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Ute-Gate – A Perspective

By Jonathan Howcroft I want to describe the recent political battle between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Turnbull in Boxing parlance. I want to explain how Turnbull...

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Shamourn*

By Jonathan Howcroft I write this knowing only the vaguest of rumours circulating the death of Michael Jackson. I’m certain that he won’t be the first pop royalty to have rumours of his death greatly...

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J’Accuse The Chaser

By Jonathan Howcroft The greatest sporting commentary of all time was delivered during the final of the 1985 Embassy World Darts Championship. The match was a procession for the legendary Eric...

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The Perfect Weekend in Daylesford

By Jonathan Howcroft The perfect weekend away requires a few quality ingredients: informal accommodation, indulgent eateries and relaxing activities guaranteed to help you unwind. Fortunately for...

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Another Brick in the Wall

By Jonathan Howcroft After my name I am entitled to add the letters BA and MA. I only narrowly avoided committing to the minimum three years required to add P, H and D. I am 29, I have no idea what my...

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Beauty Mate

By Jonathan Howcroft Man was born to love Though often he has sought Like Icarus, to fly too high And far too lonely than he ought To kiss the sun of east and west And hold the world at his behest To...

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Walkabout, Why Don’t You Try It?

By Jonathan Howcroft Above: London from above, at night. As an Englishman with a reasonably distinctive accent I am often engaged in the following oxygen-wasting exchange: “So, you’re from the UK?”...

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The Perfect Gift for a Man

By Jonathan Howcroft I recently considered responding to a call for submissions for a collection of writing in support of the recent Reach Out and Triple J Man Week. The idea is to create an anthology...

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An Introduction

By Jonathan Howcroft Style Dressing like a man is simple. It requires style. Style, not fashion. Style, not conformity. Style, not product. Style begins with wearing what suits. All men suit...

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Formal Shirts

By Jonathan Howcroft All men wear shirts. They are the backbone of most men’s wardrobes. We work in shirts, and we socialise in shirts. Men are likely to own more shirts than any other single item of...

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Brad Lindenberg from Lind Golf

By Jonathan Howcroft It’s Not About The Golf Golf. Overweight, middle-aged men in magic-eye fabrics hunched over their wood. Sounds appealing doesn’t it? For so long a bastion of class, colour and...

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It’s More Than A Game

By Jonathan Howcroft Last night on The Footy Show Sam Newman called someone a monkey. More than once. He offered further detail by indicating that same person had only recently stopped swinging from...

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The First Layer

By Jonathan Howcroft Pants, boxers, briefs, jockeys, skivvies, scuds, smugglers, grundies, y-fronts, underchunders, beetles, daks or grits. However you appoint your weapon of choice, all face the same...

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Kim Lawler’s Between Lines

By Jonathan Howcroft Australia is massive. So huge that scale is rendered almost meaningless. Take The Kimberley in northern WA. Three times the size of England, twice the size of Victoria but with a...

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In Your Face

By Jonathan Howcroft Fortyfivedownstairs is temporarily home to some unfamiliar residents. Some of the residents would be unfamiliar to any home, let alone a whitewashed gallery space in a Melbourne...

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