SHOULD Australia offer its 16-year-olds L-plate voting as well as L-plate driving? Yes, please, for all sorts of interesting reasons. I’d hoped to present the...
SHOULD Australia offer its 16-year-olds L-plate voting as well as L-plate driving? Yes, please, for all sorts of interesting reasons. I’d hoped to present the...
BARRY Jones phones with very bad news. David Button has been found dead in the back garden of the family’s home. From an overdose of...
STOCK market. Once upon a time that meant what it says: redolent with the smells of cattle and manure, a place for selling beef on...
I WAS infuriated by the announcement that a 14-year-old model would be striking those high-fashion poses on Australian catwalks, alongside the fully matured 15 and...
I SPENT much of last week talking to an extraordinary Indian about his country’s culture, economics and future. I read his columns for The Times...
I WAS surprised to receive a few congratulatory emails during the weekend. Not only were they a welcome change from the hate mail but it...
BARACK Obama is the Sidney Poitier of presidential politics. Not the Poitier who snarled “They call me MISTER Tibbs”, at bigoted Sheriff Rod Steiger (in...
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender Pretending I’m doing well My need is such I pretend too much I’m lonely but no one can tell...
IRRESPECTIVE of the political proclivities of the incumbent, day three is always a worry at the White House. This third day does not relate to...
"A stand may be made against the invasion of an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea” - Victor Hugo
I RECENTLY announced changing my name to Chlorophillip, a rechristening intended to emphasise my personal crusade on greenhouse gases.
JOAN Lindsay was ethereal, Sir Daryl constantly bad tempered. Imagine a Snow White denied six of her dwarfs and lumbered with a very big Grumpy....
IN an effort to improve my green credentials I have changed my name, by deed poll, to Chlorophillip Adams. This will boost my marketing efforts...
CAN the world give up this filthy habit? In particular can the US, the world’s most addicted nation, give up its 80 a day?
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