Opinion Dominion

As it happens, it occurred to me just a day or two ago to check whether Paul Johnson was still alive, and saw that he was.   (Seems he might...

This video has been out for a couple of weeks, about a couple of well know American Youtubers tasting the product of the Singaporean company...

It seems I have to humble brag, again, but there's an article up at The Guardian about the technical issues with the troubled Sun Cable...

There's a very interesting personal take on Cardinal George Pell by John Allen , a journalist at the Catholic website Crux. It's har...

As noted in The Guardian: The world’s oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, demonstrating the profound and pervasive changes that ...

Gee, a lengthy article at the Washington Post about the successful career of Matt Yglesias. He's OK, I think, and I do follow him on Twi...

It was barely 6 months ago that I expressed surprise that the very ambitious plan to send electricity from Australia to Singapore via under...

So, with Cardinal George Pell dying suddenly, as well as Pope Benedict, it seems that the ageing doctrinal/social conservatives are being pu...

This tweet today:  

Harry's recent disclosure of apparent mediumship type messaging from his late Mum reminded me that I had never mentioned a study recentl...

*  It's pretty depressing reading about the wild success of Covid anti-vax misinformation swirling around the internet.   This thread on...

We just seem to keep hearing news stories about how short bursts of exercise are surprisingly effective.  Here's the latest one, in the ...

I see that the currently dysfunctional Twitter is still getting some interesting tweets.  This one, for example: The comments following incl...

Hey it's my blog and I'll get to bleat about this again.   We recently subscribed to Binge, which seems to have a surprisingly large...

Molly Jong-Fast gives a succinct and accurate explanation of what the Republican party has become: Republicans created a cult of personalit...

Here's a somewhat amusing column by a writer who inadvertently started a conspiracy idea about K-pop, and has regretted it ever since: ...

For all of the complaint and infighting about how many Western countries responded to Covid, can we at least agree that China has dealt with...

 I have noticed this graph, which appeared in Financial Times a few days ago, attracting a lot of comment on Twitter: I think I saw someone ...

I'm not saying I'm ready to jump on a plane to China yet, or that I wouldn't be a tad nervous about the intense State surveillan...

Interesting article at NPR about how some yoga teachers find it easy to move into Qanon conspiracy belief. It starts: QAnon — the baseless ...