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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Cool Britannia
Andrew McIntyre enjoyed the royal wedding:
Royal Marriage and cultural vengeance
This is the cool Britannia … at last
There was much more than just the pageantry and romance of a royal wedding in last Friday’s wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Britain has effectively been beaten around the ears for a long time recently. Not only by the financial crisis, but by the politically correct, by the government’s apparent paralysis faced with Islamic extremists, by uncontrolled immigration, by a legal system gone mad where there is a profound sense that everyone except the British have rights and where even the Union Jack is considered some sort of insensitive symbol that is insulting to newer arrivals.
In this context the wedding was an emphatic blast of confidence building. All the nay sayers, the cynics of the republican commentariat seem to have been swept aside in the tidal wave of enthusiasm and unashamed approval of the event. Both Kathy Lette and her pompous husband…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
