It’s Academy Award time and the votes are in for best female black actor in a male Latino role.   Meanwhile…

On A Current Affair Magda Szubanski said it was ok for her to criticize Jenny Morrison because of the growing…

Was it Snoopy who said Being-A-Writer means never having to complete your novel? I’ve been thinking a lot about being…

The political and cultural Left claim that when it comes to the big issues they are not-playing-politics. They say it all the time. But they are currently…

So let’s talk about the poetry thing and the poet who read poetry at the inauguration. America’s National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman who recited the…

Contrary to the aphorism and what you’re seeing in America, things don’t fall apart, the centre nearly always holds.   Despite what you read democracy…

Dr Jill wants to be Dr Phil, that is the question: whether you are a wanker for calling yourself a Doctor when you’re…

Forget bonk ban. The real sex hang-ups — or more accurately — sexuality hang-ups seem to be from progressive types…

I have written before about Hot for Teacher.  The Van Halen guitar rock megahit was a touchstone for cultural norms…

Just for the record because everything is on the record: I doubt I could ever vote for Donald Trump.   My…

The endgame isn’t Donald Trump. With the Democratic Convention coronation complete and campaigning underway, It’s Biden-Harris; America’s Seinfeld ticket, a…

The Orange Man is cheating.  He’s Teleprompter Trump but we want Rally Trump crazy that will play badly on middle…

CNN is saying the Biden speech proves he isn’t an old man, even though anyone with elderly parents would recognize…

I was with the best minds of my generation – chartered accountants, real estate agents, Instagram influencers living off the…

The ideological closed shop that is Australia’s creative classes isn’t really a secret even if the artists themselves insist on…

Somewhere in a Melbourne suburban street near you, someone in an orange Hi-Vis vest is polishing a lamppost with disinfectant…

There is no Trump World. Nations are not the sum of their political parts.  The personal is political is not…

Beaming Boris attends the birth of his son showing the political power of looking healthy.   Juxtapose COVID Boris in intensive care,…

Pandemic Poetry   On isolation How the hell do you spell pendemic anyway? Maybe I should use a thesaurus, no that…

Welcome to Socialism World, where everything is paid for. ‘Yeah, nah’, as we say here in the People’s Republic of…

Given the choice between an old socialist white woman who used to do appearances on Dr Phil and an old…