Leonardo da Vinci
The late Leonardo
The Louvre’s anniversary exhibition has been a fraught exercise from first to last
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity