The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

At the risk of cementing my place as a curmudgeon, the National Conventions of the US political parties always struck me as thoroughly bizar...

The current Syrian refugee crisis in Europe is a tragedy. Should that sentence strike regular readers as a little trite, bear with me. I ...

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam died recently , at age 98. Predictable hagiographies followed, with cringe-inducing link titl...

"And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It i...

Look at these preening poseurs , parading their ostentatious compassion like a badge of their moral purity: Thousands of people have held ...

Not many people really understand the idea of reversion to the mean in the context of genetics. If it’s discussed at all, it’s usually in te...

I was in an English-themed pub on Friday night (in the US of A), watching the Australian Rules Football Grand Final. I don't know why, b...

In Australia, the Labor Government and Greens have been unhappy with the press coverage they've been receiving in various newspapers, ma...

Australia's former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was booted out as PM during his first term by Julia Gillard. Now that she got elected (by...