I’m so cranky that the rest of the world is seeing Daniel Craig’s last ‘James Bond: No time to die’ movie before I do (a totally spoilt...

A generation generally refers to groups of people born within a 15 to 25-year span. It may also be defined by historic events. For...

My Saturday morning walking buddy suggested that I research the new television real crime series ‘Des’, that is about the serial killer...

The nerd in me gets so excited when I read descriptions like the following: “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by...

At a time when so many of us in Sydney and Victoria are going a little batty with lockdown, this weekend we were also reminded of the...

OK. I’m guessing that you aren’t addicted to illicit substances. Nor alcohol or over the counter prescription drugs, though that is a...

I covered some of the most remarkable – or sensational – love affairs in history, last week so this week I thought I’d follow through...

Would I love thee big and bold but oh so romantically as did the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in his 1632 commission of a marble tomb to...

Last week’s essay on the Axial Age highlighted the mystery of multiple, unconnected (pre-globalised) cultural occurrences in disparate...

Axial Age 2.0 COVID, climate change, economic uncertainty. We are presently in a period of ‘so what will happen next?’, the likes of...

Things that make me go ‘Grrrrrr’. It is strange to be in lockdown when so many cities in the world are approaching their post-lockdown,...