Loaded Dogma

No one has a bad word to say about Leslie Nassar, now that he is dead. (See Helen Razer at Crikey for a more traditional obituary.) He is...

View image | gettyimages.com There is a line that can be drawn, a lineage that can be traced, between a number of recent primal sc...

Every night as I'm going to bed I grab my tablet and go through a supper list of American poliblogs, in what has now become a firm or...

Following on from Alan Moran's sacking from the Institute of Public Affairs  for anti-Islam tweets, John Quiggin sticks the knife in ...

- ASADA have convinced Cronulla Sharks players to take a plea deal to admit guilt over the Stephen Dank drug saga, which means they only ...

Plain packaging is only the latest in a series of "nanny state" measures started in 1973 to curb the prevalence of tobacco sm...

It seems everybody hates Tony Abbott these days... well, almost everybody. Mike Seccombe makes the case in the Saturday Paper for the Ins...

Fairfax editorial bod Michael Short has a plea for the left today: please, everyone: you might not like the PM's budget, policies, ...

The 2014 budget has been and gone, and the strategy from the government has been simple, albeit it seems to have fooled the craven mainst...

Old mate Duncan Riley - a former Liberal Party apparatchik, but I try not to hold that against him - blogs from Thailand about why he t...

FiveThirtyEight has relaunched as the first of the New New Media wave, and the Old New Media has reacted with a range of emotions from d...

- On one hand, we have the right saying that the market will decide so we don't need anti-discrimination laws  to prevent gays having...

The Lawyers Guns & Money blog has been posting a bit the last few days on what they are calling the Fantasy New York Times Columni...

Big media news day today. Lucky we've still got some media left to report it. Graeme Wood has boned The Global Mail , with the obvio...

I am not a fan of the advent of fact-checking sites we have seen in this election campaign. This is not because fact checking is not neede...