If I lived in London, anywhere in London, I would make the necessary journey once a week to indulge in a lunchtime prawn and fish wrap from Applebee’s in the foodie heaven the lovely art deco Borough Market, Southwark. Ah, one can only dream. It is, as they say, seriously good nosh. And it’s…
How a foreign minister’s memoir morphed into a political version of Bridget Jones’s Diary
Political memoirs are not renowned for being a scintillating read. But the publication this week of Diary of a Foreign Minister, written by of Bob Carr, the undertaker-faced former Labor premier of New South Wales, who spent a scant 18 months in his “dream job” as Australia’s globe-trotting foreign minister,…