Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
At about the point that Hu Jin-Tao was subtly making his House of Representatives case for Captain Cook being a Johnny come lately, news came...
William Safire is not a smart man
Here he is, wondering why those pesky Kurds don't want Turkish troops in Iraq: My old buddies the Kurds, a long-mistreated people we freed from...
All High Court decisions online
I'll try and shut up for the rest of the day after this, and let other armadillos have a go, but I can't let the...
A la recherche de lovely, limpid prose
If I was Wendy I'd be right chuffed by Sophie Masson's compliment about her "lovely, limpid" prose style (an evaluation which I share, for what...
Late night random thoughts
Every Thursday night at around 8pm the same questions occur to me. Was John Clark actually as funny as I remember when he was Fred...
Despatch from Bolivia
Suzy Kruhse's son Dan and his wife Tarun are presently backpacking in South America. Their timing might have been improved, because right now they're in...
On Peace and Prizes
The visits of Presidents Bush and Hu may be big news elsewhere but, interestingly, the brouhaha du jour in Sydney appears to be the Sydney...