Opinion Dominion

As much as I love the ABC, I have to say that they still do one thing pretty badly - breakfast news television. I've tried watching it...

I've done a lot of Tim Wilson posts over the years, pointing out his remarkable fondness for...himself.    So:

You know the big picture - the Trump Right has already lost the culture war and the youth vote and barely won the Presidency by virtue of wh...

There was a recent article at The Conversation about the active volcano field that runs across Victoria and South Australia.   ("Activ...

Seriously, Andrew Bolt thinks this?: For three weeks the ABC obsessively pushed fake news: claims that the federal Liberals had a cultu...

BBC Culture has a sympathetic story on the rise of the "acid house" clubbing scene in London in the 1990's:  " The 30-yea...

Hey, it was my birthday a couple of days ago, and now I see that it was apparently David Roberts' birthday yesterday.   It's a bit f...

From WAPO:   House Republicans bracing for November's midterm elections unveiled a second round of tax cuts on Monday that could add ...

I read this in the AFR yesterday.    Remarkable: The exchange is one of several detailed in the book showing how many of Mr Trump's n...

With all of the attention on the American East coast, it's easily overlooked that a big typhoon is off the Philippines too: Superstorm...

Well, it's certainly not helping with the remarkable understaffing of the NHS : The NHS was short of 41,722 nurses – 11.8% of the en...

English philosopher John Gray has got a mention here a couple of times over the years, including recently where I noted an "interesting...

I've been thinking lately that this year seems to be a pretty underwhelming one as far as enjoyable movies go. It's not that I str...

As I said last week, I know little about Imre except that he presumably used to be pals with Tim Blair. Given Imre's dislike of the ta...

Andrew Bolt, who doesn't spend much time critiquing Trump (because that's what culture warriors do - spend all their time on How Bad...