Jeff Bezos of Amazon is the world’s richest man, with a personal fortune of about US$120 billion. Amazon avoided about…
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While you’re ruminating on the febrile Australian attachment to the English monarchy, have a think about that other cringeworthy relic…
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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…
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