Opinion Dominion

Well, as if you didn't know they live in their own little, intensely unhappy, bubble world, I've just noticed that many of the self ...

I haven't posted anything specifically about climate change news for some time. I have been saving some links and intend to make a cli...

It was, I suppose, kind of refreshing to have Channel 7 hosts bag their own broadcast as soon it finished.  I guess seeing they were standin...

An article at The Guardian talks about the increasing number of disastrous sinkholes appearing in Rome - associated, it seems, with increas...

According to News Corp, Australia's netball team losing to England means this: As the Commonwealth Games near an end, may I also r...

Yesterday we ate at a Yum Cha restaurant in a (I think) Vietnamese run restaurant.  It was very nice (although I have had better chicken fee...

Watched Zero Dark Thirty , the Kathryn Bigelow directed movie about the hunting down of Osama Bin Laden, last night.  This discussion may co...

So, I'm in the somewhat painful process of trying to work out a holiday, and found this photo, from a Mercure Hotel room... ...and I...

The issue:  the Commonwealth Games is making me feel all warm and gooey towards sports.  This is very much out of character.  I guess I fe...

Oh dear.  I was criticising Chris Berg earlier this week for writing vapid papers on blockchain, now he's contributing a vapid, self ser...

Newt Gingrich on Fox and Friends, about the Cohen FBI raids: We're supposed to have the rule of law. It ain't the rule of law whe...

...I make the following comments: *  we all know he's an empty shell with no consistent principles, able to be influenced by the last ...

Interesting article up at The Atlantic: Converting to Buddhism as a Form of Political Protest  Low-caste Indians are leaving Hinduism en...

China and clean air don't exactly go hand in hand, and it's reflected in lung health : Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD...

Just noticed this on Twitter (the bit in red is the main part, but the tweet above that is relevant too):

There's much of interest in John Gray's piece at TLS on what he calls hyper-liberalism. Just one part, which I will extract here,...

So, maybe the Chinese want a military base on Vanuatu? Well, instead of complaining about it , we've got lots of Northern land not bei...

Readers may, or may not, have noticed that despite it having an increasing amount of publicity in the last year or two, I've never menti...

I liked John Quiggin's latest post about the free market economists in the US who have capitulated to Trumpism.   His final paragraph: ...

I see the NYT has a story about an increase in a painful vomiting syndrome caused by heavy cannabis use: “After marijuana was legalized...