On politicians and the age of cruelty
Last night for bedtime reading I was flicking through the philosopher Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. Seneca was born in Roman Spain about the same […]
Last night for bedtime reading I was flicking through the philosopher Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. Seneca was born in Roman Spain about the same […]
4,600 posts, 13 million hits, over 150,000 comments. In their raw nakedness these figures probably don’t mean a lot to the person reading them. To […]
The allegations that Russia may have interfered with the recent US election has stung Republicans into springing to the defence of their ‘new best friend’ […]
By Jennifer Meyer-Smith It’s now 10pm and there’s only two hours left of 2016. Thank goodness for that! At midnight, it will be 2017 and […]
By Tracie Aylmer At one point in our understanding and knowledge of our way of life, it should have been understood that prison was meant […]
By Hugh Harris By now, the elves are wrapping the toys. The reindeers are running test flights. Santa is busy double-checking Xmas lists, and plotting […]
Here we are already. Christmas is but one day away. For sure it was only yesterday that we had the last one! Every year it […]
By Kyran O’Dwyer Based on his ability to amass wealth, he would be judged by many to be successful. His most recent parliamentary declaration suggests […]
By Noah Wilderbeest The new Kapos like chocolate cake, Krispy-Kreem doughnuts, crystal therapy healing, Reiki sessions and Tarot readings. The new kapos take all friggin’ manner of […]
By R D Wood In today’s public discourse education is often instrumentalised. That is to say, many of the debates see it as an investment […]
I wear makeup. Sometimes. Other times I don’t. I have no passionate desire to rise at 4 am in the morning, as a friend told […]
That generation – the one populated with a surplus, it seems, of angry, aging, white men attempting to cling to a sense of long-past-its-use-by-date supremacy. Even […]
I wonder how Jamie Briggs is feeling right now. Don’t get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the guy. He sounded like a bit […]
By Noah Wilderbeest The new Ken Loach film, I, Daniel Blake will find resonance with anyone who has dealt with Centrelink over the past two […]
By Niall McLaren In a fairly torrid article, Robyn Dunphy asked “Is there a drug shortage we don’t know about?… This is a rich western […]
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