Walter Marsh

1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Walter Marsh

   Goodbye, Colin from Accounts: how TV’s loveliest comedy stuck the landing (opens the original)

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   For a show that started with a screech of car brakes and a wounded dog, Brammall and Dyer steer the finale home as if rolling comfortably down a familiar road The streaming age has no shortage of will-they-won’t-they romances – the good, the bad, the cosy, the smutty, the made-for-the-algorithm. How did Colin from Accounts manage to rise above the tropes? How, in just a few years, has Patrick Brammall’s overseas profile gone from a solid but largely ignored cop comedy, to getting headhunte

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2. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Walter Marsh

   Malcolm Knox: ‘Trump’s name will turn to dust, just as every other dictator’s name has’ (opens the original)

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   It may sound strange: satirical novels set in Stalin’s Soviet empire, by an Australian journalist, about Trump’s America. But Knox’s darkly hilarious books have arrived when global politics so often feel like a farce Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads When we think of great Russian storytellers, a few familiar names come to mind: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov. In his two most recent novels, the Australian writer Malcolm Knox nominates two more compelling contenders

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