Just over two years ago, I was motivated to write a piece about the decline of religion in the Anglophone world, which was, of course, mostly about Australia, New Zealand,…
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In 2018, an estimated 570,000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer worldwide, and about 311,000 women died from the disease. Almost all cervical cancer cases (99%) are linked to infection with…
After last Friday’s failed attempt at getting my Covid mullet sorted out, I put the alarm on to wake me up at sparrow’s fart this morning to get to the…
Last year we had our first lockdown to help cut down the spread of Covid-19 and one of the enjoyable parts of the end of lockdown was getting rid of…
Portugal, a nation with a population of just over 10 million, like most countries in Europe, has suffered badly in the pandemic. One in ten of the population have been…
While compilation of this tenth instalment of the listing of corruption by federal and state coalition governments has been a slower process than the previous efforts1-9, it is also a…
The catch-phrase ‘keeping the bastards honest’ originally came from disaffected former Liberal member of Parliament, Don Chipp, who created the Australian Democrats in 1977, which he led as a senator…
Early in September, I wrote a piece with the rather obscure title ‘Antivaxxers don’t do irony’. Its main thesis was that antivaxxers do not seem to understand that the governments…
