Opinion Dominion

An elderly couple have been badly injured trying to break up a fight between their dog and a goanna in north Queensland. The 72-year-o...

Of course, climate change deniers are thrilled;  but honestly, I don't think anyone sensible should ever have held high hopes that this ...

The reporting about the attractive young woman killed in Sydney by a nut a couple of days seemed odd to me from the start.    I mean, no one...

Graeme - nothing about Jews.  No sweary insults.  Or back into moderation we go.

That recent explosion in Russia is believed to have been caused by work on a nuclear powered missile: The explosion happened on a militar...

This: is the very nice, comfortable and acoustically great theatre at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, where my wife and I saw...

Religions are free to develop their own views on the matter of abortion, and their members make their own decisions whether to follow or ign...

The latest legislative moves to decriminalise abortion in an Australian state have sent the conservatives of Catallaxy over the edge, with o...

I see on Axios that the UK speaker says he won't let Johnson suspend parliament as a way of avoiding it passing an extension to the Bre...

This discussion of whether England is about to face a constitutional crisis [or should that be - a "no constitution crisis":)]reg...

That line from Crimes and Misdemeanors often comes to mind when trying to work out why some TV shows or movies work for me, and others don&#...

A nicely explained economics piece here at NPR. Fast-forward to 2013, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, fresh from his stint a...

A surprising benefit of Netflix has been watching foreign language series and seeing how good they can be - for example, the terrifically en...

I'm sorry, but I had to Google the topic of how I got notified of a comment awaiting moderation.  (I thought I might get an email, but n...

I watched Four Corners on Boris Johnson last night, and thought it was pretty soft on him.  There was lots of generic talk about criticisms ...

Not exactly a topic I spend much time thinking about, but a review at the TLS notes a book which argues that, at least for the US: “Gay ...

Hey, there's a great long read (with plenty of photos) at the BBC site:   The mystery of screaming schoolgirls in Malaysia. Apparently...

Saw The Invitation this weekend - the 2015 movie which I had wanted to watch for a while but my son resisted during our usual Saturday even...

Once again I find myself getting annoyed with the problems of both sides of an argument - this time on the matter of video games and connect...