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It's not just free speech they aim to curtail, it's also our right to rejoice in national landmarks
Oct 07 2024
5 mins
Norway’s pride in its democracy has been tainted by the May recognition of Palestine
Oct 07 2024
9 mins
I criticised the quality of Chinese electrical goods, then they came after me for revenge
Oct 06 2024
8 mins
Sean Beckett: ‘Kind of Blue’
Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue: your favorite jazz album.
And most people’s, but certainly not mine.
I need more sugar in my platinum
records, prefer grape fizzy pop to wine.
Honestly, I like my music best high-
fructose-corn-syruped and carbonated.
Miles Davis, though, doesn’t try to hide
all his hurt under a chlorinated
whipped-cream cover. He is too trustworthy,
and I want my music to lie to me.
His moody modal sketches don’t hurry
me through to sweet satisfaction. Maybe
we just take our artificial differently.
You sip jazz straight, but Splenda your coffee.
Sean Beckett
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
