by P.G. Davies | Jul 16, 2026 | blog
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently played ‘Shag, Marry, Date’ on the Bush Deep podcast and admitted he would like to be balls deep in Kylie Minogue. This brings a new tone to Australian diplomacy and the next time Albo meets the Pope, he could ask...
by P.G. Davies | Jun 30, 2026 | blog
I have just spent two weeks in France and experienced the glories of French food. We had some great seafood across France particularly in Sete, which is a seaside/fishing harbour near Montpellier. Our best meal was undoubtedly at Chateau Carlmagnus, the Fronsac...
by P.G. Davies | Jun 7, 2026 | blog
Having had no option but to arrive early in London (think Iran, other people’s business diaries), I have been doing a bit of the Tommy Tourist, which one day meant going to Hampton Court. It would have been a pleasurable experience if not for the hordes of small...
by P.G. Davies | May 30, 2026 | blog
London bound again this time on Singapore Airlines. I am looking forward to visiting Singapore again as I used to have a close association with it, but I have not been there for nearly 30 years. When I first started my career a long, long time ago, Singapore...
by P.G. Davies | May 10, 2026 | blog
In the Australian Financial Review this week I read an article that the French have four public holidays in May. According to a French intellectual this is because ‘we live in a country where obligations are imposed on citizens because they are not consumers first. ...
by P.G. Davies | Apr 16, 2026 | blog
So Mad March is over. The Festival and the Fringe are gone, and the Writers’ Festival never was, much to my dismay. It is such a rich source of material with the bien-pensant, like geese, being force-fed more of what they already believe. The echo chamber would have...
