Opinion Dominion

Gee, Jason, you're sounding a little like a cross between Peter Thiel and Lyndon Larouche with tweets like this: OK, you and Thiel...

 I have posted about this topic before , but perhaps did not realise how high the number of deaths are from this peculiar problem: At l...

It's still not clear that the Adani mine will actually go ahead, despite the last Queensland approval going through today; but if it doe...

I've posted about this before, I think, but the NYT has another article on the popularity in China (in youth culture, at least), of de-...

I've been thinking about the number of injuries turning up everywhere from those electric hire scooters which I am tempted to try.  ( Se...

I watched Alan Jones on Anh Do's program last night, where he got to softest of receptions from the always affable Anh.  Jones revisited...

Hey, it was only last week that I was speculating that Americans seem culturally inclined to want to avoid pain at all cost - hence opting ...

Still hot in India in a very long pre-Monsoon heatwave: Nearly two-thirds of India sizzled on Tuesday under a spell of a heatwave that is...

An article at Japan Times argues that the country just has to get with the times, and stop discriminating against tattoos.   I didn't re...

From France 24: The Notre-Dame cathedral will host its first mass this weekend since a fire ravaged the Paris landmark almost two months ...

A headline on the Jakarta Post: Actually, it looks pretty nice to me:

I meant to post about this a month or so ago - the story about how face recognition and other biometric databases are expected to lead to &q...

Nature has an article (a comment piece) about the dearth of serious research into various suggestions made over the years to use the oceans...

This week's Four Corners story on the background to the Bourke Street "murders by car" case was very good.  Here's an arti...

It's annoying to note that subscribing to Prime to watch Good Omens has revealed a technical problem that seems to affect many people -...

I've posted a few times over the years regarding the question of the number of people who count as "not straight".    I took ...

I'm rather sick of libertarians complaining about the policing and security law situation under the Coalition governments which they sup...

The Atlantic has a good article looking at the Dutch experience with euthanasia and it's most troubling aspect - allowing it for psychi...

I had missed that Greg Sheridan has been making a bit of a splash with his religious writings, until I read this article in The Catholic Her...