The Weekly Review

“Ready to face the enemy?” asks the cheerful rector at the beginning of the final, catastrophic nuptial scene of Mike Newell’s 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

There we were: the most unlikely collection of drinking buddies this side of the Star Wars cantina.

It really is another country over there in the west, and don’t they know it.

According to The Mapping Social Cohesion Survey by Monash University, released last week, we’re confused about the number of migrants coming to Australia.

Some time before the failure of a 2006 US constitutional amendment to prohibit the desecration of the American flag, the British-born but American-naturalised writer and intellectual, Christopher Hitchens, mused on his anxiety at accidentally disparaging Old Glory.