Orange marching season in Northern Ireland has its climax on July 12. People leave the country to avoid riots that inevitably follow this provocative Protestant tradition. Parades organised by…
Oi,oi,oi,okay – Oui,non!
Online travel company Expedia surveyed 4500 hoteliers world-wide about the behaviour of nationalities amongst their clients. First ranked for politeness were…
Four Miles from Midnight: Blue Sky Blues
Reverse triple somersault with double pike, or volte-face as we say in diplomatic circles, was performed by so-called Environment Minister…
Guantanamo to Norfolk
Norfolk Island, pop. 2,000, is 1600 kms east of Sydney and closer to NZ – a Commonwealth territory controlling its affairs with minimal interference from Canberra. However that…
Far Right – Binary Bound
Now we all vaguely understand that computer program language is based on lots of zeroes and ones somehow alternating at amazing…
Nuclear Arms: Getting STARTed Again
Barack and Dmitry apparently had a positive bonding session in talks in Moscow this week, which may be good news for the world. The 1991…
On the Road: “Making Love? Do it longer”.
‘Revolutionary Road’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as a modern couple in the 1950s trying to break away from the conformity…
‘The Breaker’
Kit Denton’s 1973 book about the life of colonial (English born) horseman, soldier & poet, Harry ‘The Breaker’ Morant, isn’t…
Afghan Home Truths: Malalai not Malcolm
Coincidentally after his worst week in Federal Parliament doggedly pursuing the Utegate farce, Malcolm Turnbull disappeared – to surface in Afghanistan on a frontline…
Plastic Jacko?
Anatomist Gunther Von Hagens, who is renowned for embalming cadavres in polyurethane, reckons he had an agreement with Michael Jackson…
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