Opinion Dominion

A bag of ‘fat, chemicals – and hepatitis’: why Britain has stopped eating sausages | Life and style | The Guardian Look, it's the Guard...

Does anyone but the IPA want to hoist the Union Jack over our history again? | Jason Wilson | Comment is free | The Guardian I started a p...

Let's see.   Jeremy Clarkson is still making high school boy sniggers about "fudge" and anal sex;  Bronwyn's hair hasn'...

As a person who's been complaining for years about the the American Right's move away from common sense and evidence based policy in...

Michael J Fox on Back to the Future fans: ‘The most genuine people I’ve met’ | Film | The Guardian

Update:  I've realised that what this needs is a stream of smoke coming out of the back of her as she returns to land. If only I did...

Voters are adults and don't need a nanny state to make choices for them The Senator who will be chairing a self promoting enquiry on m...

Jack Black, the royally endorsed Rat Catcher of Victorian England, had a mention in this blog before .  (Back in 2007!) But here's ano...

Common drugs can affect our minds and morals – but should we be worried about it? Some interesting stuff mentioned in this article, and I s...

How Today's Anti-Vaccination Movement Traces Back to Victorian England - The Atlantic Well, who else didn't know there was an anti-...

I see that Bronwyn Bishop's $5000 helicopter flight to save a mere 50 minute drive down the freeway to a fundraiser is enough to cause J...

...about negative gearing and its effect on the property and rental market. Apparently, it was a bit of a myth that the Labor experiment ...

The question of whether or not Pope Francis would partake of coca leaves ( he didn't, apparently ) led to the Mindhacks blog noting tha...

Canada's Conservatives may face unexpected hazard as economy cools | Reuters Well, seems to me Canada may be displaying the weakness o...

There was a great Foreign Correspondent last night set on the Greek island of Kos, inconveniently close to Turkey and the scene of many, ma...

Peak body lashes Abbott government: Our business interests in Indonesia harmed by bad diplomacy : Australia's "megaphone" dipl...

Do we Always Practice What we Preach? Real Vampires’ Fears of Coming out of the Coffin to Social Workers and Helping Professionals | Critica...

Really, as her children asked , why did Australian Story bother with a two parter on Gina Rinehart, as it seemed to add nothing to what we d...