Windleton: royal marriage mockery open thread
So Wills and Kate have decided to provide the British government with a welcome distraction and announced their engagement. Quentin Bryce, through must have been a particularly fixed smile, announced that this has warmed our nation’s heart. In honour of [...]
Education, elitism and meritocracy
The Economist speculated this week that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government in the UK might come to be seen as “government by the southern rich for the southern rich”. Skepticlawyer has an interesting post at her eponymous blog, riffing off [...]
Turnbull on Prince William, Australian identity and the Republic
Intriguing to see that Malcolm Turnbull is about the only Australian political figure who’s put Prince William’s visit into some sort of political context. Writing in The Times, the erstwhile Liberal leader puts his finger on a conception of Australian [...]
Prince William comes to town
A number of the commenters on the earliest political memories thread recalled having been taken as schoolkids to see Her Maj, and a number of us also recalled weird little pledges and scratchy recordings of ‘God Save the Queen’ being [...]
Turnbull to found a new party?
I mentioned in my previous post that a lot of speculation has now turned to Malcolm Turnbull’s intentions should he lose the leadership tomorrow. I also linked to the thoughts of Christopher Joye of Business Spectator. This paragraph is particularly [...]
Prince Harry
Colonel Bob Stewart, writing at the Guardian’s Comment is Free: Prince Harry’s comments were little more than everyday army banter. He’s no racist – his heart is definitely in the right place. Since the comedy stylings of Professor David Flint [...]
Revisiting the Act of Settlement
According to The Guardian, the British government is apparently proposing to revise the Act of Settlement, which governs succession to the British throne. In essence, the proposal seeks to remove the primacy of male heirs over female ones. Secondly, it [...]
Quentin Bryce becomes Governor-General
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bryce.jpg" align=left History has been made with the swearing in of Quentin Bryce as Australia’s first female Governor-General. I was interested to read in the Fin Review yesterday that there’s supposedly some social progress because she will become Patron [...]
Recent Comments