Before I begin this piece I have to declare that I hate The Australian. Its journalism is adequate and its writing is adequate. However The ...

Probably as long as there have been people they have been asking the question "who is the fastest?". There were running races in t...

In Horse 3179 when I wrote about every song in the world , I touched upon "I Am A Man" by Bo Diddley. I do not think that this wa...

Probably as long as there have been men (because it will become pretty obvious pretty quickly that women do not engage in this kind of halfw...

When we think about the great heroes of the world, who do we think of? Perhaps we think of some powerful warrior who fights valiantly in bat...

Anyone who was watching the coronation of King Charles III would have likely been impressed by Handel's "Zadok The Priest" whe...

I have mentioned a lot in this series of posts about one of the central planks upon which I have constructed this house. That is the idea, w...

Some mornings on the way to work when I pass through Blacktown Station, I see this billboard: This billboard at Blacktown Station, is trying...

Every day as I cross this swirling conurbation we call Sydney, forth and back through the environs which contain five millions of people, I ...

To the north of New South Wales is a strange land where everyone is trying to hurl themselves into the ocean at the first opportunity, or li...

When I were a wee lad in school, the thing that was all the rage was the idea that kids needed "self-esteem". I remember a lot of ...

With reference to the current Stage 3 Tax cuts which the Albanese Government is being held over a barrel to deliver by the stridently selfis...

Someone much wiser that I once said that "the first casualty of war is truth". The problem is that as a child who was born in the ...

There is a concept in Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales' (the Moral Letters) which is hinted at, which happens as the result of the ci...