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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
Evelyn Waugh and the Fourth Estate
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Volume 26: Essays, Articles and Reviews, 1922–1934
edited by Donat Gallagher
Oxford, 2018, 592 pages, £100
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In September last year, Oxford University Press produced the first fruit of a monumental project, “The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh”. Forty-three scholarly volumes of everything this complex, brilliant monster sacré wrote—from seven words on a postcard in March 1910 when he was seven, to his brother, Alec; to a letter penned on the morning of his death, April 10, 1966. And of course, everything in between—his bright young novels, his biographies, his travel books, his mordant comedies, his magnum opus Brideshead Revisited, his masterly Sword of Honour trilogy, his journalism, and his memoir of his early years.
Overseen, as general editor, by his grandson, Alexander Waugh, the project has lured the world’s leading Wavian scholars to introduce and annotate the novels, biographies, essays,…
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
