Opinion Dominion

Long time readers would know that I agree with Roger Simon's point . Captain's Quarters ' take on the execution is fair enough...

A few weeks ago the Fairfax press , and indeed the Murdoch press , both ran with a story that that John Howard and Alexander Downer had ...

Maybe it is just that by mid-life, really hot weather starts to annoy everyone much more than it did when they were younger. Whatever the r...

Here's a list of some interesting stories from the last week: Let me do the panicking for you : If the Large Hadron Collider or an aste...

There's a short Slate piece by Hitchens about a recent trip to Iraq. Good reading, as always.

They're boxer shorts, if you can't quite tell.

I don't know if I have missed the 2006 edition yet, but David Letterman has had Darlene Love singing this song every Christmas for a dec...

It's hard to find the right word to describe this article in The Guardian about how to have a green Christmas. Seeing it's from En...

Japan's population to fall 30% by 2055, study finds The story is from the Japan Times. The longer term projection is more surprising (...

For a provocative take on the differences between the great religions, you can't get much better and more succinct than this paragraph f...

There is one thing the recent reporting about the Libyan conviction of Bulgarian nurses (and a Palestinian doctor) for infecting children ...

From the LA Times : A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intend...

A pretty funny column in the LA Times about the "war on Hanukkah". An extract: These should be good times for Hanukkah and the J...

A pretty remarkable story in The Times about how a British man wanted for murder was apparently able to leave the country by wearing the ni...

This time last year, Radio National's Science Show (run by the rather Left leaning Robyn Williams) had a show in which the risks of a ...