Rather than resort to conventional methods, 13-year-old William Perry claimed that he was possessed by a demon. His symptoms included reacting with spasms to the reading of the first verse of St John’s Gospel and peeing blue ...
‘The problems of financing our deficits have seriously hampered progress in achieving our goals,’ wrote Labour’s chancellor Denis Healey in 1976 in his letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Half a century on, little has changed.
Britain’s numbers still don’t add up. Our demographics are the problem: we’re an ageing population with too few ...
As a snapshot of our country, you’ll be pressed to find anything quite so resonant as the one which depicts a leading member of our Skankerati sitting in an inflatable off the southern coast of the UK with tattoo and vape in attendance. There has been much debate of late about the very large numbers of other people bobbing about in the English Channel ...
