Heard about the US Department of Justice official who spilled the beans on the Biden administrations manufactured prosecutions of Donald Trump? No, well that's no surprise when reporters prefer the narrative to truth

How could it not be the Jews? That was the immediate surmise of, let us be frank, noxiously aggressive bigots and anti-Semites. Tayah’s restaurant was in Caulfield, the heart of Jewish Melbourne, there was a synagogue nearby.

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.

Yemen’s Houthis have been enjoying all sorts of fun and mischief lobbing missiles at passing ships, so far incurring only the slightest of lettuce-leaf slaps from the Biden administration. So much for Pax Americana.

Today, Peter Hartcher, who is reporting from America, has gone to press with his big wrap on the Democratic National Convention. It’s a very positive piece about the re-machined Kamala Harris

The final scene of Some Like it Hot leaves Joe E. Brown’s intentions and Jack Lemmon’s response somewhat up in the air.

Madam: I don’t know if you were following the stoush back in 2014 between the previous poetry editor of Overland, Peter Minter, and Quadrant and me. A lot of fireworks—even Andrew Bolt got involved.

Following up on her Quadrant Online report about the Family Court and the presumption of innocence so often denied men in troubled relationships, Bettina Arndt turns a critical eye on Movember.

Evidence that the world has gone mad grows harder to ignore. From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, these thoughts on what the queer perspective can bring to nuclear war.