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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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...
View ArticleJ’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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleBeauty 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...
View ArticleWalkabout, 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?”...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleFormal 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...
View ArticleBrad 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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleKim 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...
View ArticleIn 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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