Not an airport bookshop…possum calls my balcony home. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Fig Tree on Kangaroo Island gets a fine review in the @ftweekend.com So well deserved, for an island devastated by the 2019-20 bushfires which burnt 48% of the landscape. And still recovering.

When mongrels became “designer” dogs. Reminds me of when tomatoes became “heritage”. Tomatoes better option.

Thanks @newseye.bsky.social #auspol

Another historic Melbourne house demolition. Ken-Aitsa, designed in 1933 by Arnaud E Wright at Avalon Road, Armadale. Developer David Joachim of Third Street has its future in hand. 🔽 thirdstreet.com.au/about/about-... #Architecturedestroyed #Heritage @philipthalis.bsky.social

BP pays Meg O’Neill £11.7M this year for her contribution in generating global climate chaos

Give Albo some credit…#auspol

Peter Thiel…I’m seeing your name trending for all the right reasons

Loss of desire - food ✅fags ✅ alcohol ✅ sex 😳…get a grip with the joyful, insightful David Remnick who only seeks tip top truths…@newyorker

Loss of desire - food ✅fags ✅ alcohol ✅ sex 😳…get a grip with the joyful, insightful David Remnick who only seeks tip top truths…@newyorker

Who owns Top End Pastoral? Michael Simmich and Clayton Coleman - well equipped for environmental vandalism - ‘earthmoving and the construction industry’ their expertise #auspol

Trump’s ambassador to France (felon and father-in-law to Ivanka) gets a taste of French froideur. 🇫🇷 Disreputable creep was sentenced (and served) 2 years imprisonment for tax evasion & illegal campaign contributions. Now a disbarred attorney, but pardoned for his crimes by Trump.

Peter Thiel sues Swiss journal Republik for detailing #Palantir’s unsuccessful attempts to win Swiss fed govt contracts. Link to original story. www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/h... Remember when Thiel put Gawker out of business?

Berkshire Hathaway invests $350M in @nytimes.com

Memo Minns govt & NSW Supreme Court…#auspol

…”the stranger in our midst..” the supreme line. #Trump #Springsteen

The governor of California launches an investigation into TikTok following accusations of censoring "content critical of Trump." Hint to TT users…don’t expect you can write ‘Epstein’ and pass the censor

For the record 💥…#ClimateCrisis #AO2026 #Melbourne

Gaël Monfils 🇫🇷 bows out of the #AO2026 with a standing ovation. He first played in the 2004 boy’s title. Thanks for the greatest showmanship in tennis of the last decade. We adored you.

Président Macron declines 🇫🇷 Trump’s Board of Peace…#auspol @albomp.bsky.social

They said it couldn’t be done. Good start Australia. #socialmedia France and Malaysia move to follow the ban, the UK govt under pressure

Superb insights on the mind of the grandiose narcissist via @nytimes.com #paywall from Thomas B Edsall

44 degrees in Melbourne is high anxiety for chikkies - and this anxious ‘minder’. They survived - with lots of chilled melon, extra shallow bowls of water…and all digits crossed 🐓

Tennis inflation… 🎾Total purse for Aus Open increases by 16% in 2026 to Aus$111.5mn. 🎾 Ouch: decent ticket for Women’s Final a lazy $1,999. #ausopen

What gross positioning of stories @ftweekend.com

President Macron’s NYE speech outlines his intent to ban social media for children under 15 - a ban supported by 79% of parents. #auspol via @nytimes.com #paywall

This lovely stand of 250 Monterey pines transports me to the Med. In fact they are in Shoreham, Victoria. Planted in the early 1900s as windbreaks between sea and shoreside properties…unique for their aesthetic and historic importance

Australia’s native Ceratopetalum gummiferum - Christmas Bush to you and I. Happy Christmas 🎄

Gotta love Private Eye. 🎄

Love them #friendlyjordies ‘the facts Jack’… as was once correct reporting…no longer on MSM

Anton Jäger’s 5th column for @NYT knocking Europe. An ‘Opinion’ writer with one opinion - greatly exaggerating the death of Europe #paywall

Bernie Sanders calls out Netanyahu on his criticism of @albomp.bsky.social #auspol #bondi

The NYT opines, inaccurately, from the other side of the world #auspol

“One power broker (FIFA) had two adjoining grace and favour apartments in #Trump Tower in NY - one exclusively for his cats”… Riveting scandal - #podcast #slownews @basialc.bsky.social @rorysmith.bsky.social

“Very proud of Australia that they have taken a stand on social media” - Anna Wintour, global chief content officer of #Vogue, overseeing 28 international editions. #podcast ‘Leading’ with @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social + Rory Stewart

Book Club host endorses Australia’s ban on social media for teens 📚

The profound effects when a Board entrusted with a 133-year old Charitable Trust, housing 163 aged pensioners, holding assets of $72+M, ‘gifts’ it to social housing. Thanks for your intervention @mon4kooyong.bsky.social and ABC’s Andi Lu

You don’t need a #Dell for Christmas 🎄

New AI-generated ad campaign for Valentino’s DeVain clutch bag - is ‘inspired’ by 16th century art. Good thing dead artists don’t sue.

France: More than 80 MPs are calling for "a ban on Shein in French territory" to "protect workers, public health and the planet", in a text published in La Tribune Dimanche.

Tina Brown on: Zuckerberg; “Meta’s slippery salamander” Prince Harry; “the ginger whinger” Lauren Sanchez; “proof landing the 4th riches man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit” Listen to Brown whose observations are in a class of their own

Who knew…your 🇮🇹 ‘Italian’ tomato paste may have its origins in 🇨🇳 China, the fruit routinely harvested by Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region. Via @ftweekend.com #paywall

… @nytimes.com offers up a poem as an anti-dote to doomscrolling. Someone tell them there’s good news to report…

One for all, all for one. Billionaires aside. Illustration by Edel Rodriguez. @newyorker.com

Efforts by Chinese fast fashion retailer #Shein to open in-store across France are met with a giant dose of French froideur. Staff at BHV Paris strike, while French brands pull out of the fabled dept store. French retail revolution 🇫🇷

Australia’s social media ban shows the way writes Rohan Silva in The Times UK. #paywall

1500+ lobbyists in Canberra act - not for you - but corporate interests. If you care for transparency in Fed government sign up. 👇🏻 Let the light in.💡 #auspol cleanuppoliticsact.com.au

You can’t choose your parents #Mountbatten-Windsor

If you love Melbourne you know the heartbeat is the top end of Bourke Street (Hill of Content- books; best shirtmaker - Charles Edward, plus fashion in Blonde Venus plus Florentino) …so here’s a film celebrating the legend at the heart of it all. Yay Pellegrini’s. Love you forever.