Opinion Dominion

My son got a head cold a few days ago, and dutifully went off and got Covid tested.  Came back negative.  Only lasted a few days.  I seem to...

I find it hard to believe that the people in the train were not in a bigger panic.   Very extraordinary scenes, worthy of a disaster movie: ...

I like most space things, and think a permanent lunar base would be a worthwhile endeavour. But these suborbital flights taken by billionair...

Is it just me, or are others sometimes surprised to read of how far people would travel in the days when travel was not easy?    I just read...

The ABC is currently heavily promoting a new (what I think is) light drama series "The Newsreader".  Here's the synopsis: ABC ...

No one really trusts that Michael Wolff all that much, but apparently the interviewer agreed that there are several sources to back him up o...

Even a bad foreign film can sometimes be an interesting experience due to what you learn about that country's culture.   That's pret...

A rather interesting article in the Washington Post, with the headline explaining what it's all about: Boredom’s link to mental illness...

Perhaps the single best collection of incredible flood video I have seen is this one from the BBC - although there are some other good examp...

If you are interested, he does comment more after this tweet to explain his attitude towards using "fascism".

People who carefully read this blog might recall a post last year about a young man in Brisbane who decided to provide a castration service ...

I was a bit surprised by this story on Euronews - not because it shows a bad consequence of Brexit, but more because I didn't imagine yo...

Why does Rupert Murdoch, who virtually pushed everyone else in Britain out of the way to be one of the first to get a COVID vaccine, let his...

The Washington Post has a profile of Tucker Carlson (one he did not co-operate with), and its take on him is best summarised (accurately in ...

 

So, there are a few books coming out about the Trump election loss, and WAPO has run extracts from one on of them in which we learn: Finally...

I think this is an important and well argued article by David Frum that Trump and his supporters are going down a clear fascist path, and i...

He makes good points: