Opinion Dominion

I've been writing things here for so many years now that I think I start feeling a little, uh,aimless/lacking purpose?, if I don't u...

There seems to be a run of bad luck going on in my family at the moment. Last week, our dog's fondness for certain fertiliser in pots se...

So, the news has even reached the New York Times :  Japan has had a year of many bear attacks, many fatal: Akita Prefecture, home to about 8...

Henry Reynolds is still writing books?   He must be getting on - it seems a couple of decades since he first gained a lot of attention for h...

The article in Fortune it references paints a bleak picture indeed of the state of the farming sector in the US, struggling under Trump...

One of the few benefits of turning 65 is that the Australian government will pay for anyone to get the shingles vaccine.  I got it at the lo...

Quite a good article to be found here at Nature about the fitness influencer craze for recommending super high protein intake.  Some bits: ...

This tweet is from David French, making the point that always comes to my mind when Trump and MAGA hysterics run around claiming America had...

In the New York Times: Despite a decade of social transformation in Saudi Arabia, unwed pregnancy remains a taboo that exists in a legal gr...

After eating quite a lot yesterday, I weighed in at 89.3kg this morning.  Still 4kg down from my starting point a fortnight or so ago.  Yest...

From the New York Times:   a sympathetic take on three people who have had "relationships" with chatbots.     (Arguably, I reckon ...

David Brooks. I'm not sure that there is any other opinion writer in the main stream media who seems to have the talent of writing views...

It feels like a very long time since Crowe was in anything decent:  he seemed almost to have descended into late career Orson Welles territo...

This human interest story at the New York Times (about 5 centenarians in Japan who are still working - and happy to be doing so) is very ch...

I like dishes that combine meat and fruit, and here's another one from the Washington Post for future reference: Sounds too simple, but ...

Well, they haven't exactly been promoting it highly on their website:  and I can't even see a "gift link" to it, so I don...

The scales have been indicating the weight was still slowly climbing - I once thought 90 kg was a barrier I would settle at, but it reached ...

*  It's funny how Noah Smith told the world a few months ago that he had re-gained his libido (after many years of mysteriously having n...

I'm being facetious in the title:  but it's just that the dropping birth rate everywhere, no matter how conservative or liberal the ...

I think I commented earlier this year about the abrupt disappearance of long time conservative blogger Currency Lad, and see that (as some p...