Issue 162

..column over the years and regular readers will know it’s a love/hate thing anyway. Regulars will also know that the year drawing to a close always bothers me as my naturally sunny disposition is occluded by the clouds of general dissatisfaction with the state of Christmases past, present and future. (And I’m not a fucking…

..have used many of his own words from the book that was also published at the time. The invention of the printing press not only enabled the democratisation of knowledge but also saw the end of the age of everyday reliance on memory and deep symbolic representation. In a world without printing literacy is rather…

..however, have a patently mad Abbott and a quite peculiar Bishop. Corruption is relatively minor, flourishing at the local council level (how else does a flood plain become a housing estate after all) but is not the rampant pervasive cancer as in many countries near our borders. Governments change civilly and without rancour perhaps because…

Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. been blind-sided by A V Jennings. I realise that we are rather recently evolved creatures of imperfect knowledge, but I think that we should be able to do better in our beliefs than be extended versions of the followers of Joanna Southcott. This worthy lady passed away in 1814 after announcing…

.. is a Canadian citizen and Matt Canavan is an Italian citizen, claim that they did not know that had dual citizenship. Waters was born in Canada and moved to Australia as an infant. After Scott Ludlum, also another Green Senator discovered that he not actually given up his ability to carry both and Australian…