Opinion Dominion

A quick review of Ant-man and the Wasp: *  Perhaps not quite as wittily enjoyable as the first Ant-man , but fun enough, and certainly amu...

The other night, I tried the first episode of The Frankenstein Chronicles on Netflix (it was OK, but after the lush, expensive looks of Bab...

Everything has to be seen through the prism of culture wars, if you're an idiot with his own Sky News slot to fill: The same high ...

A pretty good article (by way of a book review) of the dubious idea of a Universal Basic Income is at Slate.   Here are a few paragraphs: ...

On the weekend, I was looking for a white, firmer fleshed fish to cook.  Fresh Australian caught fish has become ridiculously expensive.  Ev...

I'm feeling like there's little blogworthy news today:  sure, Brexit is blowing up (see David Frum's pretty good article );  the...

So, some guy writing in the Washington Post complains that he thinks that the latest series of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee shows that ...

Went and watched Incredibles 2 yesterday. I'm not sure if I can review it fairly - even though it was a midday screening, I felt unus...

Nearly a year ago , I posted about the regularity of record summer rainfalls in Japan causing death and destruction.  This year's reco...

From the London Review of Books, a review of this :  The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Me...

I'm not entirely sure whether there is much to be gained from the study of a human sacrificing society's moral philosophy, but this ...

Here's a reaction at Catallaxy to the news that a judge with Army Reserve experience has been investigating SAS members about some long ...

Damn.  Isn't it annoying when you get to a paywalled article once via someone's Tweet, but find you can't a second time, even on...

Over at the TLS, yet another summary of what Nietzsche was on about. I like to read these to reinforce my continual surprise as to why peo...

Last month I wrote about a chat I had with an Australian who had some first hand knowledge of American work conditions, and how there's...

Lots of women on Twitter are calling this Guardian journalist's piece about being attacked by men (strangers on the street) not once, b...

Isn't it odd that anyone even thought of doing this study?   Testosterone (allegedly) makes men do this: ....testosterone, the male se...

I finally got around to looking up the details behind the recent headline about some town in Oman recording a record high minimum temperatur...

Wow.   I wonder how many relationships might end as a result of this: Accidentally texting a photo to the wrong person...

My son and I (more at my insistence and facing his reluctance) have been ploughing through Netflix's Lost in Space.   Just one more epis...