Opinion Dominion

Disunity is meant to be death in politics, and surely the IPA's proposed campaign against the Coalition's superannuation changes is ...

John Quiggin has posted quotes from Jennifer Rubin (herself a conservative) writing at the Washington Post about the need for conservative...

Thai university students caught using spy cameras, smartwatches to cheat on medicine exam Three students used glasses with wireless came...

Had a very pleasant meeting last evening with a long term blog reader.  This is only the second reader (of the variety who only knows of me ...

Transvestite Vicar Ghost in Interwar England - Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog Beachcombing tells the tale of a night time cross d...

In April, Art Laffer was claiming : “You know, [Trump] wants to cut tax rates, Poppy. He does not want to cut taxes. He wants to cut tax ...

How bad will the fires in Fort McMurray hit the economy? Interesting report in Macleans notes this: There is also the risk no one wants...

Sky Magic Live at Mt.Fuji : Drone Ballet Show by MicroAd, Inc. from Sky Magic on Vimeo .

From a review of new book about Nietzsche (and the reviewer, incidentally, in other parts of the review, is no anti-Nietzsche critic): In...

Donald Trump just threatened to cause an unprecedented global financial crisis - Vox Scott Adams presumably thinks that things like this do...

I see Bernard Keane and Crikey are continuing the case against company tax cuts leading to increased investment. Interesting.

That was my reaction at watching Fury Road last night. Look, post apocalypse movies are not generally my thing; nor are movies based on c...

So, something interesting happens to weed after it’s legal - The Washington Post In case you don't want to click - it becomes cheaper....

First, there's a review of a book about the diary of a key Nazi figure who I can't say I recall hearing about before.  (No explanat...

Andrew Sullivan’s Blind Spot | City Journal The subheading from this article: Is America “ripe for tyranny?” Blame Barack Obama. The n...

I see that Jason Soon has tweeted to a WAPO article giving publicity to the Scott Adams argument that Trump will win "in a landslide...

I see on Twitter and around the place that younger than me, lefty sort of people find the ABC's iView comedy "The Katering Show...

Our personal skin microbiome is surprisingly stable I guess I am not surprised.  It probably explains why unfortunate people who have a ski...

I don't normally pay attention to the Budget Reply, but the status of this one as effectively the first major election campaign speech m...

Adam Creighton has another one of his peculiar columns up where the headline position doesn't seem all that well supported by the detai...