Still Life With Cat

Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) is a London-born, London-based novelist and screenwriter who has worked on, among other things, Doctor Who . He ha...

British journalist John Grimond in The Economist has, like Bill Bryson, swept into Australia for five or six weeks and taken it upon himse...

I don't use the word 'evil' much. Actually I try not to use it at all. But sometimes there just isn't any other word that w...

1) Had a birthday a week or two back. I am completely the wrong age to welcome birthdays. 2) Since I neither am nor have a mother, Mother...

I don't usually even send on those emails that do the rounds. But I've just received one I like so much I thought it belonged here. ...

... then you obviously haven't seen the subject line of today's online update of The Age that just arrived in my mailbox: Nixon, ...

Retired police officer Meg McGowan, on the 'Australians Against Child Beauty Pageants' Facebook page (my emphasis): I am a retired...

WHEN THEY SAY It's supposed to be like that. WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN IS I don't feel like driving back to your house and fixing ...

... is that when toxic fuckwittery and mindless, destructive, dangerous shite like American-style "beauty" pageants (ie competiti...

Can someone out there more clued-up than I in the ways of psychoanalysis give me some sort of explanation of the hysterical hype about The K...

Last night on 7.30 , Lindsay Tanner broke the hearts all over again of people who couldn't for the life of them understand, back in 2003...

Mr Abbott drank shots with fly-in, fly-out workers, played pool with the navy and got a loud cheer when he told a blonde perched at the bar ...

I read an interview not long ago with Christopher Hitchens in which the only point at which he became emotional and fragile about the fact t...

There have been some changes to the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, thus : This year five awards will be presented in the followi...

So, that thing that felt like a permanent lump in my throat? The one that (as an ex-smoker in her late fifties) I was starting to get vair v...

"People have not got over her knifing of Kevin Rudd" No, and they won't, either, for as long as formerly respectable and res...

Edit edit type type think think think. Except when I go out with friends, I'm living on rabbit food and microscopic servings of lean p...

Journalist Jacqueline Maley in today's Sydney Morning Herald : Although the sex between the two air force cadets was consensual, the ...

Perhaps she just doesn't like your children. Lots of love, Pav xxx* *See? Kisses! Love! Warmth! Empathy! And yet...