May 26, 2017

Horse 2278 - Standardise The Stade. Νενικήκαμεν!

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One of the problems that always crops up when reading any ancient document is that nobody can agree on how far away anything is. Unlike toda...
May 25, 2017

Horse 2277 - Liverpool Makes Sydney FC See Red And Feel Blue

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Liverpool 3 def Sydney FC 0 What do you get when you cross the A-League champions with club that finished fourth in the English Premier L...
May 24, 2017

Horse 2276 - Manifestos Are Pointless, So Let's Have A Manifesto

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With the Labour Party's manifesto leaking early, the Tories' manifesto being as dull as dishwater, the Lib Dems' manifesto as cr...
May 23, 2017

Horse 2275 - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Digital Night

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Last week, Mrs Rollo and I went to Port Stephens to do not very much, and I have to say that it was absolutely glorious. Port Stephens isn...
May 20, 2017

Horse 2274 - Election 2017: A Result Too Easy To Predict

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I have spent the last few hours busily plugging numbers into various swing calculators with the results of current polling for the upcoming ...
May 19, 2017

Horse 2273 - Christians And Arms: Or, Trying To Make 23 Greek Words Say More Than They Do

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There is an incident described in all four gospels, which speaks of the moment when Judas comes with the servants of the chief priests of th...
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May 18, 2017

Horse 2272 - The Minister On The Bus Goes Cut, Cut; Cut

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The bus drivers of the Tempe, Burwood, Randwick and other southern Sydney bus depots have gone on strike for 24 hours today because the NSW ...
May 11, 2017

Horse 2271 - What A Bunch Of Bankers We Are

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There is a strange sort of hypocrisy in the world and it is most evident in commercial media and especially among rich people. One of the po...
May 10, 2017

Horse 2270 - Budget 2017: The Morrisoning

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When the parliament sits with a slightly different set of protocols, which is what happened last night, when you have one speaker who is abl...
May 06, 2017

Horse 2269 - Sydney FC v Melbourne Victory: The Stupidity of the A-League Finals Series

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Please tell me why the Grand Final tomorrow is a thing. I have never understood why in Australia, after you play a season which lasts fo...
May 04, 2017

Horse 2268 - Blackpool v Leyton Orient: It Isn't Football

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This weekend, Blackpool FC will play its final game of the season against the absolutely dead last team on the league ladder, Leyton Orient....
May 03, 2017

Horse 2267 - Dare To Think The Unthinkable: PM Barnaby Joyce

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"I don't know if Liberal governments always do a good job. I don't know if Labor governments always do a bad job. I do know tha...
May 01, 2017

Horse 2266 - No FIFA, You Don't Get To Crow About This

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In a week that saw FIFA facing legal action over bribery in US courts and further proof that the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World...
April 29, 2017

Horse 2265 - The United States of Melania

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https://www.indy100.com/article/melania-trump-birthday-card-39-stars-american-flag-conspiracy- update-7704736 The flag of the US, in its cu...
April 28, 2017

Horse 2264 - Tout Le Monde à bord, Le Train Fou!

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1812, 1848, 1870, 1914, 1939... What comes next in the sequence of numbers? I don't know enough to work through all the reiterative ca...
April 24, 2017

Horse 2263 - Have I Heard S-Town Yet?

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In the grand tradition of Betteridge's Rule Of Headlines, the answer to that question is "No". No, I have not heard S-Town and...