Opinion Dominion

Another link from Arts & Letters - this time to quite a long review of a biography of the woman who became the Churchills' war time ...

Via Arts & Letters Daily, a short article from the US edition of the Spectator talks about the peculiar things we know about Mozart and...

Some interesting talk here of the size of lava tubes on the Moon and Mars, and their likely safety for a base: The international journal ...

Despite my reservations about Swan, it should go without saying that Trump's interview with him was a terrible performance highlighting ...

Yeah, I saw the viral video of "Uncle Roger" watching the fried rice video and was amused. I see that this character by Malaysia...

This is not going to be a popular take on the matter, but nevertheless.... I watched all of the Jonathan Swan interview with Trump on Yout...

I must be a bit weird,  because I usually enjoy airline food.  Perhaps it's because I find flying per se a wondrous thing, and the...

The Right white commentators are high five-ing themselves over leaked footage showing more of George Floyd being arrested and acting as if h...

Peter Navarro tries to explain: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Monday that the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok poses ...

Despite my feeling that economics is having something of a crisis in understanding what is happening in the world at the moment,  I still se...

....Graeme is going on and on about how upset he is that I am have stopped letting his pro-HCQ and other "how to avoid COVID-19" n...

If I was one to use the meme, I would be saying this quote has me reaching for my revolver: In her foundational 1977 essay, “Poetry Is N...

Look, we know he has to bloviate for a living, but I still find it remarkable that he would write in defence of a demon seed believing docto...

France 24 notes: Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday and ...

I have seen a couple of recent articles about the dangerous rise of Qanon within Republican circles.  There's one in The Guardian , and ...

Update:    And in an article we can be safely assume Adam would not read, or at least, let influence him, Science magazine notes the vexe...

Banning Tik Tok seems a pretty ludicrous idea to me;  so naturally it's appealling to the Orange One.  Nevermind:

While the world frets (rightly) about COVID-19, terrible temperature records are being set: Record high temperatures have been plaguin...

Last weekend, I re-watched Goodfellas on Netflix for the first time since I saw it in the cinema, waaay back in 1990. To be honest, not m...