Opinion Dominion

Australia author Helen Garner, talking about watching a book of hers turned into a play : In Belvoir’s adaptation, Helen is portrayed by sta...

America media organisations seem reluctant to re-visit the question of why Trump wants Iran to have a nuclear deal again after quashing the ...

 I watched it live, on and off, because I thought there was always a chance it could go spectacularly wrong - perhaps a rogue Army (or audie...

The week's been a "great" one for the rapidly approaching end of American democracy - soon to be topped off with a military pa...

The comments after this tell me that it's "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night".   A deuce being a classic hot...

A video by Sabine Hossenfelder this morning reminded me of this story: When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest ...

Inspired by this story in The Guardian last week: In Thailand, where mysticism thrives, AI fortune telling finds fertile ground A growing nu...

 It's funny, but even as spectator sport, I'm kind of underwhelmed by the Trump/Musk fight. They both lie and make BS statements con...

Further to my recent post lamenting the state of modern novels, I stumbled across this today , from the Wall Street Journal: “A Court of Th...

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain an introduced parasite capable of infecting humans, according ...

An article at the Spectator (which is partly behind a paywall) opens this way: Twenty years on from its spectacular revival it looks like D...

I've been somewhat puzzled over the last couple of (no, actually, several) years as to the commentary coming from some physicists/scienc...

It has occurred to me in recent years that, sometimes, novels with which you were not so impressed as a younger man can contain scenes that ...

Following the brief trip to Indonesia (mainly Yogyakarta), I've been watching some Youtube content about other parts of Indonesia.   I a...

My "vegan curious" status continues - although I still swear I will never give up eggs, cheese or crustaceans.   For a long time I...

 

This made me laugh on the weekend: Nick Minchin, as far as I know, has never changed his mind on his climate change skepticism, which is eff...