Opinion Dominion

It surprises even me, but I starting writing this blog just over 20 years ago - in May 2005. There's no doubt I started with some pretty...

I very much enjoyed this explanation of the important Chinese religious character the Jade Emperor from Religion for Breakfast:     I was ...

Am I alone in feeling that there is not enough public acknowledgement of the absolutely awesome success of the James Webb Space Telescope ? ...

From a New York Times review of season 3, which has just dropped:  “Squid Game” is back for what is said to be its final round, with a six-...

From the New York Times: While most Americans consider marijuana safe, new research published this week found that use of the drug is ass...

I'm rather busy with end of financial year stuff, but there's so much dubious commentary flowing around the situation in the Middle ...

I saw someone on X or Bluesky say that Netanyahu has waited 30 years to find a US President he can manipulate perfectly, and found one in Tr...

Australia author Helen Garner, talking about watching a book of hers turned into a play : In Belvoir’s adaptation, Helen is portrayed by sta...

America media organisations seem reluctant to re-visit the question of why Trump wants Iran to have a nuclear deal again after quashing the ...

 I watched it live, on and off, because I thought there was always a chance it could go spectacularly wrong - perhaps a rogue Army (or audie...

The week's been a "great" one for the rapidly approaching end of American democracy - soon to be topped off with a military pa...

The comments after this tell me that it's "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night".   A deuce being a classic hot...

A video by Sabine Hossenfelder this morning reminded me of this story: When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest ...

Inspired by this story in The Guardian last week: In Thailand, where mysticism thrives, AI fortune telling finds fertile ground A growing nu...

 It's funny, but even as spectator sport, I'm kind of underwhelmed by the Trump/Musk fight. They both lie and make BS statements con...

Further to my recent post lamenting the state of modern novels, I stumbled across this today , from the Wall Street Journal: “A Court of Th...

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain an introduced parasite capable of infecting humans, according ...

An article at the Spectator (which is partly behind a paywall) opens this way: Twenty years on from its spectacular revival it looks like D...

I've been somewhat puzzled over the last couple of (no, actually, several) years as to the commentary coming from some physicists/scienc...