Opinion Dominion

Scots, What the Heck? - NYTimes.com Here's Paul Krugman warning the Scots about having its own government but not its own currency.

World War I: Teenage girl Maud Butler cut hair, dressed as soldier and stowed away on troopship  If I had read a novel in which this had ha...

I was going to comment on The Economist's strangely enthusiastic investigation into prostitution, and endorsement of it as a career for...

And one other thing: quite a few people seem to have noticed on the web that Abbott seems to have had a cough or cold in interviews for...

In my post a few days ago about a book on gin, I noted an extract from the review which mentioned the fountain in the Grand Exhibition of 18...

The Australian Newspaper’s War On The Bureau of Meteorology � Graham Readfearn We know that The Australian has been conducting a War on Cli...

There's an interview with Michael Palin up at the Guardian , because of the publication of the 3rd volume of his diaries.   From comment...

Tonight's recipe - Spiced Shepherd's Pie with Pumpkin - found here,  was nice. The spice combination was not overpowering but went...

Readers may rightly note that I'm feeling particularly down on Saudi Arabia at the moment, and John Birmingham in the Sydney Morning Her...

I was Googling around looking for photos of the shopping mall at the Riyadh Kingdom Centre which featured in a post a couple of days ago [ch...

From the Australian Financial Review today : The Abbott government has broken more key promises than it has kept during the Coalition’s fi...

First Dog on the Moon on ... hierarchies of oppression - cartoon | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Report card: strong ambassador, dud budget - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Barrie Cassidy on Tony Abbott today: Whethe...

A couple of months back, I posted some extracts from a review of a biography of Beethoven about his often unhappy life. There's anothe...

It's a James Ashby interview that looks like it will shed further light on who in the Liberals helped him bring his case, and who lie...

These Two Guys Studied Their Feces for a Year - The Atlantic (Actually, it's quite an interesting science story about gut biome again.)  

In what's probably just another bit of Slate click baiting, this article with the heading Let’s Stop Idealizing the Home-Cooked Family D...

I've been watching most of Working Dog's new show Utopia on the ABC, and I have to say it has grown on me. As a satire of how the ...

Seeing Adam Creighton is against an increase in compulsory superannuation, I now feel pretty confident that some increase was in fact warran...

Seven years ago I noted how annoying I found former CNN war correspondent Michael Ware, an Australian given to talking in perpetual hyperve...