Opinion Dominion

1.  The Institute of Family Studies confirms that, yeah, young people like to say they are bi.   But, funnily enough, they still prefer to h...

There's a biographical article about Noel Coward up at the BBC .   I knew little of his background, and did not realise how incredibly s...

Axios ran an article about a Gallup poll which asked people in all sort of countries whether they thought their city or area was a "go...

Maybe I re-arrange these later...

I was ahead of the curve on this one.   This article up at the BCC shows that some scepticism has finally entered the commentary on the pote...

Yes, I would say this is worthwhile research: Cory Russo, the chief death investigator in Utah, is used to asking strangers questions at th...

I can't be the only person who has said that, about this: Ben Roberts-Smith VC, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, has lost a d...

I was speaking to some friends on the weekend who will going to Europe later this year, using Airbnb accommodation.   I said I would not do ...

Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI Please, continue to put me in the "not at all convinced" column. I mean, this...

I  noted last week that I cooked with Sichuan (or Szechuan) pepper for the first time, and I liked the result. I didn't mention, though,...

Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexual assault , said on Tuesday she had defected to Russia. “I’m still...

In the news :  Vietnam is turning off street lights and manufacturers are switching operations to off-peak hours to keep the national power...

Last weekend was pretty irritating:  our main refrigerator died, after lingering with what seemed to be decreasing cooling for quite a while...

I finally watched the remake of All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix on the weekend.  I hadn't read any reviews, except I assumed ...

*  The late Tina Turner:  pop music not being all that important to me, it's not like she was a performer I would ever have bothered see...

 

It seems that research on the benefit of taking supplementary vitamins (at least if you are a person with a reasonable diet and no obvious c...

Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters did a concert in Germany a few days ago , which featured this: Roger Waters projected Anne Frank’s nam...

Not sure that I should highlight this, given I don't independently know any details of her life struggles, but surely I can't be the...

This looks and sounds nice to me: It's a recipe from the Washington Post.  I don't subscribe to the much more famous recipe section ...