Congratulations, Mr Baldrick!  Something of a triumph, I think -- you must be the first person ever to spell 'Christmas' without get...

It's kind of "refreshing" (is that the word? maybe "fulsome"?) to see that the Abbott Government has decided to take...

Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year if you want to be more inclusive was officially yesterday. It is with much celebration that we proclaim T...

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3817901.htm Well I think that you'll have to take - we all have to take the rough with the smoot...

From my little bench under a tree in the town square, I'm quietly eating a sandwich and reading a very hefty tome by Charles Dickens. It...

In economics there's a thing called the "denomination effect" and that's where there is a greater preference for people to...

Xerxes the Great was the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire. At the height of his reign, he ruled over and empire extending as far east as...

One of the questions which has been flying about the media and in particular Auto Action, is the question of what the likely replacements wi...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-24/cooks-cottage-anti-australia-day-graffiti/5216816 Meanwhile an eight-kilometre stretch of foreshore a...

...according to Jeremy Clarkson. It's kind of known by some of our more regular clients that I quite like reading about motor cars; I ...

Before I go any further I should like to point out that I spent most of last night carefully considering my first words for this edition of ...

After an appalling Ashes five-nil whitewash and a one day series which has also already been lost, coach Andy Flower might very well be look...

WARNING: MATHS AHEAD!** Firstly, something really weird to get your brain ticking over: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 1...

I open this post with a great spot of naval gazing; looking at two very different comments that arrived recently: you're not a real jo...

The NSW State Cabinet is meeting today to discuss ways to try and lessen so-called "alcohol fuelled violence". Admittedly media ou...

I live on a house on Pedant Corner; overlooking Persnickety Lane. From here I can look out the window and notice all sorts of things that th...

- Woodcut of "The Googol Company" offices, c.1718 On the 19th of January 1714, in the coffee house of Peter Gresham, fourte...

The county properly known as Devon (not Devonshire) is on what is most properly called "the pointy bit" on the southwest of Brita...

http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/13/corvette-racing-officially-reveals-c7-r-race-livery/ Corvette Racing has, officially, taken...

“Never go to war with a noun. You will always lose.” - John Green http://www.news.com.au/national/tony-abbott-compares-stopping-asylumsee...