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I was pleased to hear of the recent demise of Newsweek as a print magazine. Newsweek was very much liberal in its politics, as is illust...

Here's a link to a young man who says that he needs feminism. He could be a contender for the face of unmanliness. My eyes rolled espec...

Hidenori Sakanaka is an old man and a revolutionary. He wants the Japan that is to be no more. His solution to Japan's low fertility rat...

Sorry for the lack or recent posting, work commitments are to blame. I'll start posting on the weekend again, but in the meantime I thou...

English columnist Esther Rantzen watched a TV documentary which followed the work of the emergency services and was shocked by the behaviou...

First it was the American journalist Lara Logan who was violently assaulted covering a demonstration in Egypt's Tahrir Square. Then the ...

A reader has alerted me to the following poster. It seems to have been produced by the European Social Forum, a movement made up of various ...

Early this month the German far left demonstrated in several cities. In Munich about 300 demonstrators marched; what was most interesting we...

The Macquarie Dictionary is supposed to set the standard for Australian English. Those responsible for the dictionary have decided to alter ...

Earlier this year writer Rachel Cusk published a book about the break up of her marriage. The bare details of the marriage are as follows....

The foundation stone of Gloucester Cathedral was laid in the eleventh century. It's an ancient and beautiful piece of architecture:  ...

Australian politics hit yet another low point this week. The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, struggling in the polls, decided to play the sex...

Well, my clever readers figured it out. The mystery building I posted a photo of is a church in Austria commonly called the Wotruba Church a...

Here's a reader quiz. Look at the pictures of the building below and guess what the building is, i.e. what the building is used for. ...

You might remember that I opened my recent post on Sandra Tsing Loh with a confession that I didn't know how to process her latest arti...