Surprising factoids seem popular, so here’s anothery in our new series, as Andrew Blake, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University,…
Holy Smokes!
Today we’re inaugurating an occasional showcasing, without commentary, of a randomly interesting and/or surprising new factoid, which must be shared.…
Monarchy Must Go
The demise of our previous monarch has unleashed a veritable orgy of mass outpourings of grief, veneration and nostalgia. Media…
CBD: Central But Dead
The Emerald City aka Sydney lost its allure for office workers when the pandemic gave them a choice to work…
Stasi Stealth
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope is not literature, but it makes a convincing…
ScoMo ScumBag
Sorry folks, for the vulgar epithet, but scumbag is as scumbag does. Our erstwhile PM Scotty Morrison literally knows no…
Qantas Qandary
Breaking News: Qantas to Phase out Passengers in Plan to Improve Service (PIS) In a new strategy that it says…
Ukraine Unity
Every conversation in Germany and France, during a recent sojourn, included discussion of the Ukraine war, conveying a palpable feeling…
Berlin & Beyond
Kookynie may be a thriving hub of cosmopolitan life, but after two years of pandemic confinement your International Affairs correspondent…
Putin? PUTAIN!*
Further to Once Upon a Time in Russia and its portrayal of three of the original oligarchs, my new recommendation…
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