| Opinion and Analysis | Updated January 30, 2012 |
Bell pepper, pimiento, capsicum, sweet pepper, bullnose pepper – depending on where you reside the name will vary. And Christopher Columbus can be blamed for the confusion: on his voyage to Asia, the land of the spice pepper, he entered the Caribbean and believed that he had found pepper when he was served a powdered version of hot capsicum in a dish. Read more »
There are three little magic words that thrill every mother to the core. Back To School. Thank Christ they’ve gone. Yeah I love them. Yeah I’d lay down my life for them. I just don’t want them on my flipping couch watching Dr Phil moaning ‘there’s no foood’. To which I reply: ‘yes there is food’. Them: ‘Well, there’s nothing good to ea Read more »
The first duty of sailors is to rescue those in danger, irrespective of whether they be friend or foe.Young men and women join the Royal Australian Navy for a variety of reasons: to fight for their country against its enemies, to learn a trade, to see the world, in the hope of adventure, or even to experience what Winston Churchill described as the tradition of ‘rum, sodomy and the lash&r Read more »
Where does one draw the line over the liberty we give society’s antagonists? Should free speech really have limits? Read more »
There was a duck in my freezer, and it was time to bring it out. One of AJ’s beautiful birds, it would do wonderfully, I was thinking, for Gwyneth Paltrow’s Duck Ragu which I planned to serve to friends. Out of the freezer it came and I peered closely at the fine print. From frozen state, I read, use within six months of purchase. That had been April; now it was January, which meant Read more »
There’s something strange about going back somewhere that you once knew as a child. Everything seems so much smaller, or stiller, and it’s always much less impressive. Places that seemed magical in childhood have their mundanity revealed in adulthood. That is perhaps the beauty of childhood, as infantile perception and lack of experience allows us to construct much more elaborate st Read more »
Against Clubs Australia’s vulnerable tirades, Gillard maintained a stubborn silence, leaving it to GetUp to mount a reply.On the door of King Charles II’s bedchamber, the Earl of Rochester, a notable wit, once pinned a note. It read:‘Here lies our sovereign lord, the KingWhose word no man relies on;He never says a foolish thingNor ever does a wise one.’ Unfortunately the Read more »
As editor, it’s important to spend time outside The Echo chamber. Validating your own opinions, while a human trait, must be resisted at all costs.So this week I asked myself, who are the top conservative intellectuals that have influenced the West? Unsurprisingly, Australia hasn’t produced any real heavyweights; much of our cues come from the US and the UK. Read more »