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The BBC reports: Almost 100,000 mink at a farm in north-eastern Spain are to be culled after many of them tested positive for coronavir...

It's a generalisation, I know, but based on the evidence of a poem read out on Radio National breakfast this morning (apparently, this i...

Honest to God, we're going to have to wait another 2,000 years before we see a stupider, more offensively facile Presidency: It...

I think that the best column I have read on the (always verging on the tedious) topic of "cancel culture" is by Ross Douthat.   It...

Axios reminds us that today is the 75th anniversary of the explosion of the first atomic bomb (not Hiroshima, but the Trinity test). Firs...

This book by Tim, published by Right wing vanity press outlet Connor Court, will be the most vapid book of political thought since Pauline H...

As one thought leads to another, and I've been reading about rubber lately, I've been wondering this:   why did Goodyear, who invent...

I'm been meaning to say this out loud for some time:  I reckon clothes washing and outdoor drying of same is the most satisfying househo...

So, Trump has given a widely panned campaign speech from the White House (apparently supposed to be about China, but more complaining about ...

Keeping on today's Asian theme, I noticed the Singaporean election result last week gave the PAP (should be PGP - Permanent Governing Pa...

I think it was obvious from years of watching Mythbusters that he must have been a likeable guy in real life, and because of that (as well a...

That's a very huffy look from Trump while taking questions today: Incidentally, you can see where he got this bit of "whatabout...

Seeing I am in the mood for South East Asian talk, I watched this recent document from Germany on a very polluted river in Indonesia: Mo...

Yesterday's story about Top Glove in Malaysia making lots of money from the heightened demand for medical rubber gloves made me realise ...

*  So even the most corrupt Attorney General we've seen in a lifetime thought Trump's commutation of Stone would be corrupt?    Mitt...

So, Jazz Shaw at Hot Air thinks that it's Democrats who are fearful of Biden debating Trump: It’s a highly uncomfortable subject for D...

And surely their [White House press secretaries] salary is not high enough for this kind of credibility debasement?:

A good detailed piece in New York Magazine on the American failure to control COVID 19. The only bit I am annoyed with is this: With th...

Michael Tobis, who has always been worth reading on climate change, has a detailed assessment at Real Climate of the highly dubious "f...