Tag: Satire
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Courting Princess Ingrid Alexandra
Reminiscing with a friend about our university days, and how our academic endeavours took second place to meeting new people and the pursuit of a campus romance, I made an innocuous comment that produced a strange effect in him. We had been lefties at university but Colin never grew out of it. A life-long socialist,…
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A legend for life
This appeared in The Spectator Australia – here. Talking with an old friend recently about relations between the sexes, I said men these days don’t know if they’re Arthur or Martha. My friend’s name is Keny with one ‘n’, which he considers a mark of distinction bestowed by his parents. He is an academic and…
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The new self-fu*king help books
A G-rated version of this little article was published in The Spectator Australia – here. The original version, as submitted to The Spectator Australia, is below. In a bookshop at Adelaide airport last Christmas I saw a well-dressed woman, seemingly in her mid-sixties, looking studiously at the front and back covers of a book entitled…
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Sic note
We all make mistakes. To quote the Augustan satirist Alexander Pope, “to err is humanistic”. But we also like to point out other people’s mistakes and in the written form we do this with ‘sic’, the term inserted into a sentence (in parentheses) to make it clear that the mistake is not ours. It is…
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#newedition
At the time of writing, December 2020, the #newedition movement can be considered a true global phenomenon. As it sets about the work of re-writing world history in the manner it should always have been written, it represents the most significant mountain that our noble progressive movement has yet climbed. But the one thing that…
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