I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
I received an email this afternoon advising me that the Kiss End Of The Road Tour has now been delayed from next month to August (it was originally due to occur last November). The reason for this latest postponement is Premier McGowan’s announcement that he is keeping the WA borders closed indefinitely. Thank you Premier …
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About 18 months ago, I admitted that watching The Australian edition of The Masked Singer was one of my more juvenile pleasures, and that I had speculated on whether embarrassed (rather than disgraced) former politician Sam Destyari had been the person inside the Wizard costume. The Masked Singer is one of those shows which is …
Back when AM radio was still in existence, back in the 1980s, I used to regularly listen to 3XY, the predecessor to FOX FM, particularly whilst doing my home work in high school or writing my uni essays. There was a vibe amongst the DJs which was good humoured and good natured. When they got …
We are all familiar with the childhood tale of the Emperor’s New Clothes, where the Emperor so wants to believe that he is wearing a fine new material, and his subjects are too scared to speak truth to power, that it takes a child to point out that he is naked. Hoaxes are much like …
Just finished reading a book about Rockefeller associate and eventual Standard Oil Chairman Henry Clay Folger. Whilst a lot of other industrial tycoons were putting their money into building giant palaces in New York City, or otherwise showing off their wealth in other ostentatious ways (Veblen’s phrase ‘conspicuous consumption’ was inspired by that era), Folger …
Continue reading “I love my Shakespeare, but this is over the top”
The current controversy at The Australian Open over the suppression of freedom of speech in the form of the ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ t-shirts has got me and other people thinking. Peng Shuai is only one of many possible topics which would offend the authorities in the PRC, and which they would like to keep …
Tennis Australia’s latest overreach has been to ban people at The Australian Open from wearing T-Shirts asking ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ The resulting publicity and unanimous criticism about the heavy handed action by tournament security – including claiming that they have the legal authority to permanently confiscate banners with this burning question – has backfired …
Let me start by saying that some of my best friends are Sandgropers. There is Michael who lives in Williamstown, and Jeff who lives in Niddrie, and Bill who lives in Hong Kong. What do they all have in common? They were mostly born and raised in Western Australia, but decided to make their lives …
Continue reading “Has Perth Become Barcelona (minus the Culture of course!)?”
Let me start by reminding you, Gentle Reader, that I dislike the current name for what originated as the British Empire Games. I do not think there was any good reason to change the name to Commonwealth Games, and I would be much more enthused about the whole show if it were still called the …
Continue reading “What point is there in Melbourne hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games?”
We all are familiar with the stereotype of the angry leftist would-be revolutionary who wants to line the bourgeoisie and capitalists against the wall and shoot them. Or who, in a cuter and more harmless form, simply indulges their immature views by wearing t-shirts with slogans like ‘Eat The Rich’. A lot of those are …
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